Many of the current peacebuilding tools originated in academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Theoretical frameworks, communication skills, and problem-solving exercises are now mimicked internationally, regardless of cultural context. Ritual peacebuilding offers new ways …
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The following thesis analyzes dialogue projects conducted by the two non-governmental organizations in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, aiming to reconcile divided societies. How successful each of them is and how they contributed to rebuilding trust and relations among the people.
Sudan has been embroiled in civil war for fifty years. The peace agreement of 2005 finally brought this war to an end. This research explores how radio has informed audience perceptions and interpretations on issues of peace and conflict. This research draws on peace and conflic…
Divisiveness routinely turns violent, thus making research into alternative means of dealing with conflict an urgent necessity. This dissertation focuses on the politics of divisiveness and the techniques of conflict transformation. In this, I offer a robust and operable theory …
The dissertation analyzes the Israeli peace camp and how positions on the questions of the interrelation between religion and nationality relate to the interpretations of justice vis-à-vis the Palestinian predicament. The dissertation studies the 'visions of peace' and the 'visi…
This dissertation examines how conflicts between the Peruvian State and the indigenous Awajún people can be transformed and further escalation prevented by focusing on rights claims. This study analyses the Awajún's main rights claims, their perspective on their relationship wit…
Recognising water as a central relational location of the asymmetric Israel- Palestinian conflict, this study critically analyses the peacebuilding significance of Israeli, transboundary water and peace practitioner discourses. Anchored in a theoretically-constructed framework o…
This thesis analyses the effects of gender inclusive policies or the lack of such on development at a time of conflict transformation. It has nowadays been established that the presence of women and the existence of gendered policies at a time of peace building are vital for the…
This thesis takes a gender-sensitive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and asks whether and how Palestinian women’s different formal and informal political activism in ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘resistance’ can make a contribution to positive sustainable social and politica…
Justice and reconciliation are both highly complex concepts that are often described as incompatible alternatives in the aftermath of violent conflicts, despite the fact that both are fundamental to peacebuilding in societies divided by the legacies of political violence, oppres…