The solitude of Latin America
García Márquez, Gabriel, 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…
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Harassment and Intimidation of Parliamentary Candidates in the United Kingdom
Collignon, Sofia, and Wolfgang Rüdig. 2020. The Political Quarterly 91 (2): 422–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12855. The article examines the peacefulness of British elections by reviewing the volume, nature…
Conflict and sacred space in Reformation-era Scotland
Graham, Michael F. 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…
Cutting Into Concepts of ‘Reflectionist’ Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror
Hills, Matt. 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…
The Challenge of Conflict-Affected Cities: Building Peace Through Architecture and Urban Design
Ensari, Elif, Sucuoglu, Gizem, Breivik-Khan, Håvard and Can Sucuoglu. 2016. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA, March, 2016. ResearchGate. Using the case study of…
Placemaking and the Future of Cities
Project for Public Spaces (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…
‘I Wouldn’t Want to be a Gender Expert:’ Gender Experts in Peace Mediation
Sapiano, J. et al. 2022. 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…
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…
Probing peace journalism: The discursive construction of blackness within the racial democracy of Colombia
Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206. Peace journalism, the attempt to enquire and write about the world, is a very appealing practice in Colombia. This article looks at…
Local Ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Restorative and Retributive Effects
Saul, Matthew. 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…