Building Peace 2010 to 2019
by Oxford University
An annual conference to explore 'Building Peace' from multidisciplinary perspectives held in Oxford. The 2012 conference was entitled, ‘Disciplines of Peace’. The 2012 conference themes included exploring different aspects of the field of peace studies: the relationship between academic research and the practice of peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping; the skills needed for these practices; the way in which established academic disciplines feed into our understanding of peace and peacebuilding; and the emerging discipline of peace studies itself. How can this area of study be further developed at Oxford?
Episodes
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Climate change, ice, and the oceans' invisible forest
Professor Heather Bouman (Oxford) presents 'Climate change, ice, and the oceans' invisible forest' at the OxPeace 2019 conference.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Human fatalities and the question of sustainability in Nigeria's ranching schemes
Oluwasolape Onafowora presents 'Human fatalities and the question of sustainability in Nigeria's ranching schemes' at the 2019 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Taking back control - 'existential threat' and large group anxiety
Dr Coline Covington presents 'Taking back control - 'existential threat' and large group anxiety' at the OxPeace 2019 conference.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Population, urbanisation and health
Professor Romola Davenport (Cambridge) presents 'Population, urbanisation and health' at the OxPeace 2019 conference.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: New politics for surviving the Anthropocene
Professor Mark Maslin (UCL) presents 'New politics for surviving the Anthropocene' at OxPeace 2019.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Challenges of Addressing Food Insecurity
Brian Lander, Deputy Director, World Food Programme (WFP) presents the 'Challenges of Addressing Food Insecurity' at OxPeace 2019.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Options for a Global Food System
Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Oxford Martin School) presents 'Options for a Global Food System' at OxPeace 2019.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: How to exacerbate conflict by your response to climate change
Professor Henry Shue (Oxford) presents 'How to exacerbate conflict by your response to climate change' at OxPeace 2019.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Global Heating: too big for politics?
Professor Franz Baumann (NYU) presents 'Global Heating: too big for politics?' at OxPeace 2019.
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OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene: Conference Dinner remarks: Brian Lander, Deputy Director at the World Food Programme (WFP) in Geneva
Brian Lander opens the annual OxPeace Conference with his remarks at the Conference dinner.
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OxPeace 2018: How Business affects the chance of peace: the upside – jobs; the downside – crooks; and what to do about them
Professor Sir Paul Collier delivers the 2018 OxPeace Conference Keynote lecture, discussing ‘How Business affects the chance of peace: the upside – jobs; the downside – crooks; and what to do about them.’ Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of...
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OxPeace 2018: The economics of conflict versus the economics of peacebuilding and sustainable peace
Marcel Smits, Institute of Economics and Peace, discusses ‘The economics of conflict versus the economics of peacebuilding and sustainable peace’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Marcel Smits is the Director of the Europe Office of the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) in The Hague. Each year,...
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OxPeace 2018: Private Sector and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Colombia
Andres Ucros presents his talk on ‘Private Sector and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Colombia’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Andres Ucros is currently Director of Peace Building in the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Colombia. Colombia has suffered one of the longest internal armed conflicts in the...
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OxPeace 2018: Progressive roles of business in the South African transition
Dr Liz Carmichael discusses the ‘Progressive roles of business in the South African transition’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Dr Liz Carmichael is Emeritus Research Fellow in Theology at St John’s College, University of Oxford, and the convenor of the Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace)…
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OxPeace 2018: The Role of Commercial Banks in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Anecdotal Evidence from the DRC
Dr Sarah von Billerbeck presents her talk titled the ‘The Role of Commercial Banks in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Anecdotal Evidence from the DRC’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Sarah von Billerbeck is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and co-Director of the UN and Global Order...
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OxPeace 2018: Strategy, Innovation and Peacebuilding: lessons from Northern Ireland
Eva Grosman gives a talk on ‘Strategy, Innovation and Peacebuilding: lessons from Northern Ireland’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Eva Grosman is the Chief Executive of the Belfast based Centre for Democracy and Peace Building and Director for Public Affairs at the Centre for the Resolution of...
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OxPeace 2018: How to maximize business contributions to peace? Insights from a practitioner-researcher
Josie Lianna Kaye gives a talk titled ‘How to maximize business contributions to peace? Insights from a practitioner-researcher’ at the 2018 OxPeace Conference. Josie Lianna Kaye is the Director and Founder of TrustWorks Global, a London-based company which prevents and manages natural...
