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Anti-nuclear grannies and other unexpected lessons
In November, I was invited to participate in the Global South Colloquium of CAPI: the Center for Asia-Pacific Initiatives of the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island. This year’s theme for the colloquium was “Asia in World History: Indian Ocean Perspectives.” This was the perfect place to think through issues of peace and decolonization in…
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Unlikely Allies? Asian anticolonial activists and European pacifists in interwar France
In November, I was a guest of the Research Excellence Cluster Global History of Anticolonial Thought at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. This is an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students at UBC who are investigating the multitude of ways that anticolonialism has taken shape across the globe in response to four…
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Anti-war protests, transnational solidarity and the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, c. 1961-1974
Pedro Aires Oliveira visited the Peace Movements Project on an Erasmus Teaching Mobility, on exchange from the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal). His expertise on anti-war and solidarity movements during the decolonization of Portuguese-occupied Africa is of great interest to us. As our own research projects deal with peace movements and…
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Field notes – Follow us as we head into the archives (and their surroundings)!
Talks and Reports – Follow us as we talk about our research around the world! We also welcome guest write-ups of talks and conference related to peace & decolonization.
From the Dataset – Occasionally, our dataset-in-progress draws attention to surprising nodes (or dead ends!) in peace networks, and pulls focus to individuals that initially appear only as names on a list somewhere, but turn out to be much more interesting!
The Art of Peace – Here, we review exhibitions related to peace & decolonization. Also, occasional thoughts on the aesthetic dimensions of peace movements as we encounter them in the archive.
Reading List – We started this project with group reading sessions on peace & decolonization. We keep a partial list here. Suggestions welcome!
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