{"title":"Beyond Utopia: The Building Utopia Guide for Queer and Trans Muslims","authors":"Mx. Yaffa A.S.","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2132818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2132818","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the theory of what Utopia is and pathways to building Utopia are attributed to white-cis-global north males. However, communities have been dreaming of Utopia and working toward building Utopia for centuries prior to the existence of the theory we have today. Further, marginalized individuals begin dreaming of Utopia before they have access to language. We do not learn about Utopia from the “fathers of Utopia”, we learn it from our ancestors and communities. To honor this transgenerational labor, this essay serves as a guide by and for the most marginalized trans community members toward building Utopia, countering imperialist white supremacist narratives telling us that our Utopia must be built by white-cis-global north citizens.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43952403","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}
Joscelyn M. Inton-Campbell, Mikee N. Inton-Campbell, Denn van Wanrooij
{"title":"A Conversation with Denn Van Wanrooij, ILGA World","authors":"Joscelyn M. Inton-Campbell, Mikee N. Inton-Campbell, Denn van Wanrooij","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2133563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2133563","url":null,"abstract":"In this short interview, Denn van Wanrooij, who co-leads ILGA World’s Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics programme, talks about global organizing around trans and gender diverse rights. They emphasize the need to engage with the various actors resisting anti-gender movements, focusing on solidarity-building across vastly different human rights movements around the world.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41874684","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":"Nazi Gender Ideology, Memoricide, and the Attack on the Berlin Institute for Sexual Research","authors":"Matther B. Fuller, Leah Owen","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2131383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2131383","url":null,"abstract":"On 6 May 1933, a group of Nazi students attacked and looted the Institute for Sexual Research (the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or “IfS”), a body set up by the Jewish and openly gay sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld. The IfS’ archives were publicly burned four days later (Hill 2013, 13–15), with photos of the event now synonymous with Nazi repression. Was this targeted, categorical, exterminatory violence against LGBTQ people an attempt at “memoricide” – the willful destruction of the memories and cultural treasures of an adversary (Civallero 2007)? This paper argues that queer people – including trans people – were indeed attacked as part of the Holocaust, facing specific attempts to erase them (whether through invisibilization, memoricide, or direct extermination). Nazi anti-queer ideology, however, was incoherent and erratic. This study contests that they attempted memoricide, social cleansing, and genocide of groups whose parameters and “threat” they had only a hazy notion of. This led to inconsistent treatment for what we might now describe as “transfeminine” and “transmasculine” populations, and produced complex and ad hoc, but still deeply queerphobic, state discourse. Having examined these patterns of prejudice, we proceed to examine attempts to restore this history, and recount the lives of trans people and archives.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47584318","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":"Hope as a Tool to Overcome the Dangers of Inevitability","authors":"Alexandra Muszynski","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2126722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2126722","url":null,"abstract":"H do we get from where we are to where we want to be? One can reflect on this question on multitudinous levels, whether personally, nationally, or globally. There are three key elements to attempting to answer this question: the first is understanding where we are in the present moment, and meaningfully diagnosing the problems of today that we wish to address; the second is being able to conceptualize a different future, a vision for a future one sees as a normative improvement; the third element is the how, how do we build the pathways that link the present to a conceptual better future? This essay will examine one significant barrier we must overcome to conceptualize and actualize a better future, and one important tool for overcoming said barrier. The barrier is the “politics of inevitability” as defined by Timothy D. Snyder (2018), and the way through it is “Hope” as defined by Charles S. Snyder (2002). Timothy D. Snyder (2018) defines the politics of inevitability as:","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41343818","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 Millennium of Peace and Development without Wars in Human History: Vinča Culture","authors":"Slobodan Adžić","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2115290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2115290","url":null,"abstract":"Human societies that were most efficient were primarily cooperative rather than competitive. The Vinča culture in Neolithic Old Europe is one more documented peaceful and egalitarian cooperative society in history. Vinča was the largest inhabited settlement in Old Europe and the entire Neolithic culture was named after it. The successful trade in Neolithic Europe was probably motivated by the spiritual components of the value of the goddess figurine products. The author argues that along with trade and agriculture, the main driver of the development of Neolithic society and Vinča culture was the authentic type of leadership. There was no privileged position or distinct status for leaders. The leadership was based on responsibilities, the leader was responsible to put the acquired knowledge in the service of the development of the whole community. Undoubtedly, the leadership expressed in the Vinča culture is one of the main reasons for its peaceful progress.