The Work of EAPPI in Palestine
Pax Palestine Podcast, podcast audio, March 30, 2021. https://paxpalestinepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1727861/8109296-1-the-work-of-the-eappi-in-palestine The podcast episode comes from PAX, a Dutch peacemaking…
Category: History
Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen: Experiences of International Conciliation for a New Generation of Peacemakers
Bennett, Anne. London: Quaker Books, 2020. Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen explores the recent history of Quaker peacebuilding efforts, the principles it is based on and its specific strengths. Much of this…
The role of language in the process of constructing, preserving and reinforcing peace in Africa
Sadembouo, Etienne, Tadadjeu, Maurice. In Language policy and the promotion of peace, edited by Neville Edward Alexander, Arnulf con Scheliha, 47-58. University of South Africa, 2014. This chapter discusses the role of…
Great men and straight men?
Parfitt, Richard. In Musical culture and the spirit of Irish nationalism, 1848–1972. 59-79. Routledge, 2019. In this chapter, Richard Parfitt examines the use of music by different nationalist factions in Ireland…
Sports promotion and the construction of ‘Irish’ identity: Nationalism, social exclusion and the Gaelic Athletic Association
Somerville, Ian, David Mitchell, and Owen Hargie. In Public relations, society and the generative power of history, pp. 173-189. Routledge, 2019. This article examines the role that the popular Irish sporting…
Language, nationality and cultural identity in the Irish Free State, 1922-7: the Irish Statesman and the Catholic Bulletin reappraised
O’Callaghan, Margaret. Irish Historical Studies 24, no. 94 (1984): 226-245. In this article, Margaret O’Callaghan takes a closer look at the creation of an Irish national identity in the early years of the Free State.…
Three Stories
Luis Borges, Jorge, The New Yorker, Dec 30, 1966 This entry to the library from The New Yorker is a collection of three short works of fiction by the South American author Jorge Luis Borges, with the first two…
History, Myth, and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina
Britton, R. K. The Modern Language Review 74, no. 3 (1979): 607–16. ‘‘History, Myth and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina” is an article written by R. K Britton and published in The Modern Language Review on the…
Conflict and sacred space in Reformation-era Scotland
Graham, Michael F. Albion 33, no. 3 (2001): 371-387. This article discusses efforts on the part of the Reformation-era Church of Scotland to act as a peacemaker within Scottish communities. In particular, the Kirk…
Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging
al-Sabouni, Marwa. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021. Building for Hope is Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni’s sequel to The Battle for Home, which examines how architecture and urban planning lead to the civil war and…