Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This case study presents a project in which peacebuilding dialogue methodologies were adapted for use in municipal‐level dialogue sessions that took place in Calgary, Canada in late 2022 and early 2023. The authors found that using this approach built trust among cross‐sectoral participants and facilitators, resulted in greater diversity ...
Aleem Bharwani, Josh Nadeau
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
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Finding the far right online: an exploratory study of white supremacist websites [PDF]
, 2009 White supremacists and the Far Right political movement in the UK have, had considerable success in spreading their messages through Web sites. Some of these Web sites clearly contribute to an enabling environment for racially motivated violence in our ...
Sutton, M, Wright, C
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Sociological and Human Developmental Explanations of Crime: Conflict or Consensus [PDF]
, 1985 This paper examines multidisciplinary correlates of delinquency in an attempt to integrate sociological and environmental theories of crime with human developmental and biological explanations of crime.
Andrew June +62 more
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Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities [PDF]
, 2021 David Rodríguez Goyes +7 more
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart +3 more
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Decolonising Criminology? We’re Not Interested: Indigenous Refusal and the Limits of the Discipline
Journal of Global IndigeneityOver recent years, long-standing tensions between criminology and Indigenous scholars in Australasia have intensified. These tensions arise from several sources: the continued support some non-Indigenous criminologists give to the settler-colonial state ...
Juan Tauri
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Doing Marginalized Motherhood: Identities and Practices among Incarcerated Women in Mexico
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021 This study examines the mothering practices and identities of incarcerated women in Mexico. Data gathered from repeated life-story interviews with 12 women, were analyzed to describe mothering practices in the different phases of incarcerated women’s ...
Sveinung Sandberg +2 more
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Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference [PDF]
, 2020 The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event ethnography, we examine the Conference as a site where key actors defined the ...
Dickinson, Hannah +5 more
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina +6 more
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