This academic article argues for an examination into the “intersectionality” of peace as a means of better understanding the dynamics of power structures and identities with regards to peacebuilding efforts. The text…
This text discusses the conflict between external and internal actors in memorialising peace by conducting a comparative analysis of memorials to the Srebrenica Massacre in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and the…
Drawing on feminist peace and conflict studies, this article situates peace in the everyday as an ontological disruption to traditional peace studies. This ‘microsociology’ of peace can be seen as a mundane experience…
This article argues that neoliberal peacebuilding focuses far too heavily on military, technical, and economic justice while often ignoring the need to ensure that any initiatives and institutions achieve social…
This text views peace operations through the lens of governance where the distribution of aid and resources is employed to both reinforce the values of the liberal peace and portray them as being universally applicable…
Echoing Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory, this source conceptualises imperialism as being separated into cores and peripheries, where there is tension between the core and the periphery as well as between…
This article advocates the study of relationality where interactions and relations between both internal and external actors are not “already established” but are, instead, co-constitutive. It asserts the need to move…
This field study utilises explores the use of para-social contact, the use of communications media to build seemingly-intimate personal connections between users and performers, to bring together communities in…
This text by John Mearsheimer is a foundational theoretical work in the field of International Relations and outlines the inherently conflictual nature of great power politics. The piece explores the enduring nature of…
This text is a strategy paper from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence and offers a defence-centered perspective on how states situate their national priorities within the broader concepts of peace and conflict.…