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Spaces of Peace

Björkdahl, Annika LU and Kappler, Stefanie (2021) In Oxford Handbooks p.139-151
Abstract

This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of conflict obscures manifestations of peacebuilding. The analysis of a “bridge that divides” in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and a “wall that unites” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, casts light on the benefits that a spatial reading of peace can provide to understand the ways in which spatial infrastructures are lived by the people who use them. The process of space-making (the generation of meanings from a material location) will help explain the agency that emerges by the creators, users, and inhabitants of (post)conflict spaces.

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subject
keywords
Agency, Belfast, Mitrovica, Peacebuilding, Space-making
host publication
The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
series title
Oxford Handbooks
editor
Richmond, Oliver P. and Visoka, Gëzim
pages
13 pages
publisher
Oxford University Press
external identifiers
  • scopus:85131280705
ISBN
9780190904418
9780197576410
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9
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English
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