A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
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Failure in a Modern Utopia
Wells, H. G. In A Modern Utopia, 135-174, 1905 This chapter in H.G. Wells’ 1905 book A Modern Utopia discusses the possible failures in a modern Utopia. The book walks a very thin line between fictional and…
Young People, Situated Learning, and Peace Praxis at The Margins of Everyday Life
Ogunnusi, Michael. 2020. De Montfort University. This thesis thoroughly studies how we approach young people and peace. First, it reviews how peace is generally depicted as the absence of violence or as ‘deficit…
Peace at the Heart: A Relational Approach to Education in British Schools
Gee, David, Brooks, Ellis, and Cartwright, Isabel. 2022. Quakers in Britain. This report explains the need to teach peace in schools to actively support young people to learn not only academically but also to develop…
Making Noise and Getting Things Done: Youth Inclusion and Advocacy for Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar
Spalding, Savannah, Odgers-Jewell, Casey-Jade, Payne, Hayley, Mollica, Caitlin, & Berents, Helen. 2021. This report is a conjoined research project about youth’s inclusion in peacebuilding processes in Afghanistan,…
Public Trust as a Driver of State-Grassroots NGO Collaboration in China
Farid, May, and Chengcheng Song. Journal of Chinese Political Science 25, no. 4 (1 December 2020): 591–613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09691-7. Farid and Song’s article discusses how NGOs in China seek to gain…
Conflict, Peacebuilding and NGO Legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka
Walton, Oliver. Conflict, Security & Development 8, no. 1 (1 April 2008): 133–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800801977146. In this article, Walton uses three case studies of national NGOs in Sri Lanka to investigate…
Images of Africa: The UK Report
van der Gaag, Nikki, and Cathy Nash. 1987. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.imaging-famine.org/images_africa.htm. This report, a joint effort combining the research of the United Nations’ Food and…
In the balance? Civil society and the peace process 2002-2008
Walton, Oliver and Saravanamuttu, Paikiasothy. In Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, edited by Jonathan Goodhand, Benedikt Korf, Jonathan Spencer, 183-200. Oxon:Routledge, 2011.…
Electoral Resolution and Atmosphere / from Hope to Hostility
Bruter, Michael, and Sarah Harrison. 2020. In Inside the Mind of a Voter, 263–90. Princeton University Press. Reflecting on recent electoral developments, that have led to a lack of straightforward majorities and…