New Online Journal on Peacebuilding
Peace Prints: the South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding provides a forum for academics and practitioners in South Asia to share their experiences internationally while at the same time receiving insights from projects around the world. The inaugural issue focuses on strategic peacebuilding.
The articles cover a variety of issues from academic papers personal experiences. These include:
- Strategic Peacebuilding – State of the Field by Lisa Schirch
- Doing Justice, Healing Trauma – The Role of Restorative Justice in Peacebuilding by Howard Zehr
- Developing Peace Education Programs – Beyond Ethnocentrism and Violence by Kevin Kester
- Gender and Community Peacebuilding in Rural Afghanistan by Eirene Chen and Mariam Jalalzada
- Reconciliation in Gujarat by Priya Parker
- Football as Tool for Peacebuilding by Leszek A. Cwik
Peace Prints is an initiative of Women in Security Conflict Management
and Peace (WISCOMP), a South Asian non-governmental organization
working to build leadership in the areas of peace, security and
international affairs. It focuses on enhancing the role of women in
this area as well as grounding conflict management processes with
gender consciousness. WISCOMP initiatives include training and
education as well as publications in different areas. Peace
Prints is the latest addition to its resources.
According to the editorial in
the inaugural edition, “[t]he journal consists both of articles and
book reviews, some of them dealing more closely with the academic
research aspects of peacebuilding, some of them crossing horizontally
over to narratives based on personal experiences, and even to Indian
epics. The categorization of 'academic papers' and 'perspectives from
the field' has been done with a purpose to open up a much-needed
conversation between scholars and practitioners where theory is
enriched by praxis, and vice versa.” Peace Prints will be
published biannually.
November 2008
