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Shengyuan Ji, December 2022 Radicalisation The term ‘radicalisation’ has been defined as the process by which someone is encouraged to develop extreme views or beliefs in support of terrorist groups and activities’ . This definition is very vague; indeed, it does not really provide a definition for the term itself, but leans on two other very loaded … Read more

Christy Forshaw, June 2023 Latin America has seen a prevalence of violent political instability in the past century. Coinciding with this, the past century has also been a time of literary growth in the region, most commonly as a result of the ‘boom’ of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] As a result, analysis of Latin American literature … Read more

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Whatever we inherit from the fortunateWe have taken from the defeatedWhat they had to leave us – a symbol:A symbol perfected in death T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962. (London: Faber and Faber, 1974): 220 I hae mair ado than I can manage the day, foreby ganging to houk up hunder-year-auld-banes. James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and … Read more

Ekin Cotuk has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her research is on language, linguistics, and peacebuilding.   She has written a total of 5 blogs on the subject of peace linguistics, using a variety of case studies and providing bibliographies for each. The fifth of these appears below, and … Read more

Ekin Cotuk has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her research is on language, linguistics, and peacebuilding.   She has written a total of 5 blogs on the subject of peace linguistics, using a variety of case studies and providing bibliographies for each. The fourth of these appears below, and … Read more

Ekin Cotuk has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her research is on language, linguistics, and peacebuilding.   She has written a total of 5 blogs on the subject of peace linguistics, using a variety of case studies and providing bibliographies for each. The third of these appears below, and … Read more

Ekin Cotuk has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her research is on language, linguistics, and peacebuilding.   She has written a total of 5 blogs on the subject of peace linguistics, using a variety of case studies and providing bibliographies for each. The second of these appears below, and … Read more

Ekin Cotuk has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her research is on language, linguistics, and peacebuilding, a topic she discusses in depth in this presentation.   She has written a total of 5 blogs on the subject of peace linguistics, using a variety of case studies and providing bibliographies for … Read more

Aimee Capraro has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2023. Her work has focused on language, language education, and its use in peacebuilding. She discusses her research in depth here. This research culminated in an essay on the potential for the Irish language to be used as a political peacebuilding tool, … Read more