Peace Campaign Research Articles

State and Non-State Actors in Sustainable Peace and Development

Despite the Kenya Government and other Development Agencies’ publicised interventions, the Pokot community in East Pokot of Baringo County, is often caught up in conflict with their neighbours, a factor that reveals a more complex scenario, often in the context of marginalization. This research article seeks to examine the existing interventions by State and non-state actors for sustainable peace and development in East Pokot, Baringo County. The research article utilizes both primary and secondary data.Primary data was collected from five main villages in East Pokot namely Chewara, Chemukutan, Tamkal, Kakapul and Mosolyon. The four villages of Chewara, Chemukutan, Tamkal and Kakapul are among some of the villages that have been highly affected by the protracted conflicts. It also employs an exploratory research design with the Primary data being gathered through Focus GroupDiscussions (FGDs) in five areas in East Pokot villages considered as conflict hotspots, and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with otherstakeholders. Data from secondary sources including documents and news media has been used in order to help in understanding the context, and the existing interventions, as well as the social, economic, and political environment in East Pokot sub-county. The findings reveals effective interventions included livelihood and environmental support, education initiatives, and peace campaigns, particularly those featuring participatory and targeted engagements and a mind-set and behaviour change approach. It recommends policy interventions that promote distributive justice, equalization, and affirmative action, as well as the establishment of policies and practices that support pastoral livelihood and the pastoral economy. It also recommends the use of integrated interventions that will help reduce the immediate vulnerabilities while also working on long-term mind-set and behaviour change.

Plural(Is)Me: Mungkinkah Kita Bersaudara? Merangkai Gerakan Persaudaraan Sebagai Arena Bersama, Belajar dari Jaringan Gusdurian

In the midst of inter-religious segregation, there are several inter-faith movements. Apparently, the movement developed over time. One of the interfaith movements currently present in implementing the values of fraternity is Jaringan Gusdurian. The presence of Jaringan Gusdurian gives a new color to the interfaith movement, because of this group move actively in fighting for justice, defending minority groups and carrying out peace campaigns. In its implementation, this group also prioritizes human values wrapped in interfaith movements.This article will specifically discuss the brotherhood movement as a common arena, learning from Jaringan Gudurian, using the perspective of Strategic Action Fields theory, where this theory explains the fields or arenas that gives a new possibility through the role of social actors. Through this theory, a guide will be founded to find out models of fraternal movements in Jaringan Gusdurian which are models of fraternal movements in living together.

Impact of Sufi Movement on Socio-religious Life During the Medieval Period: Rise and Spread of Sufism Movement in India

Sufism develops the esoteric and exoteric dimensions of spiritual practice to establish deep devotion, love as passion; Instead of Namaz, Hajj and celibacy, poetry, song and dance, worship and turning away from God are the norm. Like the Bhakti movement, the Sufi movement also came into its effective form in the medieval period, although its background can be seen only in the seventh-eighth century. Similarly, like the Bhakti movement, the Sufi movement was not an attempt to establish any new religion but was a peaceful campaign of Islam.

Nurturing Sustainable Peace: Unveiling the Integral Role of Women in Rwanda’s Peacebuilding Endeavors

The salient prominence of women’s potential in contributing to peacebuilding initiatives has garnered notable recognition at national, regional, and international echelons. The discernment of pivotal concerns germane to women, peace, and security has equally captivated the focal point of interventions within international development. This resonance emanates from the stark reality that women continue to bear the brunt of conflict’s impact, particularly pronounced in the most perilous conflict-ravaged zones. This paper examines the pivotal role women assumed in Rwanda’s peacebuilding endeavors, elucidating the profound impact of their engagement on the nation’s enduring stability. To comprehensively grasp the challenges confronting women in their pursuit of peacebuilding initiatives, this study accounts for national, regional, and institutional agreements and an extensive array of pertinent reports. It contends that intense conflict, exemplified in Rwanda and the wider Great Lakes region, has raised women’s awareness of the need for decisive conflict resolution and amplified recognition of their key role in fostering enduring peace. At this juncture, the study unearths those formidable barriers that impede women’s agency in advancing peace, often manifesting as male counterparts obstructing their participation in peacebuilding. The leadership of peace campaigns and the facilitation of ‘dialogues’ emerge as modalities for cultivating intercommunity reconciliation among factions entangled in conflict dynamics. Central to the fabric of this investigation is an underscored emphasis on women’s empowerment, positioning them as indispensable stakeholders in the orchestration of peacebuilding endeavors.

