Literature for the admission procedure for the MA Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck – academic year 2025/2026
The following literature references refer to the admission procedure for the MA Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck and are subject of the admission procedure.
Systematic Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
- FitzGerald, Garrett (2021): Pluriversal Peacebuilding: Peace Beyond Epistemic and ontological violence, in: e-ir info, https://www.e-ir.info/2021/11/27/pluriversal-peacebuilding-peace-beyond-epistemic-and-ontological-violence/
- Sabaratnam, Meera (2013): Avatars of Eurocentrism in the Critique of the Liberal Peace, in: Security Dialogue, 44:3, pp. 259-78, https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17062/1/Sabaratnam%20-%20Avatars%20of%20Eurocentrism%20-%20post-print%20version.pdf
Methods and Discourses of Peace and Conflict Studies
- Söderström, Johanna & Elisabeth Olivius (2022): Pluralism, Temporality and Affect – Methodological Challenges of Making Peace Researchable, in: Conflict, Security & Development, 22:5, pp. 411-433, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2123218 https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1727260/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Thambinathan, Vivetha, & Kinsella, Elizabeth Anne (2021): Decolonizing Methodologies in Qualitative Research: Creating Spaces for Transformative Praxis, in: International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211014766
Current Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies
- Illich, Ivan (1981): Peace Vs. Development, in: Democracy, 2, pp. 53–60, https://democracyjournalarchive.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/illach_peace-vs-development-democracy-2-1_-jan-1981.pdf
- Gomes, Alberto (2018): Lessons from the Margin: Indigenous Peace Ecology, in: Organicom 15:28, pp. 149-166, https://www.revistas.usp.br/organicom/article/download/150579/147389/312425
Exemplary Case Discussions in Peace and Conflict Studies
- Scott, Byron T., Carolina Escudero & Anya Litvak (2007): Media, Memory, and Forgiveness: Case Studies in South Africa and Argentina's Conflict Resolution Processes, in: Journal of Dispute Solution 1, pp. 1-6, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217049923.pdf
- Sanford, Victoria (2008): From Genocide to Feminicide: Impunity and Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Guatemala, in: Journal of Human Rights, 7:2, pp. 104-122 DOI:10.1080/14754830802070192 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228496595_From_Genocide_to_Feminicide_Impunity_and_Human_Rights_in_Twenty-First_Century_Guatemala