Assessing World Vision’s “Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts” Workshops: A Comparative Analysis by Lisa Freeman Submitted to the School of International Service of American University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts In International Peace and Conflict Resolution Course Number: SIS 795.001 Course Title: Conf Analysis as Conf Res__ _____________________...

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...

Drawing on evidence from two case-study projects, this article identifies two types of conflict transformation approaches used by aid agencies in developing countries: promotive and pre-emptive. Recognizing that activities designed to promote linkage between groups often are ineffective in preventing conflict, the article explores how the second 'pre-emptive' approach seems to address shortcomi...

The self-declared Republic of Somaliland frequently features as a prominent example for ‘autonomous’ processes of peace-building and state-making. Although its population endured civil wars both before and after its unilateral declaration of independence in 1991, this internationally unrecognized de facto state enjoys not only relative peace but also a comparatively high level of overall securi...

Abstract Recent years have seen the acceleration of data- and evidence-based approaches in support peace processes, creating a renewed confidence that conflicts can be predicted, known, resolved, based on objective information about world. However, new technologies employed by conflict parties, stakeholders, those who aim to make or build also made processes less ascertainable, intelligible, pr...

This study focuses on “School Clubs and Peace-camp-sites”, which are the extra-curricular educational activities organized by schools in partnership with nongovernmental organizations ultimate objective of cultivating peace among young pupils. It shows how they can contribute to construction lasting making it possible promote knowledge, competences, attitudes values necessary bring changes thei...

This book is a collection of experiences and perceptions by senior British officials about their role in the Northern Ireland peace process. It does not take account of the long history of British association with Ireland and Northern Ireland, which has been extensively researched and analysed already. Nor does it contextualise the peace process within the historical tensions and difficulties t...

the author trys to investigate and study principles, objectives and nature of islamic government foreign policy within imam ali's school of thoughts. the focus is that which one, peace or war is the basis of his thought on the external affairs of a state. since he believes that peace and war are product of innate disposition and the original human nature both of them, are governing princip...

One of the biggest hurdles facing the field of peace journalism (PJ) is its vague definition. This paper proposes defining PJ as it operates on a spectrum, from passive to active. Through a review of extant PJ literature, this paper synthesizes current theory into an overarching, explicit concept, and calls for it to be further adopted and expanded. To conclude it considers potential advantages...