technological developments of digital communication in the twenty-first century have opened up new terrains of research methodologies and theories for peace and conflict studies ( Eriksson and Giampiero 2007 ; Nouri and Whiting 2015 ). The term “cyberspace
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Introduction
The Digital Age Opens Up New Terrains for Peace and Conflict Research
Josepha Ivanka Wessels
Ronald Stade
inflicted by perpetrators. At times, this is also true of theoretical concepts in scholarly fields like international relations and peace and conflict studies, which might serve the same purpose, or, at least, have the same effect. Concepts like “national
The Many Faces of the State
Living in Peace and Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Nasir Uddin and Eva Gerharz
people at the margins experience the state in everyday life and what this reveals about the conditions of peace and conflict in the CHT. The second is to examine how people construct and imagine the “state” in their everyday experiences. We start by
Introduction
The Social Life of Contentious Concepts
Ronald S. Stade
a village or remote province. They belong to a genre that straddles several disciplinary boundaries—conceptual history, political anthropology, cultural sociology, peace and conflict studies, international relations, and so on—and is consigned to a
Introduction
The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement
Henrik Vigh and Jesper Bjarnesen
for an exploration, rather than a mere presumption, of its social and existential consequences. By locating the study of displacement in the intersection between migration research and peace and conflict studies, this thematic section contributes to
Recapturing the Lost
Digitalized Memories of the Rhodesian Bush War
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
The study of digitalized memory in the social sciences is still budding. In peace and conflict studies it is unusual. Much of the research on digitalized memory of war and conflict is performed by researchers in other disciplines and tends to focus
Curating Conflict
Four Exhibitions on Jerusalem
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
. Theoretical Foundation We ground the discussion featured in this article on Jerusalem museum exhibitions in the fields of cultural anthropology, history, cultural and museum studies, and peace and conflict studies. Our own research has led us to explore what
Seeking Recognition, Becoming Citizens
Achievements and Grievances among Former Combatants from Three Wars
Johanna Söderström
. “ The Syrian Civil War and the Possibility of Citizenship Claims for Afghan Refugees in Iran .” Paper presented at “The Making of Peace, Conflict and Security Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion,” 6th Biannual Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology
Palestine
A Protracted Peacebuilding Process
Emile Badarin
, mathematics, computer modeling) inform peace and conflict theories in their attempts to study causal correlations between so-called dependent and independent variables. For instance, statistics show that peace correlates with democracy; consequently