Spaces of Peace

Björkdahl, Annika; Kappler, Stefanie

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9

Spaces of Peace

Björkdahl, Annika; Kappler, Stefanie

Authors

Annika Björkdahl

Professor Stefanie Kappler stefanie.kappler@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

Oliver P. Richmond
Editor

Gëzim Visoka
Editor

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

Acceptance Date	Oct 4, 2020
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