{"title":"Khadi Marigolds for the Martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh (India)","authors":"N. Khetrapal","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2188114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2188114","url":null,"abstract":"Folklorists have long studied the nature of ephemeralities in a range of vernacular responses to tragic events. This paper extends the scope of ephemeralities by arguing that the tangible representations, such as buildings and objects, are important anchors for socially reconstructing historical events. Focusing on the site of a cold-blooded genocide in India—Jallianwala Bagh—the present analysis transcends a predominant western frame of reference to highlight the imperativeness of preserving the trauma site, as it happened. The analysis reveals that a critical esthetic aspect of the site is the tangible absence of bodily ephemerality—an aspect that is intricately tied to martyrdom as opposed to victimhood. With the rise of transgressions that potentially rupture esthetics of memorial sites, it becomes essential to look for alternate tangible representations that transcend the spatial confines of the trauma sites. The quest ends with Khadi Marigolds that embody the essence of Jallianwala Bagh massacre and holds the key for perpetuating the memories of the martyrs for years to come in the service of “never again”.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41432808","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":"A Framework for Assessing Nuclear Terrorism Threats in Bangladesh","authors":"Md Mahbub Uz Zaman","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2185509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2185509","url":null,"abstract":"We live in a world where thousands of nuclear weapons exist. Many countries and even terrorist organizations want to acquire nuclear weapons. The ambiguous and transnational nature of terrorist organizations challenges the national security of many states. Bangladesh is a small and densely populated country with a nuclear energy plant. Although Bangladesh has a nuclear energy policy, it has no atomic security policy or legal framework. The dearth of military capabilities, administrative facilities, and human resources with proper skills and experiences makes Bangladesh vulnerable to nuclear terrorist attacks. This research aims to build a framework that would be useful in assessing the security threats from the likelihood of nuclear terrorism in a country like Bangladesh. This nuclear security assessment framework could be useful in assessing security threats from nuclear terrorism in non-nuclear-weapon countries.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48112948","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 Idea of Peace in Great Poets of Persian Literature","authors":"Mahmoud Mehravaran, Amir Sadeghi","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2182630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2182630","url":null,"abstract":"Today’s world is full of conflicts, enmities, and riots turning lack of peace to a great concern throughout the world. Why is peace being threatened? What are the backgrounds for lack of peace? What are the likely solutions for the present situation? Before everything, human beings need to acknowledge the necessity of reconciliation, peace, and tolerance more than ever. Since ancient times, intellectuals have written about inviting people to peace and tolerance in society. Persian poets, as the spokesmen of the emotions and thoughts of society, have called to peace and throughout history advising people to humanity, love, affection and forgiveness. Following its great poets, Persian folklore has always praised peace and decried violence. The present article studies the concept of peace in the poems of Ferdowsi, Rumi, Sa’di, Hafez, and Iqbal Lahori. According to these poets, the basic causes of war and violence are: resentment and jealousy, differences of opinion, aggression and oppression, popular dissatisfaction, authoritarianism, and extremist patriotism. To prevent violence and war, they call for the avoidance of unwarranted strife, tolerance for the enemy, legitimate defense against aggression, and the tolerance of the rude and the ignorant. These poets invite people to kindness, polite speech, love and affection, the satisfaction of the people through justice, and developing brotherhood.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42587015","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":"Motivation Jiu Jitsu: Nonviolence from a Self Determination Theory Perspective","authors":"Danendri Laleema Senanayake","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2182629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2182629","url":null,"abstract":"Nonviolence has two distinct subcategories, namely, principled, and pragmatic nonviolence. Principled nonviolence focuses on moral consciousness and pragmatic nonviolence focuses on political power. Scholars argue that principled nonviolence is moral jiu jitsu and pragmatic nonviolence is political jiu jitsu. This research builds a theoretical perspective on nonviolence using a case approach. It develops a framework for nonviolence from a self determination theory (SDT) perspective and introduces 'motivation jiu jitsu’. It presents nonviolence as a product of the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, which is enabled by the fulfillment of basic psychological needs. The developed theoretical framework on the relationship of nonviolence and SDT is positioned within the broader peace and conflict studies theory, encounter theory.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42634488","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 Church and Peace Process in Nagaland (India)","authors":"Shubhrajeet Konwer, Tabassum Rizvi","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2183078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2183078","url":null,"abstract":"The Naga insurgency, widely recognized as the longest asymmetric conflict in independent India, has had far-reaching effects on Naga society and altered the state’s politics. While the church in Nagaland has sought to bring different warring factions to a common platform and arrive at a \"fair\" and \"honorable\" solution to the Naga crisis, fundamental disagreements have clouded the peace process. Despite the signing of the Framework Agreement (2015) between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) and the Government of India, occasional incidence of violence continues to rock the state. The society in Nagaland stands fractured with its identity at crossroads. Considering the fact that the church has been an intrinsic element of Naga identity and is widely revered as an institution, this article explores the role of the church and reflects on its limitations in the reconciliation and peace processes in Nagaland. This paper comes to the conclusion that despite the church’s best efforts, finding a political solution to the Indo-Naga conflict will remain elusive due to the irreconcilable goals of various warring groups and the profound malaise that has crept into Naga society. The role of the church in the Indo-Naga war will, at best, be that of a moral force.