Culture, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

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This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related disciplines. “This book incorporates perceptions, knowledge, and insights of minority and marginalied communities. Practitioners, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students of conflict resolution could benefit immensely from this volume.” —S. I. Keethaponcalan, Professor of Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA “Through this book, students of politics, policy, human rights, and peace studies are offered engagement with resistance against violence and find connections through lived experiences for various possibilities in our common desire for peace.” —Umut Ozkaleli, Associate Professor, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan “This unique collection of diverse voices invites readers to listen with their souls along a series of journeys where individual identities, realities, and experiences merge into one: that of an intensely interdependent humanity.” —Imani Scott, Professor of Communications, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal to the political. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related disciplines. Christina Beyene has worked for several years in the settlement and postsecondary sectors advocating for equitable educational policy. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Leonardo Luna is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana, Colombia, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Nkwazi Mhango teaches Swahili and African culture to Canadian diplomats and government workers posted to East Africa through Graybridge Malkam, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Jessica Senehi is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is Editor of Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies. She holds a PhD in Social Science from Syracuse University. This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal to the political. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related disciplines.

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Pages: 271, Edition: 2024, Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan