How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc and Global South, on communities addressing conflict in divided and contested societies.

The book draws on a range of critical perspectives and practitioner analyses. The diverse case studies demonstrate the considerable knowledge, skills, commitment, courage and relationships within local communities that a critical community development approach can support and encourage.

Concluding with activists’ perspectives on working with the challenges of violence, the book offers insights for both an understanding of the root causes of conflict and for bottom-up peacebuilding.

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How can local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North and Global South, on communities alleviating conflict and enabling transformation in divided societies.
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Introduction ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray

Everyday Peace as a Community Development Approach ~ Anthony Ware, Vicki-Ann Ware, and Leanne Kelly

Peacebuilding with Youth: Experience in Cúcuta, Colombia ~ Nohora Constanza Niño Vega

Dialogues to develop civil movements in the Caucasus ~ Larissa Sotieva and Juliet Schofield

Working for Social Justice through Community Development in Nigeria ~ Samir Halliru

Memory, truth, and hope: long journeys of justice in Eastern Sri Lanka ~ Sarala Emmanuel and P.B. Gowthaman

Brazil: Public Security as a human right in the favelas ~ Eliana Sousa Silva and Lidiane Malanquini, Redes da Maré

Nepal: Working with community-based women to influence inclusion and peacebuilding ~ Susan Risal

Palestinian storytelling: authoring their own lives ~ Patricia Sellick

Community-based action in Northern Ireland: Activism in a violently contested society ~ Monina O’Prey

Everyday Peace: After Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar’s Rohingya Conflict ~ Vicki-Ann Ware, Anthony Ware and Leanne Kelly

Drawing the threads together ~ John Eversley, Sinéad Gormally and Avila Kilmurray

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The first book to explore the value of theory and practice of community development in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447359333
Publisert
2022-11-28
Utgiver
Bristol University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
276

Biografisk notat

John Eversley is Managing Director of two social enterprises: Policy, Practice, Research and Education and Macroscopia.

Sinead Gormally is Senior Lecturer in Community Development and Adult Education at the University of Glasgow.

Avila Kilmurray is Migration and Peacebuilding Executive at The Social Change Initiative.