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42930073","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":"Friends with Benefits (and Sometimes Costs)","authors":"Tom H. Hastings","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2095202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2095202","url":null,"abstract":"In peace and justice movements (and I include all environmental campaigns and movements under the rubric environmental justice) the ideas of friendship are never far from the surface. And just as Dr. King wrote about the various forms of love, we can consider multiple types of friendship as it relates to activism for peace, social change, and a broad array of justice issues. I will suggest that this is not a mere side characteristic, but can often be central to questions of effectiveness. Overcoming paralyzing polarizing divisions, conflicting worldviews, radically different values and norms in order to achieve a particular, carefully outlined and bounded goal is, in our age of greatly divided segments of the polity, perhaps a way forward worth exploring in some situations.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43313504","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 Art of Friendship: Solidifying Resettled Communities in Philadelphia","authors":"K. Price, Yaroub Al-Obaidi","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2079947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2079947","url":null,"abstract":"Written by two unlikely friends, this article discusses a project, Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary (FPS), that brought together professional book artists and recently resettled families from Syria and Iraq to co-create works together over the course of two years, and culminated in a series of exhibitions in Swarthmore, Philadelphia, and New York. Friendship and building intercultural relationships was at the heart of FPS, which we argue exemplifies the ways in which community-based, socially engaged art can function as a pathway to peace and social justice in local communities. The project, which formally ended in 2019, has had ripple effects in the resettled community of Philadelphia, and project collaborators continue to work closely together to promote peace in the City through arts and culture initiatives.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47593556","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 “New” American Genocide: Forced Pregnancy and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women","authors":"K. Standish","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2109938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2109938","url":null,"abstract":"F pregnancy, the result of making reproductive rights for women illegal, is an infringement of the genocide convention, a crime against humanity, and a violation of the rights of females to experience fundamental human rights and freedoms. While a 2022U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade returns the determination of the legal status of abortion to individual states, in states where a rape leads to pregnancy, the life of the mother is at stake, and access to reproductive care is illegal, a ban on body autonomy will undoubtedly result in forced pregnancies. Three international law conventions exist that address the emerging concerns regarding identity-based violence against females in the United States: the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Article II), the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Definition of Crimes Against Humanity (Article 7), and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (Article 1). All three prohibit discriminatory violence directed against identity groups. But it may surprise some to know that of the three documents, only two refer specifically to crimes against females, and the one that does not is the only one ratified by the United States.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43711649","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":"Building Peace through Facebook Friendship Groups","authors":"Lisanne Gibson","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2095201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2095201","url":null,"abstract":"As social media use is on the rise throughout the world, there are increasing numbers of scholars studying the ways that social media increases conflict and how the nature of the algorithm causes people to be consistently exposed to information that reinforces their own views of the world, known as the echo chamber effect. This echo chamber reinforces particular narratives about the world and leads to stereotyping. In fact, the online world has become one of the greatest breeding grounds for discord and toxic polarization. This discord is causing some to question whether social media forums serve any real positive benefit, influencing some to abandon these forums completely. However, aren’t there also positive benefits to social media, like the ability to gain large amounts of information about people and events in real time? These mediums also connect people all over the world, who previously would never have come into contact with each other. One might argue that the benefits must outweigh the detriments or millions of people would not flock to these places to socialize, learn, and dialogue several times a day. Perhaps this argument is subject to debate, however, clearly people are getting something that they need from these online interactions. Humans are inherently social beings and it is part of their nature to relate to one another and interact. In many ways, social media has become the new normal for how people socialize and relate to others. It has been said that with the internet and social media, the world is at your doorstep. Where people used to communicate with their mouths, they now increasingly communicate with their fingers and a keyboard. However, the question remains, if social media has become a breeding ground for conflict, can it also be used as a mechanism for peace?","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42094677","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":"Cultivating Virtuous Friendship as a Model for Teaching Peace Positively","authors":"Josu Ahedo","doi":"10.1080/10402659.2022.2097863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2097863","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective is to show how relations of virtuous friendship are an effective strategy for teaching peace. The basis for this assertion is the Aristotelean proposal that differentiates between perfect friendship, which is virtuous and seeks what is good for the friend, and secondary friendships whose goal is utility and pleasure. Virtuous friends seek to help the friend acquire virtue. Moreover, it highlights the need to accept that we are people with a nature that needs refinement and to accept the innate characteristics each person is born with. This two-fold acceptance is necessary to accept and love the friend as oneself, and whom to help be virtuous. Thus, it also requires understanding the importance of inner personal harmony to avoid conflicts as a condition of virtuous friendship.","PeriodicalId":51831,"journal":{"name":"Peace Review-A Journal of Social Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42800249","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}