Among the Ruins
Berman, Michael. New Internationalist (December 1987). In this article, philosopher Marshall Berman discusses urban blight, not from a scholarly perspective, but from a personal one. He reflects on returning to the…
Category: History
Singing Out of Pain: Protest Songs and Social Mobilization
Payerhim, Marek. The Polish Review 57, no. 1 (2012): 5-31. This article provides a fascinating history of protest songs and their connection to political opposition in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Protest songs were…
Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube
Jenzen, Olu, et al. In The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, edited by Aidan McGarry et al., 211-232. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. This article discusses how artists used…
How the Women of Liberia Fought for Peace and Won
Tavaana, September 17, 2019. https://tavaana.org/en/en/content/how-women-liberia-fought-peace-and-won. – NO LONGER AVAILABLE (CANCELLED) This website tells the tale of how women helped greatly bring about peace in…
Local Ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Restorative and Retributive Effects
Saul, Matthew. International Criminal Law Review 12, no. 3 (2012): 427-456. This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people responsible for the organisation of…
An assessment of Rwanda’s gacaca courts
Longman, Timothy. Peace Review 21, no. 3 (2009): 304-312. The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors…
The Elders
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2021) Available at: https://theelders.org/profile/ellen-johnson-sirleaf (Accessed: November 2, 2022) The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson…
The fall and rise of peace treaties
Fazal, Tanisha M. American Journal of International Law 108 (2014): 46-51. This article accounts for the evolution of the practice of peace treaties, which are commonly considered the first step towards building peace.…
Making peace in heaven and on earth: religious and legal aspects of the treaty between Ramesses II and Hattušili III
Goelet, Ogden Jr; Levine, Baruch A. 1997. in Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World The Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty is the earliest known surviving peace treaty (thought to be created 1259 BC). Drawn up after a…
Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories
Raaflaub , Kurt A. 2016. Raaflaub is a scholar who has taken great interest in the area of peace studies and ancient history, with this book being one of his most recent explorations. Concerned with the modern…