Building for Hope is Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni’s sequel to The Battle for Home, which examines how architecture and urban planning lead to the civil war and urbicide in Syria. In this book, al-Sabouni turns her…
This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal scholarship on the concept of sense of place. Sense of place, i.e., the human relationship to a geographical site, not only plays a vital role…
The article outlines how cooperation in cross-border ecosystems management can support the peacebuilding process through the case study of Israel and Jordan. After the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty of 1994, both states…
This article examines the failings of the Dayton Agreement and how the formalized peace accord has perpuated conflict in an increasingly fragile region. The text goes further by seeking to apply the lessons learned…
This paper introduces the concept of parasocial contact, where communication media provides users with a seemingly-intimate personal connection with a performer, and highlights the role that media can play in both…
This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are oftentimes excluded from the very discussions of violence and reconciliation that most affect them. Colombian youth are interviewed and…
This text, Gordon Allport’s “The Nature of Prejudice”, forms the bedrock of intergroup contact theory. The book introduces the concepts of prejudice and how it is formed between groups in conflict and argues that, if…