The Peace with Justice Network team (Professor Tejendra Pherali, Dr Laila Kadiwal and Professor Elaine Chase) presented a paper entitled ‘Co-constructing understandings of Peace and Justice: Emerging learning from the Peace and Justice Network’ at the BAICE Conference (13-15 September) in Edinburgh. The paper was presented under the sub-theme of Partnerships in Conflict.
This paper presented some of the emerging insights from online dialogues within the Peace with Justice network in relation to (i) how across eight different contexts of the network peace is threatened by repressive states and armed groups that promote homogenising political visions, neoliberal capitalism and monolithic national identities at the expense of diverse and interconnected cultural subjectivities; (ii) what might constitute territorial, political and cultural justice within and across these contexts; and (iii) implications for theory, policy and practice for building peace, justice and trust guided and led by the knowledge and lived experiences of indigenous marginalised communities.
The discussion that followed generated insightful ideas around epistemic justice, decolonisation of knowledge production and allyship in struggle for grassroots movements for peace and justice.