This article is a provocative essay on the topic of educational appli‐ cations of shareable interfaces, with a focus on the use of multitouch interactive tabletops in peacemaking school initiatives. Based on the already researched affordances of tabletops in education, as well as promising empirical results from the limited application of this technology in peacemaking contexts, the authors of ...

This article describes an empirical investigation of technology-enhanced peacemaking in a conflict-stressed school environment. The peacemaking intervention required students in conflict-laden groups to collaborate on various game-like learning activities on a multitouch interactive tabletop, over the span of three weeks. Student interviews and video observations provided evidence that tabletop...

Abstract With the rise of populist leaders around world, populism's impact on foreign policy and international affairs has come into focus. Adding to this literature, we propose concept ‘populist peacemaking’, in which key tenets populism, style substance, are projected onto sphere mediation. We offer an analytical framework for understanding peacemaking consisting three features. Firstly, is c...

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

The subject of religion in political conflict is vast, and it is not possible to do justice to it in these few pages. Fortunately, scholars, political analysts and policymakers can refer to two extraordinary new studies, Marc Gopin‟s, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking, [1] and R. Scott Appleby‟s The Ambivalence of the Sacred, [2] for comprehens...