In this chapter, Shinzen Young fleshes out a historically contingent definition of mindfulness. It is apparent that mindfulness needs to be defined with respect to its two sides: the practical and the theoretical. The…
This website tells the tale of how women helped greatly bring about peace in Liberia, involuntarily revolutionising conceptions of gender and femininity in Western Africa. Tired of sitting down and watch everyone…
This document sums up how education about peace is a primary interest to academic scholars. They shed light on how cyberspace can be used for meaningful and peaceful purposes. To be more specific, it states that peace…
This text offers a strong, introductory overview of how the primary schools of International Relations conceptualize “peace”. Among the prominent visualizations of peace are that of Realism, where peace simply refers…
This article examines the notion of peace studies as a discipline that is dominated by female scholars and aims to examine this phenomenon. It notes a correlation between sexism and militarism and identifies the…
This text explores the personal experiences of its author, Haim Gordon, as an educator, recalling an instance where he was called to teach Jewish and Arab students in Israel in a project called, “Education for Peace on…
This paper illustrates how history is used in order to build peace, focusing on the Rwandan Genocide as an example as to how the narration of history by government officials leads to unification of a nation state from…