Tag: Institutions

Sadembouo, Etienne, Tadadjeu, Maurice. “The role of language in the process of constructing, preserving and reinforcing peace in Africa.” In Language policy and the promotion of peace, edited by Neville Edward Alexander, Arnulf con Scheliha, 47-58. University of South Africa, 2014.

This chapter discusses the role of language and its relationship to peacebuilding, peacekeeping and consolidating peace in Africa. Specifically, the chapter looks at Cameroon’s language policies and the ways in which…

Date: 6 June 2023
Category: Education Peace-Building

García Márquez, Gabriel, “The solitude of Latin America.”, The Nobel Prize, Dec 8, 1982.

This entry to the library contains a translation into English of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982. As a globally renowned Colombian author, most well-known for his…

Date: 19 April 2023
Category: Education Future Peace Media Storytelling

Graham, Michael F. “Conflict and sacred space in Reformation-era Scotland.” Albion 33, no. 3 (2001): 371-387.

This article discusses efforts on the part of the Reformation-era Church of Scotland to act as a peacemaker within Scottish communities. In particular, the Kirk opposed the hitherto broadly-accepted practice of…

Date: 16 January 2023
Category: Civil Society

Hills, Matt. “Cutting Into Concepts of ‘Reflectionist’ Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror.” In Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror, edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller, 107-123. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2011.

This essay, a chapter of the anthological work Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror, analyzes how torture films such as the Saw or Hostel franchises reflected the fears, views, and policies of post 9/11…

Date: 8 January 2023
Category: Media

Ensari, Elif, Sucuoglu, Gizem, Breivik-Khan, Håvard and Can Sucuoglu. 2016. “The Challenge of Conflict-Affected Cities: Building Peace Through Architecture and Urban Design.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA, March, 2016. ResearchGate.

Using the case study of Kabul, Afghanistan, this article argues for the use of architecture and urban planning as peacebuilding tools in conflict-affected cities. The authors explain that Kabul’s urban forms both…

Date: 3 January 2023
Category: Environment

Project for Public Spaces. “Placemaking and the Future of Cities.” (2012).

This report is a collaborative effort by the Project for Placemaking and UN-HABITAT to tackle the issues facing public space in the Global South and promote placemaking strategies as a possible solution. From urbicide…

Date: 3 January 2023
Category: Environment

Sapiano, J. et al. 2022. ‘I Wouldn’t Want to be a Gender Expert:’ Gender Experts in Peace Mediation

This article reviews the tensions between the art of mediation and the art of gender expertise that largely reflect the gendered power dynamics of peace mediation. It highlights that mediation is a broad and varying…

Date: 16 November 2022
Category: Gender Peace-Building

“The Stories.” United Nations. United Nations. Accessed November 7, 2022. https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands/stories.

In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the material this produced focused on the experiences of women in conflicts in terms of violence they have undergone. However, it…

Date: 7 November 2022
Category: Gender Peace-Building

Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. “Probing peace journalism: The discursive construction of blackness within the racial democracy of Colombia.” Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206.

Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. “Probing peace journalism: The discursive construction of blackness within the racial democracy of Colombia.” Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206. Peace journalism, the…

Date: 7 November 2022
Category: Media

Saul, Matthew. “Local Ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Restorative and Retributive Effects.” International Criminal Law Review 12, no. 3 (2012): 427-456.

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…

Date: 7 November 2022
Category: Conflict's Aftermath

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