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Brokerage in Oceania reconsidered: Positionality, agency, morality in a (dis)ordered world
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper introduces a special issue examining brokerage in Oceania amid intensifying geopolitical competition, resource extraction, labour mobility and shifting development regimes. Building on renewed global interest in brokerage as a set of practices, we argue that brokers in Oceania operate within—and actively reshape—conditions of ...
Monica Minnegal
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A ‘Local’ Response to Peacebuilding Efforts in Timor-Leste [PDF]
, 2018 Many international agencies and donors that have implemented peacebuilding activities in a variety of countries and situations acknowledge, in theory, the importance of placing local communities at the center of peacebuilding activities.
1225, Tanaka, Yukako Sakabe
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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone.
Viktorova Milne, Jevgenia
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Ecology and SocietyOver the past years, the natural environment has increasingly become instrumental in peace policies and the focus of study in peace and conflict research.
Maria Andrea Nardi, Alice Kasznar
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsClimate adaptation programs that promote climate-smart agricultural technologies, practices, and services are widely recognized for their role in strengthening resilience.
Carolina Sarzana +5 more
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When Does Hope Drive Social Change? Empirical Insights and Their Policy Implications
Social Issues and Policy Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, December 2026.ABSTRACT When and how does people's hope for change drive social transformation? This question has gained urgency amidst the profound sociopolitical crises of the 21st century, including escalating intergroup conflicts, accelerating environmental degradation, and mounting threats to democracy.
Oded Adomi Leshem, Eran Halperin
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The emergent environmental dimensions of everyday peace
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & PolicyDespite the entanglements between people and their environments in contexts of war and the aftermath, how people negotiate everyday life during peace transitions in changing environments remains largely unexplored in scholarship.
Laura E. R. Peters
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 By definition, marine protected areas (MPAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) address spatial aspects of the ecological processes and marine features.
Yael Teff-Seker +11 more
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The Making of the Right to Food: Tracing Food Policy Conflict and Negotiated Outcomes in Colombia
World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.ABSTRACT The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla group marked a historic step toward ending more than five decades of armed conflict. It also reshaped national food policy with lasting implications. During the negotiations, deep ideological divisions emerged between food sovereignty and food security, and these ...
Felipe Roa‐Clavijo
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