Online course, January 18 – March 21, 2021

Orientation

• East Coast Credit Union. (2020). The story of the Antigonish Movement [Video]. Youtube. A six-part video series of the film You can do it! The story of the Antigonish Movement.

Introduction

• TEDWomen. (2016). Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality [Video]. TED.com. (18:41 min.)

Conflict, Self and Communication

Examining Peace

• Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. (2019, November 13). Critical conversation with Roger MacGinty: The concept and practice of everyday peace [Video]. Youtube. (44:25 min.)
• Firchow, P. (2020). World peace is local peace. Ethics & International Affairs, 34(1), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000088 (StFX only)
• Laruni, E., Toogood, K., & Holdaway, L. (2020, December). Can we build peace from a distance? The impact of COVID-19 on the peacebuilding sector (Background paper). International Alert.

Analysis Tools

• Competendo. (n.d.). The ABC triangle.

Conflict Transformation Practice

• Facilitated Solutions. (2019, March 25). Perspective check [Video]. Youtube. (3:43 min.)
• TEDGlobal. (2009, July). The danger of a single story: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Video]. TED Talks. (18:34 min.)
• TEDx Talks. (2017, December 11). Finding confidence in conflict: Kwame Christian: TEDxDayton [Video]. Youtube. (11:26 min.)

Care, Health, and Peace

• Berghoff Foundation. (2020, June 16). Prospects for peace amid a global pandemic.
• International Alert. (2020). COVID-19 peacebuilding response.
• Laruni, E., Toogood, K., & Holdaway, L. (2020, December). Can we build peace from a distance? The impact of COVID-19 on the peacebuilding sector [Background paper]. International Alert.
• Saferworld. (2020). “People are living a normal life”: Challenging the myths of COVID-19 in South Sudan.
• Vaittinen, T., Donahoe, A., Kunz, R., Bára Ómarsdóttir, S., & Roohi, S. (2019). Care as everyday peacebuilding. Peacebuilding, 7(2), 194-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2019.1588453 (StFX only)

Asset-Based Community Peacebuilding

• Cutts, T., Olivier, J., Lazarus, S., Taliep, N., Cochrane, J. R., Seedat, M., van Reenen, R., Hendricks, C., & Carelse, H. (2016).  Community asset mapping for violence prevention: A comparison of views in Erijaville, South Africa and Memphis, USA. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, 14(1).
• Mathie, A., Cameron, J., & Gibson, K. (2017).  Asset-based and citizen-led development: Using a diffracted power lens to analyze the possibilities and challenges. Progress in Development Studies, 17(1),54-66. (StFX only)
• Neustaeter, R. (2007). Community peace asset mapping: Rereading our world, rereading ourselves [Round table]. Adult Education Research Conference, Halifax, NS.
• Russell, C. (n.d.). Asset-based community development: At a glance. Vibrant Communities & Tamarack Institute. (376K pdf)

Conflict And Peace Learning and Education

• Mayo, P. (2020). Praxis in Paulo Freire’s emancipatory politics. International Critical Thought, 10(3), 454-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/21598282.2020.1846585 (StFX only)

Additional Resources

• Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary ed.). Continuum. (Open access)
• Institute for Economics & Peace. (2024). Global peace index. 
• Jeder Institute. (2020, July 21). ABCD, conflict transformation and peacebuilding: Practice makes peace, part 1 [Video]. Youtube. (89:41 min.)
• Watson, C., Wright, H., Groenewald, H., & Harris, C. (2016). Gender analysis of conflict toolkit. Saferworld.