Peace at the Intersections| peacepolicy.nd.edu
Over the course of the last few decades, intersectionality has been an increasingly adopted framework within peace studies. Generated out of the insights of Black feminist thinking, intersectionality is a powerful lens for analyzing oppression, domination, and many forms of violence in the contemporary world. Though there are many debates about how to define intersectionality […]| Peace Policy
In the End of Peacekeeping (Penn Press 2024), I argue that the foundational thinking and practices of United Nations (UN) are patriarchal, colonial and martial and that as a result, abolishing peacekeeping is the only way forward. The book proposes that peacekeeping is an epistemic power project. What does this mean? Peacekeeping can be simply […]| Peace Policy
Quite literally, values determine ‘what is worth fighting for.’ When fighting entails a willingness to kill and/or be killed, we must take codes of valuation seriously. My essay explores how dominant value codes – and the emotional investments and power relations they generate – operate at the intersection of conflicts.| Peace Policy
Building peace through theatre is not easy, and its effects are neither immediately nor readily evident.| Peace Policy
The use, development and ambivalences of photography are widely debated, especially considering the digital revolution.| Peace Policy
ᏅᏩᏙᎯᏯᏓ. Nvwadohiyada. What is peace, and what does it have to do with poetry?| Peace Policy
Photo: Eastern Mennonite University| Peace Policy
Cities have been targeted since time immemorial, evidenced by the plunder and pillage of ancient cities such as Carthage—one of the most powerful trading and commercial centers from 650 B.C.E. to 146 B.C.E.—that was razed to ground by Roman military forces. During the Thirty Years’ War (1614-1648), one of the longest in European history, the city of Magdeburg was sacked by the Imperial Army.| Peace Policy
In responding to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of war in cities, it is crucial to pay attention to every individual death, injury, and incident of destruction and also to indirect harm to the collective population and its shared spaces—to the very fabric of the city.| Peace Policy
The city as a unit is the expression of a sum greater than its parts: homes, centers of community and culture, roads to work and school, infrastructure and architecture, and the people living there; it is both political and politicized. The city is politicized in the act(s) of construction, destruction, and reconstruction, and political in its relevance to the state and, increasingly, to the international. The destruction of the city by modern warfare produces and perpetrates multiple forms o...| Peace Policy
Photo: Tatyana Tkachuk / Wikimedia Commons| Peace Policy
