Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding

Challenging the international peacebuilding evaluation discourse with qualitative methodologies.

Monitoring and evaluating international peacebuilding efforts have become more sophisticated over the past years, but still relies on managerial approaches that often do not capture the complexity of war, peace and the grey areas in between. The article argues that organizations should embrace qualitative approaches more widely and introduces ethnographic vignettes as one example to explain the...

Creating Space for Fresh Approaches to Peacebuilding

The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international and ecumenical centre that supports and promotes nonviolent approaches to conflict transformation. This is done through a combination of research and action that entails the strengthening of existing local capacities and enhancing preconditions for building peace.

Abstract - Space Interaction Discourse

Space Interaction Discourse Oskar Juhlin & Alexandra Weilenmann Titel: On movement, sound and radio talk in deer hunting Recently, there has been an increase in studies focusing on naturally occurring mobile activities. In this paper, we add to this growing body of work, by presenting a study of a highly mobile activity deer hunting. Deer hunting is a collaborative activity with a number of dif...

Perspectivizing Space in Bāŋlā Discourse

The paper attempts to conceptualize the production and comprehension of spatial perspectives as the synchronization of intentions and contentions in a linguistic discourse. In doing so, it investigates the acts of intending and contending in invoking and instantiating the categories. The paper explains perspective setting and taking in terms of intending and contending which are crucial in shap...

Mostar and MItrovica : constested grounds for peacebuilding