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OxPeace 2018: Equality and Business in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Building shared space and community
Tina McKenzie discusses ‘Equality and Business in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Building shared space and community’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Tina McKenzie is an award-winning business leader, having worked across Europe over the last 20 years to connect people with the right skills with...
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OxPeace 2017: How can world peace be organised?
Tangible steps that can be taken to better organise the world for peace. World peace is out of fashion: not even pacifists believe in it nowadays, wrote Susan Sontag. Yet a series of recent UN reviews came to the conclusion that peace is fundamental to the achievement of other goals. The peace...
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OxPeace 2017: Concepts and Practice of Positive Peace: Overview of the Conference
Overview of the 2017 OxPeace Conference
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OxPeace 2017: The role of school curriculum in sustainable peace-building: A case study from Sri Lanka
How schools are contributing to truth-seeking, social cohesion and active citizenship in Sri Lanka. The civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in 2009, with total defeat of the LTTE and many thousands of civilian casualties.…
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OxPeace 2017: The Role of Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Building Peace
Cultural heritage in peacebuilding This presentation was given at the Conference Dinner on May 5, 2017
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OxPeace 2017: Business: A Powerful Force for Supporting Interfaith Understanding and Peace
Business, Peace and Interfaith Understanding; Concepts and Practice of Positive Peace: Overview of the Conference, Business, Peace and Interfaith Understanding; Concepts and Practice of Positive Peace: Overview of the Conference,
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OxPeace 2017: Devolving Power to Citizens: A Path to Positive Peace in Colombia?
Discussion on whether offline and online participatory budgeting processes could foster positive peace in Colombia and, if so, under what circumstances. After fifty years of war, Colombia is about to start the implementation of an ambitious peace deal between the Government and the FARC-EP...
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OxPeace 2017: ‘Peace doesn’t exist’: Marginalised youths’ disengagement from Colombia’s peace process threatens the achievement of a lasting peace
Young participants from a conflict-affected town express their ideas about peace, which contrast starkly with the country’s dominant optimism. In the aftermath of the ‘no’ victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements’ push for peace. Violent groups…
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OxPeace 2017: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado
On peace-building in The Peace Community of San Joseì de Apartadó The Peace Community of San Joseì de Apartadó is a peasant farmer community in Urabaì subregion who declared themselves 'neutral' to the Colombian armed conflict in 1997. One of the most emblematic victims’ groups in the country…
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OxPeace 2017: Sovereign Terrain? Explosive Remnants of War
Outline some of the conceptual and practical difficulties regarding the clearance of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and reflect on the implications for states and populations in transformation. Fifteen to thirty percent (15-30%) of armaments fail to function when deployed: these include…
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OxPeace 2017: What prospects for restoring cultural heritage in Iraq?
John Curtis will describe the destruction of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Iraq, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1991 and continuing to the ravages of ISIS in 2014-2017. John Curtis will describe the destruction of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Iraq, beginning...
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OxPeace 2017: Extremists' - and Others' - Conceptions of Peace
This talk uses first person interviews to present the on-the-ground attitudes to peace in post-ISIS Iraq. The international community, led by America, regularly proclaims a commitment to the integrity of Iraq, a country bitterly and often violently divided along sectarian-ethnic lines (Arab…
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OxPeace 2017: The role of formal and non-formal education for youth agency for peace: A synthesis report on findings from Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda
Empirical insights from four country studies (Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda) on the topic of youth agency for peacebuilding. I am presenting empirical insights from four country studies (Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda) on the topic of youth agency for peacebuilding, and…
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OxPeace 2017: Peace Education in Central Africa: A public health intervention
Increasing resilience against violence is the aim of Aegis Trust’s peace education programme in Rwanda. Increasing resilience against violence is the aim of Aegis Trust’s peace education programme in Rwanda. Achieved through building empathy, critical thinking, trust and commitment to action, the...
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OxPeace 2017: Measuring Positive Peace
On the Global Peace Index, developed by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) - the world's leading measurement of country peacefulness. The Global Peace Index, developed by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP, is the world's leading measurement of country peacefulness. Through this,...
