The most peaceful place on Earth
Kavoori, A. (2016) Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(2), pp. 116–118. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616672674. This piece is a short autoethnographic description of the author – an adopted…
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. Oxford Economic Papers 56, no. 4 (2004): 563–95. This article investigates the causes of civil war by analysing 79 civil wars which took place between 1966 and 1999. The authors…
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.…
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…
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 Challenge of Conflict-Affected Cities: Building Peace Through Architecture and Urban Design
Ensari, Elif, Sucuoglu, Gizem, Breivik-Khan, Håvard and Can Sucuoglu. 2016. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA, March, 2016. ResearchGate. Using the case study of…
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…
Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach
Rutsky, R. L. Film Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 12-23. This article interprets the “beach party films” of the late 1950s and early 1960s as rebellions against societal expectations and unrest. R. L. Rutsky argues…
Comedy and War
Maddocks, Melvin. The Sewanee Review 112, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 22-34. This article examines the relationship between comedy and war, seeking to understand why comedy is used so often in war narratives. It surveys a…