“Emancipatory peacebuilding: critical responses to (neo)liberal trends” was written by Charles Thissen as a chapter in Critical issues in peace and conflict studies: Peace, theory and pedagogy, which was edited by…
“Towards a Human Security Approach to Peacebuilding is a research brief written by Madoka Futamura, Edward Newman, and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, supported by the United Nations, considering how the concept of human…
“Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka is a book written by Jeremy Armon and Liz Philipson, discussing war and peace in Sri Lanka. The authors make a comparison between the war in Sri Lanka and the…
The article “Rescuing Peacebuilding? Anthropology and Peace Formation” is written by Olivier Richmond, and compares the similarities and differences between the approaches of international relations and anthropology to…
This article reviews the tensions between the art of mediation and the art of gender expertise that largely reflect the gendered power dynamics of peace mediation. It highlights that mediation is a broad and varying…
In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the material this produced focused on the experiences of women in conflicts in terms of violence they have undergone. However, it…
The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors examining the processes in retrospect, adds nuance to this…
The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson Sirleaf, the first ever female president in Liberia – and in the whole African continent. She is a figurehead for the…
This article accounts for the evolution of the practice of peace treaties, which are commonly considered the first step towards building peace. After defining the concept of the peace treaty, and correcting…
In this article, Roxani Krystalli and Philipp Schulz explore the practices of love and care that sit alongside the experiences of harm in armed conflicts. They build on interdisciplinary literature while they…