Journal• ISSN: 1082-7307
Peace and Conflict Studies
Nova Southeastern University
About: Peace and Conflict Studies is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Peace and conflict studies & Conflict resolution. It has an ISSN identifier of 1082-7307. Over the lifetime, 266 publications have been published receiving 2040 citations.
Topics: Peace and conflict studies, Conflict resolution, Peacebuilding, Mediation, Conflict analysis
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TL;DR: Zelizer et al. as discussed by the authors used community arts-based processes to bring together identity groups through sharing common cultural experiences, raising awareness about past suffering, and engaging communities in creative projects.
Abstract: Throughout the world, community arts-based processes have become an essential component of peacebuilding work in societies experiencing severe conflicts. Both during a conflict and in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, community based arts processes can be an especially effective tool to bring together identity groups through sharing common cultural experiences, raising awareness about past suffering, and engaging communities in creative projects. In this research project, the author spent fourteen months in Bosnia-Herzegovina researching the use of community arts-based peacebuilding efforts both during the war and in the post-conflict stage. This paper provides an overview the research and offers several conclusions on the role of arts in peacebuilding within Bosnia-Herzegovina with the hopes that these findings have relevance for other regions and the field in general. BIO: Craig Zelizer is completing his Ph.D. at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and is a Program Director with the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT). His areas of research/expertise include working with youth from violent conflict regions, civil society development and capacity building in transitional societies, program evaluation and design, and arts and peacebuilding. He lived and worked for over five years in several countries in Central and Southeastern Europe, including Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has studied improvisational theater and tries to incorporate artistic processes within his work. He may be contacted at czelizer@conflicttransformation.org www.conflicttransformation.org
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TL;DR: This article investigated perceptions of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), particularly focusing on understandings of, and the links between, truth, justice, and reconciliation.
Abstract: This study investigates perceptions of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), particularly focusing on understandings of, and the links between, truth, justice, and reconciliation. Forty-five semistructured interviews were conducted at three research sites in Liberia. Findings indicate that although most Liberians agreed with the TRC in principle, most of those who followed its proceedings saw major problems in its implementation, harming perceptions of reconciliation. Participants expressed concerns that the Commission had failed to discover the full truth of wartime abuses, that the truth that was discovered was not told in the right way, and that there had been problems implementing justice. The data indicates that societies recovering from violence and suffering must think carefully about how to revisit their pasts. In order for a truth commission to have a positive impact, it must ensure that truth is told in a reconciliatory fashion, and that its justice-based strategy enjoys popular support.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for analyzing the circumstances under which mediation may contribute to peace-building is presented, focusing on contextual and perceptual dimensions, arguing that mediation, properly utilized, can achieve not just a settlement of a conflict, but facilitate, in the longer run, a full transformation of relations.
Abstract: The paper considers the nature and characteristics of peace-building as an approach to conflict. It suggests that mediation should be seen as a particularly important aspect of peace-building efforts, and one that may be used at different phases of a conflict. The paper develops a framework for analyzing the circumstances under which mediation may contribute to peace-building. The framework lays emphasis on contextual and perceptual dimensions. The paper argues that mediation, properly utilized, can achieve not just a settlement of a conflict, but facilitate, in the longer run, a full transformation of relations. Any successful program of peacebuilding requires some form of mediation.
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TL;DR: The world clearly needs some new ways of thinking about old problems and new way of acting if we are going to survive into the 21st century as mentioned in this paper, therefore, it is vital that students of peace and conflict work out ways of harnessing the creative imagination of everyone so that all peoples can envisage a positive future and ways of realizing that future This imagining cannot be narrow It has to be broad, inclusive, interdisciplinary and systemic but it has to begin if we have a viable future.
Abstract: The world clearly needs some new ways of thinking about old problems and new ways of acting if we are going to survive into the 21st century It is vital, therefore, that students of peace and conflict work out ways of harnessing the creative imagination of everyone so that all peoples can envisage a positive future and ways of realizing that future This imagining cannot be narrow It has to be broad, inclusive, interdisciplinary and systemic but it has to begin if we are to have a viable future In relation to this imaging, peace and conflict theorists need to learn from evolutionary theorists if they are to play a significant part in global survival In the first place, this means endeavoring to gather the wisdom of many peoples and traditions since without this our understanding of the way the world works will always be partial and our normative prescriptions always biased
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |