“Towards a Human Security Approach to Peacebuilding is a research brief written by Madoka Futamura, Edward Newman, and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, supported by the United Nations, considering how the concept of human…
“Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka is a book written by Jeremy Armon and Liz Philipson, discussing war and peace in Sri Lanka. The authors make a comparison between the war in Sri Lanka and the…
This podcast episode provides an introduction to the history and politics of urbicide. Defined as the deliberate “killing” of a city, the term urbicide is often used to describe the military strategy of urban…
This article proposes the paradigm of Peace Ecology, a theoretical framework for environmental peacebuilding. Kyrou views the current approach to environmental peacebuilding as a more collaborative, holistic, and…
This brief introduction to peace literature explains the main tenets and concepts used in the burgeoning field. Author Antony Adolf argues that peace literature as a genre uses the subgenre of tragicomedy to evoke…
This article is in a response to the phenomenon of student conflict and violence that occurs in universities and further argues for the development of peace education to be based on jurisprudential inquiry, which is a…
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…
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…
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…
This article focuses on the impact of journalism in Greece, both in shaping mindsets and in conforming to the political orientations of different periods, focussing on the subject of immigration. The article uses…