Histories of Elites, Redux: Oligarchs, Families, and Power by James E. Sanders

“…This essay reviews the following works: Families in War and Peace: Chile from Colony to Nation. By Sarah C. …”
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Archipels imaginaires, voyages en insularités by Valérie Michel-Fauré

“…A favourite subject for representing exile and solitude, whether voluntary or involuntary, it is ambivalent depending on the context: an asylum or a prison, paradise or hell, synonymous with separation or reunion, arrival or departure, immensity or enclosed space, war or peace, utopia or dystopia, the profane or the sacred. …”
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The Concept of Peace in Islam and Its Relevance to International Relations by Rizki Dian nursita, Ahmad Sahide

“…Through some literature research, the author finds that the stereotype is caused by the gap in the discourse on war and peace in Islam, thus the discourse related to the peace in Islam needs to be buzzed. …”
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Peace treaty essentials in religious and legal studies of the early Arab Muslim scholars by Z.A. Chomaev

“…Muslim scientists formulated the universal rules for behavior of the ruler with the enemy both during the war and peace negotiations. A number of demands were made to the representative of Muslims and to the structure of the Treaty itself. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF PACIFISM IN THE THOUGHT OF RENAISSANCE ENGLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF XVI CENTURY by L. V. Sofronova, V. G. Tsivatyi, E. A. Grigorieva

“…The article analyzes the views of the "Oxford reformers" John Colet (1467-1519), Thomas More (1478-1535) and Erasmus (1469-1536) on war and peace. The study of their writings suggests that they have a common pacifist position and openly manifested negative attitude to the Italian wars (1494-1559). …”
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Truth Commissions and the End of History by Timo Kallinen

“… Transitional justice refers to a set of judicial initiatives that have been used in so-called post-conflict societies in transition from war to peace or from authoritarian rule to democracy. …”
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Veterans in Ruins: The Soldier’s Impossible Homecoming in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried by Lucie Jammes

“…The way in which the protagonist looks at his hometown while driving around the lake that constitutes its center point allows the gradual (re)appearance of Vietnam landscapes and events in the descriptions, until memories from the past and visions of the present superimpose completely—thereby blurring the boundaries between war and peace, between suburban America and Vietnam battlegrounds. …”
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Surviving Hiroshima: An Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa by Noelle Leslie dela Cruz

“…Against the backdrop of larger issues of war and peace, Gen’s family struggles with his father’s ideological rebellion against the nation’s militaristic rule, leading to the family’s persecution. …”
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Diasporas and conflict: distance, contiguity and spheres of engagement by Van Hear, N, Cohen, R

“…Diasporas have variously been described as war-mongers, peace-builders, or ambivalent in their influence on conflict. …”

Media and conflict: An assessment of the evidence by Schoemaker, E, Stremlau, N

“…First, it examines literature on the contribution of media in war to peace transitions, including an assessment of the evidence used to show how the media may contribute to violent conflict and how they may provoke, or hinder, post-conflict reconstruction. …”

Hostages of peace: the politics of radio liberalization in Somaliland by Stremlau, N

“…This article locates these arguments against media liberalization in the context of Somaliland's larger nation- and state-building project suggesting that in transitions from war to peace, no matter how prolonged, there are very real concerns about processes of institutionalization and the sequencing of democratic reforms. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.…”

Michael Kelly, Hilary Footitt, Myriam Salama-Carr (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict by Zvada, Ľubomír

“…They show that languages are woven into every aspect of the making of war and peace, and demonstrate how language shapes public policy and military strategy, setting frameworks and expectations. …”
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The Russian Federation Dominance in the International Security Environment by Mirosław Banasik

“…The model of the strategic influence of the Russian Federation is directed at the shaping of the security environment and includes the synchronisation of kinetic and non-kinetic measures, indirect and direct effects, the blurring of the boundaries between war and peace and the application of pressure and aggression. …”
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Interlinguocultural Approach from the Position of Contact Variantology by Anna Vladislavovna Semenova

“…Material for the research is majorly taken from the work by L.N. Tolstoy “War and Peace” in English translation. The result of the research showed that there is a contradiction between the two approaches. …”
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How can public international law contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security? by Klein Eckart

“…It discusses the roles of the League of Nations, the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and the United Nations Charter in their attempts to curb the war. Despite peace being crucial for human rights and international behavior, wars persist. …”
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PAST AND PRESENT OF THE PEACE AGENDA WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS: THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIALIST NOTION OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE by Ch.G. Fernandez, D.F. Puyana

“…War and peace perpetually alternate and peace is always seen as an endless project, even a dream, to be realised in brotherhood by everyone all over the earth. …”
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Michael Kelly, Hilary Footitt, Myriam Salama-Carr (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict by Ľubomír Zvada

“…They show that languages are woven into every aspect of the making of war and peace, and demonstrate how language shapes public policy and military strategy, setting frameworks and expectations. …”
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FIRE SYMBOLISM IN THE HOLY QUR’ÓN ANALYSIS OF CONTRARY CONNOTATION by Dr. Sardar Muhammad

“…Thus, this model is apt for verifying different meanings of the “fire” from the text of Holy Qur’Én like, cool and hot, war and peace (Safety), comfort and torment, creation, and annihilation of Jinn, sacrifice and punishment, guidance and misguidance, blessing and infliction, construction and destruction, life, and death. …”
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Turismo di guerra, turismo di pace: sguardi incrociati su Italia e Francia by Elisa Tizzoni ha conseguito il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia Contemporanea presso l’Università di Pisa ed è attualmente cultore della materia presso l’Università di Firenze; i suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano principalmente i tourism studies, analizzati da un punto di vista istituzionale e culturale, le questioni relative al rapporto città-campagna e le dinamiche del processo di integrazione europea.

“…This contribution deals with the link between tourism and the opposite concepts of war and peace during the two World Wars, comparing the Italian framework and the French one. …”
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Navigating Crisis and Chronicity in the Everyday: Former Child Soldiers in Urban Sierra Leone by Myriam Denov, Andi Buccitelli

“…Drawing on interviews with 11 former child soldiers living in an urban settlement, this article underscores the blurred distinction between periods of war and peace. Moreover, using the concept of social navigation, the paper explores the strategies the youth deliberately and tactfully employed in negotiating a volatile post-conflict terrain. …”
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