Participatory planning and design in a protracted conflict situation: applications with citizen peace-building groups in Cyprus

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Broome
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Planning And Design

Re-thinking trauma: Local journalism, peace-building and continuous traumatic stress (CTS) on the violent margins of Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 175063522093912
Author(s):  
Mathew Charles
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Traumatic Stressors

The study of trauma in journalism tends to assume that trauma exposure (whether it has been a single event or a series of cumulative episodes) is past and finite. However, this article argues that the notion of trauma exposure as temporally located in the past fails to adequately capture the experiences of local, indigenous journalists living and working in contexts of protracted conflict or violence. There is a growing, if contested, acknowledgement that existing conceptualizations of traumatic stress, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), have limited utility in conditions of ongoing violence and danger. In contrast, and based on a participant observation study conducted over three years, this article proposes a spectrum of continuous traumatic stressors and charts the continuous traumatic stress (CTS) of four local reporters in Colombia, living and working in a context of intractable conflict. In this setting, where local journalists have become agents for peace, CTS conjoins the mental wellbeing of individual reporters with their capacity for peace-building.

scholarly journals Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Developing Curriculum for Peace

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
S.W. Wodi
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Clear Link ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Religious Differences

This paper discusses the issues of peace building in our cotemporary society and highlights the importance of peaceful co-existence in a multi-plural configuration like Nigeria. In this article, peace is viewed more in terms of ideological inclination at solving societal problems rather than merely chronicling incidence of war and other conflicts that might be a time bomb for resolving political, economic, social as well as religious differences in society. The paper emphases the value of peace in a democracy as this has the mechanism and the capacity to resolve global and regional issues that might give rise to conflict situation arising from lack of justice, equity and fairness in human interaction. Finally this paper sees a clear link between developing a positive attitude towards peace and peaceful co-existence and the obvious need to gradually tailor our curriculum along that direction.

scholarly journals Local Women's Agency In Peace Building: A Study on the Conflict of Iron Sand Mining In East Java

ULUMUNA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Asnawan Asnawan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Sand Mining ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Conflict Period

The local women as the agent in peace building are rare to be addressed in academic discourse. This paper seeks to analyse the roles played by local women in the conflict of iron sand mining in Wotgalih village, Lumajang regency, East Java Province. In the conflict situation, the women have already been as the backbone, carer and guard of the family replacing the roles of the men that do not function optimally. It is very clear how women played those roles by becoming farm laborers in watermelon field along Wotgalih Lumajang beach. In the post-conflict period, the women take an important role in fostering peace. They served as the spearhead for the reconciliation of the related parties.

scholarly journals Participation as Capacity-Building for Active Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Capability Approach

Within the framework of the “capability approach” to human rights, this paper argues that adults who facilitate participatory planning and design with children and youth have an ethical obligation to foster young people’s capacities for active democratic citizenship. Practitioners often worry, justifiably, that if young people fail to see their ideas realized, they may become disillusioned and alienated from political life. Based on the experience of the Growing Up in Cities program of UNESCO, four rules of good practice are distilled which can help promote young people’s belief in the value of collective action, regardless of the challenges that the full implementation of their ideas may face.

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