Reconstruction as a Case Study in Flawed Conflict Transformation

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Transformation

When Neutrality is Taboo. Navigating Institutional Identity in Protracted Conflict Settings - the Nigerian Ife/Modakeke Case

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Institutional Identity ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
The University

AbstractThis paper explores the means by which social institutions located in African communities that are deeply and violently polarized along ethnic-related lines, navigate the institutional role and identity within such a local environment. Utilizing a case study of ethno-political conflict in the Ile-Ife and Modakeke communities of South Western Nigeria, the paper investigates how the local academy has sought to survive as a zone of diversities located in host cit(ies) with rigidly structured mythicohistories and conflicting geopolitical claims. Through this exploration of the paradox of the uneasy cohabitation of contested realities and the quest for postwar healing and rehabilitation, the paper unveils the unusual local interpretation, rejection and reconstruction of the concept of neutrality, and highlights the challenges, both philosophical and concrete, which confront the academy. The findings of the study suggest a need to cautiously, but decidedly, resituate the university as a civically engaged arena for the creative re-envisioning of diversity and cultural pluralism and ultimately for local and national conflict transformation in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Education for Building Bridges and Strengthening Physical Infrastructural Linkages in South Asia: A Case Study of South Asian University

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 255-261
Author(s):  
Salma malik ◽  
Shabana Fayyaz
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
South Asian Community ◽  
Common Vision

Multi-track diplomacy provides an effective theoretical model, which considers education as an important track integral in ushering peace, building bridges, creating the necessary infrastructure, changing mindsets and ultimately enabling a transformation from conflict prone to peace-oriented societies. Thus, giving rise to the idea of a regional higher education institution, primarily to build a regional center of excellence, with a shared common vision, that would help create a South Asian community and provide equitable access to students from all over the region. However, functioning for a decade now, the South Asian University has not been able to achieve many of the aims associated with it, largely due to the inherent hurdles and regional politics. This study will highlight the impediments faced within the region for utilizing education as an effective bridge builder and agent for positive conflict transformation & further examine the SAU’s ability to transcend the deeply entrenched conflict narrative.

“In Toronto, Iranians and Israelis Make Music, Not War”

2017 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Noam Lemish ◽  
Peter Lemish ◽  
Parisa Sabet Sarvestani ◽  
Dan Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Objective Interpretation

Engaged musicking creates enjoyable, meaningful aesthetic experiences and strengthens citizen engagement in public policy. This case study of March 2015 Converging Paths concert in Toronto, organized by the Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative, demonstrates how acting through this worldview included political communication as a key sphere of action. Applying Mannheim's Documentary Approach, three interpretations are presented: The Objective Interpretation details what occurred. Subjective Interpretation presents analyses of organizer-composer-musicians' explanations for why and how they constructed and communicated their alternative political narrative. Documentary Interpretation explains how organizers' initiatives, including political communication, are consonant with efforts by critical communicators, conflict transformation through social change, audiotopias.

The April Uprising: How a Nonviolent Struggle Explains the Transformation of Armed Conflict in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.B. Subedi ◽  
Prakash Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Common Enemy

A plethora of literature explains how armed conflicts terminate in nonviolent political settlements. However, little is known about how and why nonviolence functions as a mechanism of conflict transformation. Using the case study of the 2006 April Uprising (Jana Andolan II) in Nepal, this paper shows how the nonviolent struggle was a vehicle for the termination of the armed conflict that ravaged the country for a decade (1996–2006). The collaboration between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPNM), erstwhile enemies, led to nonviolent collective action, driven by the convergence of interests of these two key actors towards fighting a common enemy: the royal Palace. The paper argues that the nonviolent struggle also transformed strategies, attitudes and behaviour of key actors, including the CPNM, which ultimately transformed conflict issues into peace issues and induced structural changes in the long run. Thus the processes of actor transformation, issue transformation and structural transformation catalysed by the April Uprising explain why and how the nonviolent struggle functioned as a catalyst for the termination of the armed conflict.

scholarly journals Strategic Engagement and Religious Peace-building: a case study of religious peace work in Jerusalem

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Yvonne Wang
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Single Strategy ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
The Common

This article argues for the importance of a dialogue for strategic engagement and presents an analytical approach to it with reference to three different peacebuilding strategies in terms of conflict resolution theories. As a case study example, the article presents three religious organizations engaged in peacebuilding in Jerusalem and explores the different strategies utilized by them. The article further argues that each single strategy possesses a danger of going wrong, at the same time as each single strategy is a vital component as part of a parallel process along with the others – to achieve the common goal of conflict transformation.

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