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      Weapons of the weakened, but not wiped out: insurgent adaptability through life histories

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      We offer a new theoretical framework – of militarized familial ties – to capture precisely how familial ties shape, and are shaped by, women’s participation in fighting forces.

      The art(s) of conflict disruption in South Sudan

      As part of the justice imagination in South Sudan, the arts disrupt conflict by resisting the erasure of past and present violence and offer visions of justice that refuse the totality of violence by rendering visible an imagined future without war.

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Coline Cardeño
May 23, 2025 Jun 6, 2025

‘Jihad is Planted in Our Hearts’: International Aid, Rebel Institutions and Women’s Participation in the Bangsamoro

Categories Bangsamoro Civil War Latest News Peacebuilding Philippines Post-war Rebel Groups Women mobilisation
Ragnar Jensen
Tom Buitelaar
Jan 19, 2024 Jan 19, 2024

Bringing Humans Back In: Agency and Structure in Peace and Conflict Studies

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Pauline Zerla
Aug 16, 2023 Aug 18, 2023

The Spaces in Between – Examining Community Experiences of DDR and Reintegration

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Dr Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala
Jan 4, 2023 Jul 25, 2023

War mentalities: disarming state soldiers’ hearts and minds in Post-Agreement Colombia

Categories Blog Colombia Latest News Peace Process Peacebuilding
Dr Miranda Melcher
Dec 22, 2022 Jan 6, 2023

Rethinking DDR: the possibilities of post-conflict military integration

Categories Africa Blog DDR Governance Integration Latest News Peace Peacebuilding Post-war
Dr Sayra van den Berg
Dec 13, 2022 Sep 8, 2023

Of arts and war: the thrills and challenges of the arts in ethnography in South Sudan

Categories Africa Blog Notes from the field Peacebuilding Research News Team
Theresa Bachmann
Dec 6, 2022 Dec 16, 2022

Training matters: reflections on trauma in civil war research

Categories Blog Colombia Latest News Notes from the field Peacebuilding Post-war Trauma
Luna K.C.
Nov 23, 2022 Nov 28, 2022

Armed conflict, reintegration, and gender roles

Categories Blog Gender Latest News Nepal Peace Peacebuilding Post-war Research News
CP Aryal
Oct 28, 2022 Nov 7, 2022

Marriage among combatants in Nepal’s Maoist insurgency

Categories Blog Identity Latest News Nepal Notes from the field Peace Peacebuilding Post-war Process
Federico Manfredi Firmian
Oct 14, 2022 Oct 14, 2022

Political unrest and socio-environmental breakdown in Iraq

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Víctor Barrera
Sep 29, 2022 Sep 29, 2022

Achieving ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia: The Dilemmas of Participation in Peacebuilding

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Theresa Bachmann
Sep 23, 2022 Sep 23, 2022

Grounding the Inclusion Hype: Learning from Participatory Development Programmes in Post-Agreement Colombia

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