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43409085","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":"Oral Traditions and Folklores as Tools of Political Mobilization and Conflict Transformation among Ethnic Minority Groups in Assam, India’s Northeast","authors":"Amrita Saikia","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2181661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2181661","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-ethnic violence and counter-violence have been at the center of writings on identity politics among ethnic groups in India’s Northeast. Yet, the existing literature on these aspects in India, especially in the Northeast region, has missed out on a very significant dimension. Very few studies have focused on the use of oral narratives and folklores as important methods that contribute to identity politics and conflict transformation among ethnic groups. Preliminary research suggests that ethnic violence in Northeast India exhibits variations in terms of the patterns of violence and state responses that shape the outcome of the conflicts. Oral narratives are the repositories of cultural reproduction of marginalized communities and serve as important tools that enable these communities to reclaim their identity, social justice and shape their agency. The aim of the paper is, therefore, to examine how and to what extent oral traditions and narratives in the form of folklore help mobilize marginalized ethnic groups in conflict zones in India’s Northeast. The paper uses the case study of the historically marginalized Bodo ethnic group to examine the linkages between folklore, identity construction, mobilization and peace.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47220311","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":"Fairy Tales in War and Conflict: The Role of Early Narratives in Mass Psychology of Political Violence","authors":"S. Moskalenko","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2181662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2181662","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes early exposure to fairy tales as an important factor of mass psychology that can help understand and predict broad public tendencies and reactions, especially in times of uncertainty and change such as wars and political unrest. Early childhood’s transition to self-awareness, and the resulting realization of one’s shortcomings, lead to the original loss of significance, with the consequences of seeking a way to restore the feeling of being important and special. In the resulting quest to restore lost significance, fairy tales play a prominent role. Fairy tales’ moral lessons are learned through modeling and operant conditioning, with characters’ rewards becoming intrinsic rewards for the child who identifies with the characters. These early moral models pave the way for significance quests of later life, especially when one’s choices are made under stress and uncertainty, which make the use of heuristics more likely than deliberation, enabling the early moral lessons from fairy tales to influence adult judgments and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60040580","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 Social Entities of Folklore as Everyday Peace: A Participatory Playback Theater Research","authors":"Nikolena Nocheva","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2178256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2178256","url":null,"abstract":"The present work explores the interweaving of folklore with two scenes from participatory playback theater research, conducted with individuals in migration at the La Roseraie integration center in Geneva, Switzerland. It assesses folklore’s prominence to create conditions for everyday peace. Notably, this research sought to explore how we collectively narrate and enact our unofficial knowledge about the world, whereby everyday peace emerges. Often unquestioned and taken for granted, everyday peace takes shape through performing, imagining and experimenting with social frames and meanings. These collective reflections offer alternative, yet fundamental ways of establishing and communicating personal and collective peace, whereby broadly developing creative conflict cultures. Therefore, this article demonstrates the social significance of creative processes which evoke a deeply rooted folklore capability to unite individual differences in social commonalities and relations.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47666609","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":"Shock and Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan, 1962–63","authors":"S. Mohan","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2023.2166785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2023.2166785","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the interstate reconciliation between India and Pakistan after the shock of Sino-Indian War of 1962. The post-1962 war political-security equations, particularly at the regional level, gave rise to a situation that necessitated India’s reconciliatory negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. Though the rival parties engaged in a six-round political dialogue, the process ended up in a deadlock followed by spirals of armed clashes that culminated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. The paper shows that this reconciliation process proved counterproductive because it was imposed from outside and the principal parties, in a window-driven haste and under the political-strategic constraints, could not mutually agree on to reconcile their political differences and settle the territorial dispute over Kashmir.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41689973","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":"Keeping It Real When Teaching about Reconciliation","authors":"Lisanne Gibson","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2162334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2162334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44679403","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}