This website tells the tale of how women helped greatly bring about peace in Liberia, involuntarily revolutionising conceptions of gender and femininity in Western Africa. Tired of sitting down and watch everyone…
This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people responsible for the organisation of mass killings, as well as individual criminals in isolated villages. Saul…
The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors examining the processes in retrospect, adds nuance to this…
The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson Sirleaf, the first ever female president in Liberia – and in the whole African continent. She is a figurehead for the…
This article accounts for the evolution of the practice of peace treaties, which are commonly considered the first step towards building peace. After defining the concept of the peace treaty, and correcting…
Previous Classics scholarship studied peace in the subsection of war and not within its own independent school of thought, despite “peace” sources (such as truces and democracy) making up a lot of classical…
A very good resource for both general peace studies and classic peace studies. Gittings’ aim is to re-examine the way peace is perceived and give arguments for how peace studies should be understood, as well as proving…
A study of Merleau-Ponty89’s phenomenology in his novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front as a realistic and antiwar portrayal of the horrors of conflict, that instigates in its readers the ever-present threat of…
Viano addresses the debate generated by ‘Life is Beautiful’ regarding what constitutes adequate treatment and respect towards serious topics such as the Holocaust. He argues for the need to explore new forms of…
An investigation into Kubrick’s Middle- European origins, filmmaking style and choice of sources to explore his resent of the Holocaust as a topic for his films. The article examines how his masterpieces (Clockwork…