Comedy and War
Maddocks, Melvin. The Sewanee Review 112, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 22-34. This article examines the relationship between comedy and war, seeking to understand why comedy is used so often in war narratives. It surveys a…
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Horror Movies With Mom
Chaney, Michael. Prairie Schooner 90, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 101-110. This article is a personal essay examining the author’s relationship with his mother via the horror films they watched together. The essay uses…
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Narratives of Peace and Conflict
Firchow, Pamina and Roger Mac Ginty. 2016. Politics 36, no. 3: 308-321. This article investigates and outlines differences that arise in visualizations of peace depending on the conceptual understanding of peace…
The Politics of Everyday Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland
Marijan, Branka. 2017. Peacebuilding 5, no. 1: 67-81. This text offers an analysis of the status of peace in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 years following the signing of the Dayton Accords, the…
Everyday Peace: Bottom-Up and Local Agency in Conflict-Affected Societies
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2014. Security Dialogue 45, no.6: 548-561. This text explores the concept of an everyday peace, the routinized practices and interactions that bridge gaps in divided communities. It analyzes a series…
A Post-Liberal Peace: Eirenism and the Everyday
Richmond, Oliver P. 2009. Review of International Studies 35, no. 3: 557-580. This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of peace as being the…
Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City
McKnight, Martina and Lisa Smyth. 2013. The Sociological Review 61, no. 2: 304-320. This article introduces the concept of “everyday peace”, small-scale individual level interactions and coping mechanisms that serve to…
An Embodied Everyday Peace in the Midst of Violence
Berents, Helen. 2015. Peacebuilding 3, no. 2: 1-14. This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are often excluded from the very discussions of violence and reconciliation that most…
Care as Everyday Peacebuilding
Vaittinen, Tiina, Amanda Donohoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bara Omarsdottir, and Sanam Roohi. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 194-209. This article investigates the notion of care as a power relation, with the embodiment of…
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…