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OxPeace 2017: Sustainable Development Goals and Positive Peace
The evolution of thinking on peacebuilding in DFID, and the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. The evolution of thinking on peacebuilding in DFID, and the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Building on Goals 1-15 – on ending poverty, building strong economies and...
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OxPeace 2017: Concepts of Positive Peace in Peacebuilding Programmes
Negative Peace is when violence has stopped, but the underlying issues remain unresolved. It is thus often seen as an unsustainable peace, since violence may erupt again. Negative Peace is when violence has stopped, but the underlying issues remain unresolved. It is thus often seen as an...
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OxPeace 2016: Reconciliation and Scale
Dr Denisa Kostovicova (LSE) gives a talk in the final plenary - Conceptualizing Peace. Part of the 2016 OxPeace Conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Measuring Peace
Professor Richard Caplan (Oxford) gives a talk in the final plenary - Conceptualizing Peace. Part of the 2016 OxPeace Conference.
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OxPeace 2016: What is Peace?
Professor Peter Wallensteen (Uppsala, Notre Dame) gives a talk in the final plenary - Conceptualizing Peace. Part of the 2016 OxPeace Conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Ecocide Law: the missing Crime against Peace
Polly Higgins gives a talk in parallel session D - Environmental Peace and Conflict. Part of the 2016 Oxpeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Faith, Environment and Development: From Conflict to Cooperation
Dr Shonil Bhagwat gives a talk in parallel session D - Environmental Peace and Conflict. Part of the 2016 Oxpeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: State Building in the midst of conflict: lessons from Syria’ on evaluating DFID’s programme for capacity-building during conflict
Jon Bennett gives a talk in parallel session C - Syria: governance, conflict and peace – two practical perspectives. Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Talks, negotiations and efforts to end Syria’s conflict: missed opportunities?
Richard Barltrop gives a talk in parallel session C - Syria: governance, conflict and peace – two practical perspectives. Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: The Production of Verification
Rupert Burridge (DPhil student, Lincoln College, Oxford) gives a talk parallel session B 'Verification in arms control; Issue-linkage in peace missions; Winning control after civil wars'. Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016:Violent Non-state Groups as Peace Spoilers: Designing A Post-conflict Strategy for Colombia
Dr Annette Idler (Oxford) gives a talk for the first breakout session - Studying Conflict to Build Peace. Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: The study of war in Afghanistan: understanding the routes to peace in an era of 'perpetual war'
Dr Robert Johnson (Oxford) gives a talk for the first breakout session - Studying Conflict to Build Peace. Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Conflict within Peace Studies? A Bibliometric Survey of the Field of Peace and Conflict Studies
Prof John Gledhill (Oxford) gives a talk for the first plenary session -Studying Peace and Studying Conflict: Complementary or Competing Paradigms? Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: War and peace: two sides of the same coin?
Prof David Keen (LSE) gives a talk for the first plenary session -Studying Peace and Studying Conflict: Complementary or Competing Paradigms? Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Top-down, bottom-up and the missing middle: The nature of contemporary peace
Prof Roger Mac Ginty (Manchester Univ) gives a talk for the first plenary session -Studying Peace and Studying Conflict: Complementary or Competing Paradigms? Part of the 2016 OxPeace conference.
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OxPeace 2016: Is the world a more dangerous place today?
John Simpson CBE, World Affairs Editor, BBC News, gives the after dinner conference speech at the 2016 OxPeace Conference. In a career spanning 46 years with the BBC, John Simpson has earned a reputation as one of the world's most authoritative voices in journalism. He has covered some of the…
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OxPeace 2015: Closing Remarks
Dr Liz Carmichael closes the 2015 OxPeace Conference.
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OxPeace 2015: Key concerns in peace and security: building more peaceful and inclusive societies
Sunil Suri gives a talk for Session C of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Peace and the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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An annual conference to explore 'Building Peace' from multidisciplinary perspectives held in Oxford. The 2012 conference was entitled, ‘Disciplines of Peace’. The 2012 conference themes included exploring different aspects of the field of peace studies: the relationship between academic research and the practice of peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping; the skills needed for these practices; the way in which established academic disciplines feed into our understanding of peace and peacebuilding; and the emerging discipline of peace studies itself. How can this area of study be further developed at Oxford?
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