Emancipatory peacebuilding
Thiessen, C. (2011). Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies, 115-143. “Emancipatory peacebuilding: critical responses to (neo)liberal trends” was written by Charles Thissen as a chapter in Critical issues in…
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Towards a human security approach to peacebuilding
Futamura, M., Newman, E., & Tadjbakhsh, S. (2010). Towards a Human Security Approach to Peacebuilding is a research brief written by Madoka Futamura, Edward Newman, and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, supported by the United…
Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka
Philipson, L., & Lanka, S. S. A. o. S. (1998). Conciliation Resources. “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.…
Rescuing peacebuilding? Anthropology and peace formation
Richmond, O. P. (2018). Global Society, 32(2), 221-239. The article “Rescuing Peacebuilding? Anthropology and Peace Formation” is written by Olivier Richmond, and compares the similarities and differences between the…
‘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…
An assessment of Rwanda’s gacaca courts
Longman, Timothy. Peace Review 21, no. 3 (2009): 304-312. The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors…
The Elders
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2021) Available at: https://theelders.org/profile/ellen-johnson-sirleaf (Accessed: November 2, 2022) The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson…
The fall and rise of peace treaties
Fazal, Tanisha M. American Journal of International Law 108 (2014): 46-51. This article accounts for the evolution of the practice of peace treaties, which are commonly considered the first step towards building peace.…
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole
Ragandang, Primitivo Cabanes. 2022. Peacebuilding 10, no. 3: 265-277. This piece discusses the interactions between academic peace practice and practitioners who work in the field building peace. The author discusses…