Peace Methods and Methodologies
This chapter gives an overview of the many methods and epistemological approaches in the multidisciplinary study of peace and conflict […]
Measuring Peace from the Bottom Up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia
In the early 1990s, a revolutionary movement emerged in the international development research community using collaborative methods and bottom-up approaches
How photography can build peace and justice in war-torn communities
This article explores how photography, combined with the Everyday Peace Indicators approach, helps war-affected communities in Colombia express and build
Everyday peace: How so-called Ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict
An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace. In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac
Collaborative Methodologies: Why, How, and for Whom?
This symposium introduces collaborative methodology (CM) as a way to make political science research more ethical, inclusive, and accurate. Instead
Not Just at Home or In The Grave: (Mis)understanding women rights in Afghanistan
This article presents an original dataset collected in predominantly rural, Eastern Afghanistan, which finds that girls’ access to education and
Everyday Peace Indicators: An effective tool for measuring hard to measure social concepts
Mainstream aid metrics often fail to capture how communities themselves define peace, justice, and wellbeing, as these are usually designed
Today is International Day of Peace. Can you measure what peace is?
Sept. 21 is the U.N. International Day of Peace, but how does the world measure peace, exactly? In the dictionary,
Everyday Peace Indicators: A way to measure and build peace
For decades, calls for greater attention to local, everyday experiences in peacebuilding have been growing. Yvette Selim and Roger Mac