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LaCore offers a reflection on creating their poem "Ode to Weelaunee Forest [Protectors]". This poem addresses the conflict surrounding the development of "Cop City" within the Weelaunee Forest. The poem is constructed in a similar format like a cento poem where words or phrases are taken from other poems and made into a collage of words.

Abstract
With the global proliferation of the liberal peace agenda, there has been an increase in attention to the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGO s) in the development and support of national peace agendas. However, with the rise of authoritarian states around the world, and the closing of civic spaces, NGO s have become constrained and limited in their actions. We often see autocratic and repressive regimes not welcoming the implementation of any initiatives that fall outside the scope of their official negotiation platforms, and therefore, limiting the participation of their citizens in unofficial peacebuilding initiatives. Through the application of the authoritarian conflict management framework, this article discusses the challenges of carrying out peacebuilding work in such non-permissive environments in the context of the South Caucasus and points out ways that local peacebuilding organizations and peace activists work around these restrictions to negotiate the reconciliation space that they are attempting to create.

In 2021, only a few locally led peacebuilding institutions worked to build bridges across the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict that had divided the two societies for over three decades. This stood in sharp contrast with the recent past, when the environment was saturated by civil society institutions promoting peace and cross-border co-operation. The reasons for the dissipation of the once-vibrant scene of institutionalized peacebuilding included the decreased European and US support for democratization and civil society, the crackdown on and stigmatization of peacebuilding, military escalation, and the Second Karabakh War. The collapse of the professionalized scene, however, was not the end of peacebuilding. As institutions retreated, decentralized online networks connecting Armenians and Azerbaijanis sprang into existence. The article explores the journey of Caucasus Edition, a peacebuilding journal, whose ongoing reflection and action cycle process led it to transform from a professional institution into a decentralized transnational network. It highlights the relative effectiveness of decentralized structures, particularly their resiliency and adaptability, compared to professionalized civil society institutions susceptible to cooptation or crackdown in non-democratic political environments.

This article presents a six-session course the author developed as an integral part of a doctoral research to explore two small groups of teachers' initial understandings of democratic peacebuilding citizenship through eliciting their narratives of practice and their emerging understandings after voluntarily participating in this non-formal professional learning initiative. Another aim of the study was to explore how their involvement in the course facilitated their own professional learning. Teacher participants were from different private schools in two relatively contrasting contexts, one in the Greater Cairo Area in Egypt and one in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada. This course sets an exemplary participatory approach to inform future research in teacher professional learning for democratic peacebuilding citizenship education in post-conflict zones, societies transitioning out of violent conflict and relatively democratic societies.

This study was launched jointly by the European Union, United Nations and World Bank in response to the conflict that erupted in the eastern Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk—known as the Donbas—where pro-Russian separatists took control over parts of the two oblasts. Despite the existence of a peace agreement (the Minsk Protocol of September 2014) and the renewal of its cease-fire provisions in February 2015, the conflict has had a significant and detrimental impact on human welfare, and on social and economic conditions generally. Of some 5.2 million people in the Donbas, at least 3.9 million have been directly affected by the conflict. In addition, the three adjoining oblasts of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv have been particularly affected by economic disruption and a heavy influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs). The conflict has also significantly deteriorated levels of social cohesion, trust, and cooperation throughout the country, which were already eroded from years of divergent and politically charged narratives about history, language, and patriotism. This guide is intended to help address reconstruction, economic recovery, and peacebuilding needs in areas affected both directly and indirectly by the conflict. Following a joint EU, UN, and WBG scoping mission to Ukraine that took place between September 29 and October 3, 2014, the three institutions agreed to organize an assessment of recovery and peacebuilding needs. The Eastern Ukraine Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment (RPA) was launched in October 2014 as a two-stage process. In view of the continuing conflict, it was decided to undertake an initial rapid assessment, covering areas under government control that would provide an analytical and programmatic baseline for recovery efforts, identify urgent interventions, and provide a basis for scaling up the responses as needs evolve on the ground. The Synthesis Report specifically provides an overview of the results of the assessment, key findings, and recommended ...