Spaces of Peace

Björkdahl, Annika; Kappler, Stefanie

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.

Citation

Björkdahl, A., & Kappler, S. (2021). Spaces of Peace. In O. P. Richmond, & G. Visoka (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation (139-151). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9

• Online Publication Date: Jun 9, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Oct 20, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 9, 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 139-151
• Book Title: The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation.
• ISBN: 9780190904418
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1626967
• Contract Date: Oct 4, 2020