REVIEW: Peace researcher who was a global trail blazer

Peacemonger: Owen Wilkes: International Peace Researcher, edited by May Bass and Mark Derby. Wellington: Raekaihau Press, 2022. 196 pages. ISBN 978191153869196.
 THIS volume of essays provides a committed overview of the life of the extraordinary Aotearoa New Zealand peace campaigner and co-founder of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa, Owen Wilkes. Drawing on contributions by those who knew him and co-edited by his long-time partner, May Bass, who was for many years editor of Peacelink, it tells the somewhat complicated -- and ultimately tragic --- story of his life.

GREENPEACE CAMPAIGN ON THE PURCHASE OF NON-ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRODUCTS

Introduction: The economic management system is based on the principle of economic actors, tending to focus on the needs, comfort and health of consumers. It is very incomplete, if it is not environmentally oriented when the product is no longer used. The purpose of this study is to find out whether green peace campaigns can influence the choice of non-environmentally friendly products on consumer demand. This research is also expected to be able to make an evaluation for the XYZ company in developing products, based on balancing consumer demand with the environment Methods: The method used in this research is using a closed questionnaire data processing approach, and includes the interview method, in analyzing why the respondent chose a particular answer Results: The selection of product D with non-environmentally friendly packaging and components, still has the highest purchase rate of 1,9. Followed by the second-ranking of product B from the second statement with non-environmentally friendly packaging often purchased at 1,8; the third-ranking product A from the first statement with environmentally friendly packaging is purchased more often at 1,3; and the last ranking of product C from the third statement with environmentally friendly packaging and components is often purchased at 1,2. Conclusion and suggestion: The concept of selecting relatively cheaper costs, is said to still be the main product choice for consumer behavior, even though it has non-environmentally friendly risks. Data processing also shows that the selection of environmentally friendly products with more expensive costs is less chosen by consumers.

AMAN Indonesia's Contribution To Voicing The Peace Of Muslim Women In Indonesia by Using Social Media

The diversity that exists in Indonesia creates harmony but also creates conflict. In resolving a conflict, discussions must be held in order to create peace. Peace in resolving a conflict is not only carried out by men but women also have a very large role in voicing peace. With the development of technology and information media, peace campaigns can be carried out using social media but must be carried out by institutions that have been systematically organized so that peace goals can be achieved. The purpose of this study is to see the contribution of AMAN Indonesia as Indonesia's largest women's institution in voicing the peace of Muslim women in Indonesia using social media. The research method in this study uses descriptive qualitative using literature studies. The results of this study show that an institutional contribution to voicing women can be done with organized and transformed social movements using new technologies such as social media. AMAN Indonesia as a well-organized organization uses social media as a tool in voicing the peace of Muslim women in Indonesia. The activities carried out by AMAN Indonesia in voicing the peace of Muslim women in Indonesia are conducting open dialogues, group discussions, watching peaceful films, and education on social media. Keywords: Muslim Women, Peace, Social Media, AMAN Indonesia

Science of the Twilight Empire: British Atomic Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization

This article discusses the British version of the Atoms for Peace campaign between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s that aimed at maintaining, reorganizing, or strengthening its ties with countries in the traditional Briton sphere of influence as a scientific diplomacy tool for enhancing its soft power. The Conference of Commonwealth Atomic Scientists and the Harwell Reactor School were consistent with this objective. Notably, the United Kingdom prioritized its geopolitical interests in its Atoms for Peace overseas campaign. Desiring to maintain the British influence in the vast region from Ankara to Karachi, the United Kingdom also founded the regional nuclear center attached to the Baghdad Pact (or CENTO in later years). For creating an attractive magnetic force attached to Britain throughout the Middle East, the UK considered a regional nuclear center necessary to demonstrate the power of science and technology in practice.

