

Trump, Peacebuilding, and a New Approach to Global Harmony
At his second inaugural address on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump made a striking declaration: "I want to be a peacemaker, stop...


Building Peace: Linking Place, Memory, and Cultural Heritage
Quick Read: This blog explores the intricate link between cultural heritage, peace-building, and memories of violence embedded in the...


Housing Land & Property Challenges in Gaza & Syria
The UN’s displacement camps and other temporary accommodations are starting to empty as people journey back to their brutalised homes in...

Building Monuments to Amnesia and Forgetting Where They Put Them.
Is there a civically unhealthy practice of constructing overly politicised nation-building projects after conflict? After each conflict...


There are webinars then there are WEBINARS
This was a Webinar of note. The UCL’s Urban Laboratory held a Webinar called Urbicide and Horizons for City Re-making . An event in...

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Peace is Power [to do what]
Oslo’s Nobel Peace Centre, its façade is draped with the YOKO ONO slogan PEACE is POWER ... perhaps it should have read ‘PEACE is [the]...


To Talk About Hatred and Bias Crimes is to Get Close to Terror
Take a moment to reflect on the idea that, where we stand and who we are, influences what we assume - Our perspective influences our...

Working on HLP in The Middle East
This Article may help my peacebuilding colleagues understand and address HLP issues in the Middle East. I believe that developing a...


Adaptive Reuse aids Recovery
I think that the current approach to the adaptive re-use of buildings as a peacebuilding initiative suffers from many of the same...


Building A Reflexive practice
Kaufman states, “[I]n order to see the big picture you have to have an understanding of the more narrow view through which you see the...