Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence

Paths to Peacebuilding: Amnesty and the Niger Delta Violence

This mixed-method analysis of three Nigerian states explores the ways in which a major policy shift has produced short-term peace outcomes in a vastly contested terrain entailing conflicting interests. The central argument of "Paths to Peacebuilding," is that disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration can create peace in resource-conflicted societies when there is governmental will and comm...

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Socio-Cultural Bases of Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Africa

This series focuses on the interface between indigenous culture and conflict resolution and peacebuilding. African culture, viewed as knowledge, practices and institutions, does not form a large part of the tools and mechanisms for resolving conflict and building peace in Africa. This is due to the prominence of external initiatives of conflict resolution and peace initiatives based on liberal ...

Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at The China Tobacco Museum.

Seen through the prism of public health, the cigarette industry is an apparatus of death. To those who run it, however, it is something more prosaic: a workplace comprised of people whose morale is to be shepherded. Provisioning employees of the cigarette industry with psychic scaffolding to carry out effective daily work is a prime purpose of the China Tobacco Museum. This multistoried exhibit...

Modeling amidst the Microtheories

Integrating qualitative reasoning with large-scale knowledge bases provides new challenges. This paper outlines work in progress on developing a new model formulation system to support qualitative reasoning via compositional modeling that can operate in an environment with over a million available facts. Three ideas are discussed: Exploiting microtheories for modeling, using non-monotonic infer...

Mostar and MItrovica : constested grounds for peacebuilding