{"title":"Encounters, Institutions & Lessons: 25 Years after the Good Friday Agreement","authors":"James Headley, L. Tan","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2224249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2224249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47374554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Living Through It, Living After It: Personal Reflections on ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland”","authors":"J. Coulter, J. Duffy","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2218816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2218816","url":null,"abstract":"2023 is an important year in Northern Ireland, marking twenty-five years since the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland, at one point referred to as a place apart, such was the egregious impact of ongoing violence, is also a place where people tried to live life as normally as possible. This article opens a window into the experiences of living and working in a troubled Northern Ireland through the reflective and reflexive lens of a father and son, one whose life has been dedicated to peacebuilding through academic research, the other, born in 1991 as a ‘child of peace’ and educated in the integrated school sector. The article takes the reader on a pathway through the challenges and opportunities encountered through these two diverse but connected biographies.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44576864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia, Radical Lessons from Peace Activists","authors":"Heather Devere","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2218814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2218814","url":null,"abstract":"Peace Action is a small book by radical activist in the Pacific working toward a “decolonized Oceania and East Asia.” While focused on the Pacific Ocean/Te Moana Nui-A-Kiwi, this has relevance for peace and resistance movements as it provides information about just what is involved with being an activist, many original and creative strategies, tactics and actions that can move social justice forward in a number of different causes.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49635431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We Shout at Each Other, But We’re Not Shooting Each Other”: An Interview with Reverend Harold Good on the Decommissioning of the Provisional Irish Republican Army","authors":"Matther B. Fuller","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2218823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2218823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43812978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Steel Shutter Revisited: The Importance of Encounter","authors":"Michael R. Montgomery","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2222688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2222688","url":null,"abstract":"The author provides a personal perspective on the legacy of the Troubles and relevance of the Steel Shutter project, a community-based initiative aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation. Drawing on their experience as a peacemaker and psychotherapist, the author emphasizes the transformative power of human encounter and highlights unique cross-community initiatives, which have brought people from different communities together. The author argues that such initiatives have played an important role in building bridges between divided communities and promoting empathy, understanding, and healing. The author also notes the challenges posed by the language of polarization, dehumanization, and othering in contemporary political discourse, emphasizing the need to protect and promote human encounter in the face of such challenges.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48134376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested Forgiveness: Unsolicited Amnesty and the Reintegration of ‘Repentant’ Bandits in Northwest Nigeria","authors":"Folahanmi Aina","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2208539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2208539","url":null,"abstract":"Banditry poses a serious threat to lives and livelihoods in parts of Nigeria’s Northwest and Northcentral regions. This has resulted in the deaths of thousands and the displacement of several others. Both the federal government and the affected subnational state governments have responded to this threat by deploying different measures aimed at bringing an end to it. One of such measures adopted by some subnational governments has involved granting amnesty to so called ‘repentant’ bandits. This approach has failed. While several works articulate the origins, nature, character, and trends of banditry, this essay focuses on the controversial issue of amnesty for bandits in Nigeria’s Northwest region. It interrogates the rationale behind the decision to grant amnesty to bandits and why this has failed. Three fundamental things are required for amnesty to yield the desired results within fragile and conflict affected settings, yet they remain absent in the case of Northwest Nigeria. These include the need for individual risk assessment for ‘repentant’ bandits; the buy-in of the affected local communities throughout the entire process; and third, the need to incorporate the voices of victims, including women and girls. The consequences of attempting to reintegrate ‘repentant’ bandits in Northwest Nigeria, in the absence of these, guarantee the repeated failure of such initiatives.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44779914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa","authors":"Goutam Karmakar, R. Chetty","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2208519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2208519","url":null,"abstract":"The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic injustice occurs when dominant structures in knowledge production eliminate and silence the epistemic integrity of the sufferers, as well as how their contributions to the environmental knowledge system have been undermined, misinterpreted, and curtailed in discursive practices. In this context, the paper explores how a decolonial ecological turn and practices in South Africa can integrate environmental and development policies for sustainability and pluriversal peacebuilding.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47553925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should Conflict Research End after Peace Achieved? The Case of Aceh","authors":"Edwin M. B. Tambunan","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2203086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2203086","url":null,"abstract":"A large body of literature focusing on the Aceh conflict now exists as a result of the intellectual journey to comprehend Aceh separatism since it began in 1976. This essay discusses the evolution of research on the Aceh conflict and argues that research should continue, even though peace has prevailed since 2005. Aside from providing opportunities to obtain new evidence to challenge conventional explanations, conflict research also provides opportunities to acquire knowledge and wisdom from the past to support long-term peacebuilding. Research should be expanded, particularly on agendas that have received little attention but will significantly contribute to preserving collective memory, preventing recurring conflict, and handling conflict trauma.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44863064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Syrian Civil War and Credible Commitment Problems","authors":"C. Harvey","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2196942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2196942","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses a key challenge in bringing about peace in civil war: credible commitment problems. Utilizing the ‘perfect’ example of the Syrian Civil War, it illuminates upon why they are challenging and therefore require solutions. The Syrian Civil War will inevitably end in military victory for the Assad regime, though it nevertheless supplies evidence that credible commitment problems are significant hindrances to conflict termination.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding Peace at the Chalice Well, Glastonbury: An Exploration of Folklore, Belief, Landscape, and Sacred Water at a British Holy Well","authors":"Claire Slack","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2218813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2218813","url":null,"abstract":"The intersections of peace and heritage have long been discussed in academia, but these discussions are often focused on the aftermath or the experiences of violence and conflict. There has been less written about heritage sites as places of positive peace, where visitors can connect with more ethereal aspects of inner peace, wellbeing and mindfulness. Many heritage sites allow visitors an opportunity to experience a place of peacefulness that is purposefully free of structural violence or to experience feelings of inner peace through the calm, serene nature of these sites. The Chalice Well is a holy chalybeate 1 well and World Peace Garden set in the heart of Glastonbury, a town well known for its eclectic spirituality and rich layers of history and folklore. This site has been attracting seekers of peace, wellness and the sacred for over three hundred years. This paper explores the intersections of folklore, wellbeing, landscape, sacrality, and the curation of peace at this unique heritage site, from medieval legend and sacred spa waters to more contemporary examinations of peace and sacrality through landscape design and the promotion of spiritual tourism and pilgrimage.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45355285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}