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Relative Peace in the Midst of Unrest: Guinean Women’s Peace Advocacy During the Mano River Wars
From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, three of Guinea’s neighbors—Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire—faced internal conflict that contributed...
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Wangari Maathai
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai (1940–2011) remains one of the most influential Africans in advancing global sustainability. In 2004, she received the Nobel...
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Wangari Maathai
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai (1940–2011) remains one of the most influential Africans in advancing global sustainability. In 2004, she received the Nobel...
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Victimhood dissociation and conflict resolution: evidence from the Colombian peace plebiscite
How does violence shape citizens’ preferences for conflict termination? The existing literature has argued that violence either begets sympathy for...
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Empathy, Love, and Peace
This chapter examines the narratives of four Buddhist monastics, three Buddhist monks, and one Buddhist nun. Some of the questions asked of them...
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Vandana Shiva: Biodiversity Campaigner of the Global South
Born in the Himalayas and growing up literally in the lap of nature, Vandana Shiva, grew to admire nature and respect it. She learnt her early...
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Consecrating Civil Society Elites in Europe: Examining Civil Society Prizes
Prize-giving is a common mechanism for the formation of social hierarchies. Although we find extensive studies of prizes in a wide range of social...
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Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools
Ever since the first elite business schools were founded in Europe and the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, they have enjoyed an...
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Peace Ecology in the Anthropocene
‘Peace ecologyEcology’ is a scientific approach that aims to build bridges between peace researchPeace research and environmental studies. In 2000,...
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Forced Migration, Modern Slavery, and the Evil of Shattered Dreams
Being a refugee may overlap with a person becoming a human trafficking victim. Intersection of vulnerabilities bring about evil related to this...
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Vandana Shiva: Biodiversity Campaigner of the Global South
Born in the Himalayas and growing up literally in the lap of nature, Vandana Shiva, grew to admire nature and respect it. She learnt her early...
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Indigenous Political Representation in Guatemala
Guatemala is a strongly multicultural country. According to different estimations, indigenous people represent among the 41% and 60% of the total...
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Beyond identity lines: women building peace in Northern Ireland and the Korean peninsula
This article explores the challenges and contributions of women in building and sustaining peace in protracted conflicts by conducting a comparative...
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Art of Peace: Cultural Practices and Peacebuilding in Mexico
The last decade has been a constant bloodshed inMexico MexicoBloodshed in Mexico due to drug warsDrug wars and as a consequence of the lack of an...
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An anatomy of the academic ranking of world universities (Shanghai ranking)
International academic rankings of research universities are widely applied and heavily criticised. Amongst the many international rankings, the...
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Nationalism and Terrorism
This chapter examines how ethno-nationalist sentiments remain active and prominent well after the establishment of peace processes in the case of ETA...
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Military Coup D’état, State of Anarchy, and the Future of Ethnic Armed Resistance Vis-à-Vis Reconciliation in Myanmar
After decades of catastrophic economic and political repression under military rule, the people of Myanmar were expecting normalcy in 2011, as the...
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