The Stories
United Nations. United Nations. Accessed November 7, 2022. https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands/stories. In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the…
United Nations. United Nations. Accessed November 7, 2022. https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands/stories. In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the…
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…
Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206. Peace journalism, the attempt to enquire and write about the world, is a very appealing practice in Colombia. This article looks at…
Kalfeli, Naya, Christos Frangonikolopoulos, and Antonis Gardikiotis. Journalism23, no. 8 (2022): 1789-1806. This article focuses on the impact of journalism in Greece, both in shaping mindsets and in conforming to the…
Şahin, Sanem, and Christiana Karayianni. Media, culture & society42, no. 7-8 (2020): 1360-1376. This article deals simultaneously with journalists’ political and personal orientations and with the challenges that…
Sabala, Kizito. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 7, no. 1 (2017): 80-93. This article looks at the role of women in peace agreement negotiations, from which they have often been excluded or listened to without…
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism…
Herman, Peter C. 2018. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 41, no. 3: 165-193. Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The…
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 244–81. Indiana University Press. McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films of comedic director…
Gallagher, Rosemary. 2012. Studies in American Humor 26: 73-84. Gallagher synthesizes the use of humor in narratives of war as well as those of peace, through the lens of famous anti-war novelist Kurt Vonnegut. She…