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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Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace–Or War
Anderson, Mary B. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. The book Do No Harm: How Aid can Support Peace- or War? is written by Mary Anderson. It is about the complicated relationship between war and peace, and…
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…
Transrational Peacebuilding Education to Reduce Epistemic Violence
Cremin, Hilary, Josefina EchavarrÍa, and Kevin Kester. 2018. Peace Review 30 (3):295-302 This academic paper begins by arguing that mainstream peace education focuses solely on the state level and is thus complicit in…
Peace Education, International Trends
Bermeo, Maria Jose. 2022. Journal: Encyclopaedia of Violence:459-466 This academic article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of Peace Education and the differences within the field. The paper…
Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging
al-Sabouni, Marwa. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021. 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…
The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space
McQuire, Scott. SAGE Publications, 2008. Google Books. This book argues that spatial and temporal experiences of urban life have been fundamentally changed by the advent of digital media, and thus it is architecture…
Spaces for Consumption
Miles, Steven. SAGE Publications, 2010. VLeBooks. This book theorizes that a post-industrial transformation is underway in which the citizen’s relationship to the contemporary city is being redefined by consumerism,…
The Concept of Place and Sense of Place in Architectural Studies
Najafi, Mina, and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff. International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 5, no. 8 (2011): 1054-1060. This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal…
The Idea of Home: The Architecture of War and Peace
Holdsworth, Pauline, host. IDEAS (podcast). June 16, 2022. 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…