Essays about: "urban peacebuilding"
Found 4 essays containing the words urban peacebuilding.
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1. Nairobi on Board: Skateboarders' Sensory Experiences of Community, Body, and Space
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : In this paper, I argue skateboarding to be a ritualizing performance that acts as a catalyst for transformative energies and heightened emotional states. Aided by the sensory experience of riding a board, powerful feelings of connectedness and unity arise amongst those who practice skateboarding, so intense that they transgress day-to-day social boundaries and temporarily overcome the socioeconomic segregation of ordinary urban life. READ MORE
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2. What Peace? Grasping the Empirical Realities of Peace(s) in Post-war Mitrovica
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Urban peacebuilding has proved particularly challenging in cities contested on grounds of state legitimacy where group identities are salient. Ever since the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, the city of Mitrovica has remained divided and been further polarized by outbreaks of violence, post-war politics, and strained inter-group relations. READ MORE
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3. Bringing cities in - the urbanization of critical peacebuilding
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : As major flashpoints of contemporary conflict, contested cities are intensely resistant towards efforts aimed at reconstruction, reintegration and reconciliation. Peacebuilding undertaken in these cities often fails, leaving them on a continuum between war and peace where their frozen internal conflicts become stumbling blocks of statewide peacebuilding. READ MORE
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4. Unanswered Questions and Empty Spaces: The Challenge of Communicating History and Memory in Post-Genocide Cambodia
University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Twenty-eight years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, many Cambodians are still unclear about what really took place during the 1975-1979 regime, during which an estimated 1.7 million people died. READ MORE