From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s

ABSTRACT This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary people in the USSR to lobby the Soviet government to disarm. WFLOE’s fame as ‘Greenham Women’ helped them to publicise their overseas activism and they attempted to challenge predominant representations of peace campaigners in the UK by campaigning against Soviet nuclear weapons. However, this success was limited with the Cold War maintaining primacy for the British press and WFLOE only gaining positive coverage when they caused embarrassment to the Soviets.

Reading the Message of Peace Campaign in the Global Happiness Challenge Instagram: The Digital Communication Era

As we live in industry 4.0, digital communication has become the most accessible one. One of the examples of digital communication is Instagram. Instagram is one of the most famous among youths all over the world. It is used as a means of storing photos and videos and as a means of conveying meaning. The images displayed on Instagram attract the readers to understand the meaning attached in the image or behind it implicitly. At that point, the purpose of this study is to decipher and analyze the peace message contained in Morshad Mishu's Instagram image for The Global Happiness Challenge. This Instagram account describes wars all over the world, with a focus on Islamic countries. Images of war on Instagram are presented in two styles: black-white and colourful design. The significance of this research is to communicate and convey the message of peace in the digital era through Instagram as one of the long-term goals of all campaigns to achieve a better life. The study employs a descriptive qualitative approach. Roland Barthes' semiotic theory is applied to the reading of seven images. They are three stages of the analysis: (1) denotation meaning, (2) connotation meaning, and (3) myths. The main finding reveals from reading the seven images in The Global Happiness Challenge Instagram is that the meaning of peace in seven images is used as a bargaining power to end the war. Only tears, sadness, fear, death, and destruction have resulted from the war.

The Center Can Hold: Colum McCann's Apeirogon and W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming"

The Center Can Hold:Colum McCann's Apeirogon and W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (bio) colum mccann's ambitious 2020 novel, Apeirogon, takes its name from a geometrical shape with a "countably infinite number of sides."1 As a controlling metaphor, this concept of the simultaneously finite and infinite parallels a structural, intertextual reference to One Thousand and One Arabian Nights—what one critic calls "Scheherazade's famous telling of Middle Eastern folktales in order to ward off death."2 Both references highlight that this novel, which explores the story of two men's grief and their campaign for peace against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is about chaos and order, the controlled and the uncontrollable—and it pursues this tension thematically as well as structurally. I want to consider another reference that I believe has thus far been overlooked, but which offers a powerful intertextual gesture toward the author's intentions: McCann's structural indebtedness to W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming." Readings of Apeirogon have focused predominantly on the novel's format, which layers an array of facts with specific details from the two men's lives in an expansive web that signals the complexity of their sociopolitical context. However, while it is an ambitious text built out of 1,001 chapters—some only a sentence or a phrase long—and layered with self-referential, intertextual, and imagistic connectivities, Apeirogon is nonetheless based on a firm, unmoving, and stable narrative center. Its series of chapters radiate out from [End Page 41] a thematic and structural heart: the fragile but obdurate relationship between two men, grounded in a shared grief. In this respect, Apeirogon creates an inter-textual conversation with "The Second Coming." It uses the structure and imagery of the earlier poem, such as a "widening gyre" and birds, and the common geographical location to engage Yeats's vision.3 McCann displays once again his hopeful faith in empathy and relationships as stabilizing resources against conflict and trauma. Apeirogon is a biofictional text.4 It explores the history and relationship of two real men, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan—a Palestinian and Israeli, respectively—both of whom lost their young daughters, Abir and Smadar, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The novel is based on interviews with the two, who now campaign internationally for resolution to this entrenched conflict. It also relates their respective histories as young men: Aramin spent seven years in an Israeli prison, while Elhanan fought in the Israeli army and was subsequently apolitical—until his daughter's death. Yet, as noted above, this is not a simple or linear narrative. As Ben Libman observes in his review of the novel, "Apeirogon proceeds to build an archive of seemingly disparate facts, anecdotes, and myths around the story of these two 'combatants for peace'" (a point to which I will return).5 The "chapters" count up from 1 to 500, followed by chapter 1001, which is a synopsis of the events of the novel (i.e., the meeting in Beit Jala where McCann was among an audience convened to listen to Aramin and Elhanan's stories). The narrative then counts down again from 500 to 1. Chapter 500 in both halves of the novel are the respective testimonies of Elhanan and Aramin. As Julie Orringer notes, "By placing them at the center of the book, and by setting them off formally, McCann [End Page 42] indicates their primary importance in the novel."6 The author also conspicuously disappears in that narrative moment, foregrounding his subjects' points of view and privileging their stories within his own.7 Outside of that stable core, however, there is a lot happening. Certain chapters and concepts mirror one another in the two halves of the novel. In addition to the men's parallel testimonies, for example (both at 500), Elhanan's admission that "Arabs were just a thing to [him], remote and abstract and meaningless," mirrors Aramin's observation that "we [Arabs] need to continually prove that we are human beings" (220–21, 237). Both men also identify a parallel moment when their worldviews were irrevocably changed. On observing an Arab parent grieving...

