This article discusses the impact of ethnic conflict in Myanmar on the country’s language and education policies through data gathered over nine months of fieldwork in 2011. The article begins by contextualising the…
In this article, Mary Amanda Stewart reflects on how classroom activities centred around the refugee experience informed her teaching of refugee students during an English language summer literacy program. Stewart…
This article published in an online edition of national newspaper The Irish Times describes a survey of attitudes towards the unification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, using a sample population from…
In this short piece, Buthpitiya is introducing an extremely interesting nuance in Conflict Resolution. There is a tendency for people to think that peace automatically has positive meanings and implications. In the…
This piece is a short autoethnographic description of the author – an adopted Cambodian child who grew up in Southern America – coming back to a memorial place and remembering the violence of the Khmer Rouge during the…
Marc Augé’s book directly challenges the ways we visualise our reality. He encourages us to think of place and space as something that is different from the straightforward idea we normally have of it. Usually, we do…
This report adds to the literature on peace education by highlighting the importance of formal schools in providing knowledge and skills but also in shaping social and cultural values, norms, attitudes, dispositions,…
The article begins by setting out the context of Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement, arguing that the region had experienced a top-down peace process conducted primarily at the level of state…
Written at the beginning of the pandemic, this article presents a framework of questions to guide future research on how Covid-19 has impacted the perception, use and design of public space. The authors hypothesize…
This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal scholarship on the concept of sense of place. Sense of place, i.e., the human relationship to a geographical site, not only plays a vital role…