Culture, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

Christina Beyene is a senior policy analyst at the University of Winnipeg Office of Institutional Analysis. 

Leonardo Luna is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana in Colombia and a doctoral candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Nkwazi Mhango teaches Swahili and African culture to Canadian Diplomats and Government workers posted to East Africa through Graybridge Malkam and is a doctoral candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Jessica Senehi is a professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Manitoba. She is an editor of Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies.

Introduction.- Part I - Theory-Building.- Chapter 1.Connections between critical peacebuilding perspectives and Southern and liberation theories.- Chapter 2. No peace until we decolonize and return to our roots: Culture and peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3. The war against Tigray's women and girls: Resistance in the face of grave atrocities.-Part 2 - culture, Power, and Resistance.- Chapter 4. A heritage of stars: The dangerous business of being a woman and what to do about it.- Chapter 5.Culture and resistance: Home, exile, belonging and the representation of women in the posters of the Medu Art Ensemble.- Chapter 6. Cultural versus personal agency: Willpower close to madness-charting my own path toward my dreams.-Part 3 - (RE-)Creating Cultures of Peace .-Chapter 7.Aki gakinoomaagewin [Teaching from the earth] as peace education.-Chapter 8.Reckoning with racism: Critical education and community museums.- Chapter 9.Reinterpretation of the world: Transformative learning through experience and reflection.- Chapter 10. Creating a culture of "being peace": From listening to trauma stories to peacebuilding .- Conclusion.