Culture

Challenges and Possibilities

Bibliographic Data

ID20043645
AuthorsMorgan Briggs (0000-0003-2034-1702, University of St Andrews, corresponding author), Morgan Brigg
Year2010
Pages329-346
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePalgrave Advances in Peacebuilding (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230282681_18
OpenAlexW83213422
ISBN9780230282681
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited42

Culture matters for peace and conflict studies. The ways in which individuals and groups make meaning of their social and physical world, and the values, beliefs and processes that are reproduced through this meaning-making, have implications for how conflicts are waged and resolution pursued, and for the ideas and practices that constitute peace. The starkest examples in recent decades relate to how culture can be mobilised to fuel conflict. Equally, local cultural processes are increasingly recognised as valuable ways to manage conflicts, and to reconcile communities in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts. This recognition of the importance of culture has emerged partly through bitter or practical experience, and partly as a result of persistent and coherent arguments by scholars from a range of disciplines about the significance of culture for peace and conflict studies

Conflict resolution · Cultural conflict · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Peacebuilding and International Security

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