Professor Stefanie Kappler

Biography	Stefanie Kappler joined Durham University in 2015. She holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Stefanie previously acted as Director of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies (Liverpool Hope University). She is particularly interested in forms of resistance against peace and has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Brussels, Kosovo and the Basque Country. Stefanie is interested in how contested memories of past violence and its legacies in the present impact upon peacebuilding efforts. She has specifically investigated the role that artists can play in peacebuilding processes to engage with demands for justice in the face of past and present forms of violence and inequality. Stefanie has been working on externally-funded projects to investigate the connection between memory politics, cultural heritage and peacebuilding (see http://peaceandmemory.net/), the role of the arts in peace formation processes (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/the-art-of-peace/home/about/) and decolonising peace education (https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/about/news/?itemno=41641).
Research Interests	Memory Politics Legacies of Violence Peacebuilding The role of art in peace formation Bosnia-Herzegovina South Africa

Biography

Stefanie Kappler joined Durham University in 2015. She holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Stefanie previously acted as Director of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies (Liverpool Hope University). She is particularly interested in forms of resistance against peace and has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Brussels, Kosovo and the Basque Country.

Stefanie is interested in how contested memories of past violence and its legacies in the present impact upon peacebuilding efforts. She has specifically investigated the role that artists can play in peacebuilding processes to engage with demands for justice in the face of past and present forms of violence and inequality.

Stefanie has been working on externally-funded projects to investigate the connection between memory politics, cultural heritage and peacebuilding (see http://peaceandmemory.net/), the role of the arts in peace formation processes (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/the-art-of-peace/home/about/) and decolonising peace education (https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/about/news/?itemno=41641).

Research Interests

Memory Politics
Legacies of Violence
Peacebuilding
The role of art in peace formation
Bosnia-Herzegovina
South Africa