Peace Through Tourism

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Business Unit, University of South Australia, and Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Lynda-ann Blanchard is Vice-President of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education; Honorary Affiliate, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia and, Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Yoko Urbain is affiliated with St. Marianna University Nursing School, Kawasaki City, and Soka University Department of Letters, Tokyo, Japan; and Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).

Introduction Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism Part 1: Addressing structural violence 1. Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area 2. Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations 3. Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel 4. The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans 5. Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia 6. Disrupting structural violence in South Africa through township tourism Part 2: Peace Tourism Pedagogies 7. “We are reconciliators”: when Indigenous tourism begins with agency 8. Exploring a unifying approach to peacebuilding through tourism: Abraham and Israel/Palestine 9. Promoting sustainable tourism futures in Timor-Leste by creating synergies between food, place and people 10. Living in the Wake of Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism 11. Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning 12. One stone, two birds: harnessing interfaith tourism for peacebuilding and socio-economic development 13. “Don’t look back in anger”. War museums’ role in the post conflict tourism-peace nexus 14. Dances with despots: tourists and the afterlife of statues Part 3: Radical Peace Tourism in Practice 15. Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism 16. A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism 17. Te Awa Tupua: peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism Part 4: Postscript 18. WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism 19. Gender and sustainability – exploring ways of knowing – an ecohumanities perspective 20. “This is a holy place of Ama Jomo”: buen vivir, indigenous voices and ecotourism development in a protected area of Bhutan 21. The land has voice: understanding the land tenure –sustainable tourism development nexus in Micronesia 22. Colonizing space and commodifying place: tourism’s violent geographies