

Project: GREYZONE
University of Edinburgh's GREYZONE opens applications for Summer School (June 2018), call for applications GRAYZONE of bystanders,...


Are NGOs Prepared for The Aftermath of Urban Warfare?
Patrick Cockburn, Qayyarah area, Mosul AFP/Getty According to The Economist, United Nation Peacekeepers are using the Israeli Defence...


Social Cohesion and Crisis in Syria
V&A SoundCloud: Episode 1 – The Architectural Impact of cities: Social Cohesion and Crisis in Syria "How do the cities we build influence...


"Don't design yet another shelter for refugees"
This time last year the IKEA refugee shelter was declared the worldwide Design of the Year (Scott Smith noting that "The day after the...


Dec25,2017
Introduction The liberal peace is part of a composition from which to potentially craft a key to global security issues and ultimately...


'Symbolically Circumscribed'
A charming article in the Economist, exploring the methods of rendering monuments impotent and resisting the temptations to destroy or...


Borno State Government, Plans for a Boko Haram Museum
Yomi Kazeem's article for Quartz Africa reveals the plans for a BOKO HARAM museum in Nigeria, "the government of Borno state, the worst...


Non-buildings of Cultural Significance
These beguiling images of the built environment are from an exhibition called, 'Facades', by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy....


The Peace-building Potential of Re-using Spaces
Journalist, Allan Taylor, wrote for the online magazine, 'The Atlantic' an article, Syria's Students: Going to School in a War Zone...


Precarious Existences
Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen 1998 ( Image: Kurd From Iraq, Athens Greece ) Ad van Denderen is intensely intrigued by those everyday...