Do Violent Protests Work?
Khandaker, Tamara, host. Wait, There’s More (podcast). June 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pcPQnpnQBaxvjRi679Ozx?si=a8ecae5588af48fb. This podcast, recorded at the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
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Can Protests Save Lives? How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS Crisis
Pettiford, Jordan, host. UnTextbooked (podcast). October 2021. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IWRSJ0ncakV3YRhSfxLgY?si=44f1cac3cc9d4c11 This podcast explores the grassroots activism which protested the prejudiced…
Reading Socio-Political and Spatial Dynamics through Graffiti in Conflict-Affect Societies
Vogel, B. et al. Third World Quarterly 41, no. 12 (2020): 1248-68 This article discusses the role of graffiti in conflict-affected areas, and how graffiti can be a lens to view peacebuilding efforts. Through four core…
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,…
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections from Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina
Chandra, Anita, and Joie Acosta. 2009. In The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections From Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina, 1st ed., 1–14. RAND…
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…
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.…
Uses of the End of the World: Apocalypse and Postapocalypse as Narrative Modes
Pitetti, Connor. Science Fiction Studies volume 44, no. 3 (November 2017), pp. 437-454. In this article Connor Pitetti distinguishes between apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels in science fiction, with the key…
Priming effects of a reconciliation radio drama on historical perspective-taking in the aftermath of mass violence in Rwanda
Bilali, Rezarta and Johanna Vollhardt. 2013. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49, no. 1: 144-151. This source is an article written by peace and violence psychology specialists Rezarta Bilali and Johanna…
Preventing Violent Extremism in Kenya through Value Complexity: Assessment of Being Kenyan Being Muslim
Khan, Anjum, Jose Liht, and Sara Savage. 2014. Journal of Strategic Security 7, no. 3: 1-26. This source is an academic paper published by three researchers from the University of Cambridge: Sara Savage of the…