Pela Gandong local wisdom as multicultural education model after the Ambon Conflict

The purpose of this study is to describe how Pela Gandong as a model of multicultural education has been implemented between the State Junior High School (SMPN) 9 Ambon City and the State Junior High School (SMPN) 4 Salahutu Liang, Central Maluku Regency. The Ambon conflict became a very valuable lesson for the Indonesian people, especially the Ambonese-Maluku people. That the diversity that has been bestowed must be managed properly and is a reality of life. The Ambon conflict is the largest civil conflict based on ethnicity, religion, race and ethnicity (SARA) after the fall of the Suharto government on May 21, 1998. After the Ambon conflict ended, various parties began to think about how to do peacebuilding so that similar conflicts did not happen again. One of them is implementing multicultural education based on the local wisdom values of Pela Gandong. During the Ambon conflict resolution, Pela Gandong's local wisdom became the medium. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with a case study approach. Data was collected by means of literature study, interviews, observation, and document analysis. The results show that Pela Gandong contains multicultural values that have been built by the ancestors of the Maluku people, and is currently uniting Muslim and Christian students with a local cultural approach. The implementation is done by transforming Pela Gandong values in schools and teacher exchanges. Then jointly held; scouting activities, camping, Christmas, iftar, Sports and Arts Week. Both schools were also part of the 2013 film Provocateur of Peace as a campaign for peace and the spread of multicultural values.

The Froman Peace Campaign: Pluralism in Judeo-Islamic Theology and Politics

AbstractDespite intensive diplomatic efforts, achieving peace between the Palestinian and Israeli populations remains out of reach. This study investigates a recent campaign for religious peacebuilding, focusing on the political theology of Rabbi Menachem Froman and his fellow religious peacemakers, family members, and disciples. Froman's position is twofold: First, religion is necessary for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and second, Israeli settlements should not be considered an obstacle to peace, but rather “the fingers of Israel's outstretched hand for peace.” We argue that “the Froman peace campaign” advances pluralism in both Judeo-Islamic theology and politics. It constructs a synthetic theological view incorporating principles and rituals of both religions. Politically, it promotes a plan for two states in one united confederation. By comparing the peace campaign of Rabbi Froman with that of Rabbi Michael Melchior, another well-known peacemaker, this article contributes to a growing literature on the role of theology in religious peacebuilding

