‘Murphy’ and Peace
Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose…
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE AND THE READING OF LITERATURE
Gordon, Haim. 1990. The Centennial Review 34, no. 4: 577–86. 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…
The (M)Other Battle of World War One: The Maternal Politics of Pacifism in Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others
Boxwell, D. A. 1993. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12, no. 1: 85–101. The text begins by relating the concept of motherhood to war, and, through references to the Iliad, establishes that there motherhood and…
The Tragedy of Peace: Political Meaning in Women Beware Women
Bromham, A. A. 1986. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 26, no. 2: 309–29. The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play with an astute awareness of the context of its…
Making Peace, Making Memory: Peacebuilding and Politics of Remembrance at Memorials of Mass Atrocities
Selimovic, Johanna Mannergren. 2013. Peacebuilding 1, no. 3: 334-348. This text discusses the conflict between external and internal actors in memorialising peace by conducting a comparative analysis of memorials to…
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…
Apartheid ended 29 years ago. How has South Africa changed?
Rachel Jones- Photos- Ilvy Njiokiktjien. 2019. National Geographic. This article, composed of written narratives as well as professional photographs, attempts to capture post-Apartheid South Africa. It examines the…
The parasocial contact hypothesis
Schiappa, Edward, Peter B. Gregg, and Dean E. Hewes. 2005. “The parasocial contact hypothesis.” Communication monographs 72, no. 1: 92-115. This paper introduces the concept of parasocial contact, where communication…
Nation, narration, unification? The politics of history teaching after the Rwandan genocide
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. 2009. Journal of Genocide Research 11, no. 1: 31-53. 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…
Peace in History
Gittings, John. 2016. In: Richmond, Oliver, Sandra Pogodda, and Jasmin Ramovic, eds. ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace.’ Springer: 21-31. Gittings examines the theoretical element…