From The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute For Global Peace, Security And Justice
Conflict Resolution Blog
Professor John Brewer
Welcome to the blog run by The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University
This is intended to offer the opportunity of dialogue between the Institute and the global public on issues of conflict resolution, social justice and peace.
We will post a variety of different types of blog that appeal to the many local audiences that go to make up this global public space but all reflect the Mitchell Institute’s enduring and long-standing commitment to foster global peace, security and justice.
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Latest Posts
Steven Youngblood | 9 March, 2018
Excerpted from “Peace Journalism Principles and Practice” (Routledge/Taylor and Francis Books, to be published in the fall of 2016)
Johan Galtung | 9 March, 2018
To navigate these difficult conceptual waters rules are needed. Here are three suggestions (the violence can be direct--as sometimes prescribed by the Abrahamic religions--or structural as by Hinduism):
Professor John Braithwaite | 9 March, 2018
Sequencing has to be important in peacebuilding. Researchers don’t have a good grip on what kind of sequencing works. I used to think that there was a sequence of truth, then justice, then reconciliation that was important to accomplish.
Professor Daniel Philpott | 9 March, 2018
When it comes to building peace and stability in the wake of war, dictatorship, and genocide around the globe, certain questions and a certain language are dominant.
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela | 9 March, 2018
Every year on September 12, South Africans remember the violent murder of Steve Biko, the icon of the anti-apartheid struggle who was murdered by the apartheid police on this day in 1977.