Care as Everyday Peacebuilding
Vaittinen, Tiina, Amanda Donohoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bara Omarsdottir, and Sanam Roohi. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 194-209. This article investigates the notion of care as a power relation, with the embodiment of…
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Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation
Lipschutz, Ronnie D. 1998. Social Justice 25, no. 4: 5-19. This article argues that neoliberal peacebuilding focuses far too heavily on military, technical, and economic justice while often ignoring the need to ensure…
Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda
Paluck, E. L. 2009. Journal of personality and social psychology, 96(3), 574. This field study utilises explores the use of para-social contact, the use of communications media to build seemingly-intimate personal…
Institutionalizing enemies: The consequences of reifying projection in post-conflict environments
Murer, Jeffrey Stevenson. 2010. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 15, no. 1: 1-19. This article examines the failings of the Dayton Agreement and how the formalized peace accord has perpuated conflict in an…
Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Government of the Netherlands. 2021. government.nl. Accessed January 27, 2022. https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/post-conflict-reconstruction. This text is the official “Post-Conflict…
Peace agreements and women’s political rights following civil war
Reid L. (2021) Journal of Peace Research. 58(6) This article explores the consequences of peace agreements being gender-inclusive and how this practice actively promotes gender standardization. Reid analyses a set of…
Islamic Fundamentalism and Women’s Economic Role: The Case of Iran
Bahramitash, Roksana. (2003) International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16, no. 4 This article debunks general assumptions that post-war Iran, whose politics are closely intertwined with religion, would…