ANALISIS RESEPSI NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA PALESTINA MELALUI MEDIA DONGENG PADA SISWA SD AL-ZAHRA INDONESIA

This article aims to motivated by support for the world’s peace campaign by introducing foreign (Palestinian) cultural values which are full of value of the humanity and divinity. Besides that, their sacrifice and struggle are also worth learning. The main purpose of this research is to grow the feeling of loving people abroad since they are young. The other goal (as a synchronization with the main goal) is to train children to feel sympathy and empathy as well as the form of moral and material support for the Palestinian people who are still fighting for their independence. The focus or highlight of this research is to prove that literary works in the form of dongeng can be used as a medium in conveying cultural values. The method that the researcher uses in this research is the naturalistic-qualitative. Data was collected by various techniques such as; practicing the tale entitled "About Gaza" which was delivered directly by expert pendongengs, questionnaires, and also interviews. The results of this study prove that dongeng is an effective medium in an effort to convey Palestinian cultural values to elementary school students. The evidence of the success of this research is the positive response given by the students by concretizing the impact on the respondent's behavior towards the Palestinians, namely their willingness to donate and pray and the children's determination to retell the tale to the people around them.

Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden: Communist Propaganda Strategies in the Vietnam War

This article offers a new perspective on the Swedish protests against the Vietnam War by placing it in its broader global Cold War context. As a case study on ‘people's diplomacy’ and ‘united front strategy’, it acknowledges the importance of Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the peace campaigns in Sweden and aims, as far as possible, to reconstruct Hanoi's motives, strategies and actions to create and direct Sweden's policy and opinion on the war. With the extremely generous political freedoms granted it by official Sweden, Hanoi was able to find new international allies as well as organise political propaganda manifestations from their Stockholm base. In the end, North Vietnam's version of the war as being about national liberation fought by a people united in their resistance to a foreign, genocidal, aggressor won a large enough share of the opinion in the West to force the American political leadership to give up the fight. Hanoi's Diplomatic Front in Sweden was one of the important battlefields behind that victory

AN INVESTIGATION OF CRIMES RATES USING CO-KRIGING AND INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTS IN KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA

The aim of the study is to investigates and predict the spatial variability of crimes rates using Co-kriging and inverse Distance Weight (IDW) in ten (10) Selected Local Government in Katsina State. The reported crimes to the Katsina State Police Command Consists of grievous hurt and Wound, Cattle rustling, Rape, Kidnapping, Assaults, Stealing and Burglary. The data is collected from Criminal Investigations Department Unit in Katsina State Command from 2010 to 2019. The method applied for this study was Co- Kriging Model (CK) and Inverse Distance Weight (IDW) to test the fitted Variogram Model and Spatial dependencies of variables examined. The findings predicted that, from the study areas the crimes rates likely happen in Dantamba, Sheme, Dofar-Mato, Gunya, Dankar, Rubau, Sawai, Wurma, Birinya Tsakatsa, Dankamtsa, Gardawa, and Katsalle Villages in a long run. The results also confirmed that, high level of unemployed youth and poverty rate in the study areas have a positive impact on socio-economic factors that influenced the crimes rates. The study suggests Government should encourage the youth in such localities by providing social amenities, employment opportunities, Good education, access of Road, Nearby Police stations and police outpost should be provided in each study areas. Peaceful campaign programs on dangers of Drug abuse and Trafficking, Illegal sects and sensitization of the communities on the need for peaceful co-existence. The study suggests the Government to put more emphasis on border patrol especially Kaduna, Niger, Sokoto, and Zamfara to avoid the such occurrence of crimes in the State and Local

Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022

The summer and winter Olympics share the five-ring logo. However, their social and political connotations differ. The Olympic Winter Games displays an aura of a game for the rich and powerful. A few aspiring nations intend to host this luxurious sporting festival in order to polish their international reputations as powerful actors in the global capitalist order. The cases of Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 illustrate this pattern. Wallerstein’s world-system theory is a useful conceptual tool to examine the context of each Olympics, the content of the Olympic ceremonies, the nature of athletic competitions, and the post-event political environment. Although the three nations have different historical backgrounds and different diplomatic aims, the winter Olympics provided the trio with an opportunity to construct an image of major global or regional power. Russian Olympic diplomacy in Sochi was impressive but its post-event aggression undercut its soft power exercise on the ice. South Korea acquired desired political outcomes by hosting the Olympic Winter Games and its peace campaign continued after the event. China has the potential to highlight its emerging world power status at Beijing 2022. Yet, increasing China scepticism in the West may impede its winter Olympic diplomacy.

Egyptian communist voices of peace (1947–1958)

ABSTRACT This article sets out to closely scrutinise the main phases of the campaign for peace (1947–58) undertaken by left-wing Egyptian groups. Based on exclusive first-hand Egyptian communist primary sources – archival and others, it shows that although the communists were the only Egyptian political groups to support the November 1947 UN partition resolution on Palestine, President Gamal Abdel Nasser later, during the Bandung Conference (1955), followed suit yet no concrete official actions were taken by neither the Egyptian nor the Israeli political elites before the 1956 Suez War. Following that war, the prospects for an Egyptian–Israeli peace settlement were shut off for nearly two decades.

The Role of Dagbani Movies in Promoting Peaceful Co-existence in Northern Region, Ghana

This study explores themes in Dagbani movies which enhance peace-building, and discusses cultural conflict resolution techniques employed in Dagbani movies for peace-building. Qualitative research design was employed for the study. Focus group discussions and interviews were used for data collection. The study used Agenda Setting theory as analytical framework, and undertook thematic analysis to tease out messages in the content of selected movies. It showed that Dagbani movies contain lessons on peace-building and have become reference materials for opinion leaders and peace campaigners within Dagbon. Out of 11 movies sampled, six exposed bad traditional leadership with a view to admonishing Dagbon chiefs to desist from acts that could promote conflicts. Dagbani movies, re-establish working relations among warring factions, deal with systemic issues underlying conflicts and rebuild mutual relationships. The movies advocate the use of traditional peace-building techniques for conflict resolution. The study concludes that if movie producers get the support of relevant stakeholders, Dagbon movies could be effective in resolving conflicts. It recommends that film makers solicit funding from donor agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to produce movies targeted at maintaining peace in Dagbon.
 Keywords: Dagbani Movies, Peaceful Co-existence, Chieftaincy Disputes, Conflict Resolution and Culture

Gender and the “Jews’ War”: Women, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-War Campaigns in Britain, 1938-1940

ABSTRACT The study of the gender complexion of pacifist movements has greatly expanded in recent decades, a product of the convergence of the new international history and study of transnationalism with the ever firmer rooting of women’s and gender history. Yet the study of pacifism in wartime has received less attention, and that of unlikelier pacifists emerging from the far Right even less. The British Union of Fascists and National Socialists [BU] launched its ‘Peace Campaign’ in 1938, and women fascists played leading roles on both practical and symbolic levels. It culminated in the launch of their own Women’s Peace Campaign in 1940, relying heavily on tropes of women’s innate pacifism and, more narrowly, domestic concerns in the home and on the home front. The BU’s policy shift from para-militarism to a militant non-interventionism and a racially motivated isolationism was more accurately an anti-war and stop-the-war campaign. Even before 1939, they dubbed the world war the ‘Jews’ War’, and women contributed in equal measure to the xenophobic and racialist charge of the BU’s campaign. However, situating anti-war fascist women amongst other women’s groups who organised to oppose the Second World War, in particularly in the Peace Pledge Union – which had launched a Women’s Peace Campaign in December 1939 – exposes the variegated nature of British women’s activism and attitudes from the high water mark of appeasement to the end of the Phoney War.