The transformation of Medellín in Colombia is well known to urbanists. A highly contested, violent and unequal city the 1980s 1990s, Medellín’s Social Urbanism ushered a series ambitious reforms that reimagined public space mobility. These were designed address challenges related violence inequality, concerns which are present both across Latin American region. In examining relationship between...

Since its first peacekeeping operation, the United Nations (UN) broadened normative framework to provide efficient responses turbulent reality of countries experiencing intrastate wars. Back in 1990s, UN acknowledged that conflict causes are structural and socially rooted, therefore achieving peace collapsing states would only be possible through strategy labelled as peacebuilding, aimed at lon...

The contemporary Brazilian context offers a growing artistic and cultural production, generated by LGBTQIA+ subjects, which disputes narratives sensitivity, suggests new ways of being in the social world. This article looks at how such artistic-cultural production can bring critiques contributions on peacebuilding. questions to think peacebuilding from queer perspectives: it confronts with diss...

Conventional assumptions locating peacebuilding temporally after violence have largely prevented exploration of how is practiced amidst conditions ongoing violence. This article ad...

As climate change increasingly affects the world, much is said about rising amounts of aid required to support emergency response, long-term development adapt, and peacebuilding ensure that conflict does not undermine these efforts. Bringing ideas together, some advocate for addition a separate stream into humanitarian, development, peace/peacebuilding nexus (or triple nexus). Based on critical...

This is the summary report, which can be accessed at and as well as in the " CSS Environment and Conflict Transformation " Series (www.isn.ethz.ch > " Publishing House " > " Publication Series "). An 18-page summary of this full report can be accessed at the same websites. The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a Swiss academic center of com...