Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis

ISSN 2631-746X (Print) & 2631-7478 (Online)

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Released on 21 February 2023

JTPP’s Ninth Issue (Vol. 5, No. 1) deals with the broad theme of complexities of social identity in conflict.

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Contributors 3
Editor-in-Chief’s
Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER
9
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as Cross-Cutting Identities in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
The Experience of LGBTQ Israeli Human Rights Activists
ROBERT J WELLINGTON
13

Keeping Full-Scale War at Bay: Representation of the Social Boundary with Armenia in Azerbaijani Newspapers

KARINA V KOROSTELINA, KELLY CHRISTINE
BENEDICTO & MICHAEL M SWEIGA

36
Can a Postcolonial Narrative be a Peace Narrative?
Applying Social Identity Theory to History Textbooks in India and Northern Ireland

MELISSA DELURY

66
Dilemmas and New Perspectives on Zimbabwe—Lesotho—South Africa Identity Conflict

KUDAKWASHE CHIRAMBWI

87

Kaleidoscope

MEGHNA CHAKRABORTY

109
Book Reviews

ELEYAN SAWAFTA, JEREMY A RINKER

113

Released on 15 August 2022

JTPP’s Eighth Issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) focusses on the board theme of the vocation of the peacemaker; the modelling and encouraging the values of peace and restoration in a fractured/polarised world order.

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Contributors 3
Editor-in-Chief’s
Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER
9
‘Dear Friend’: The Practice of Nonviolence in Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler
KELLY RAE KRAEMER
13

Search for Peace by Analysing the Political Psychology of Berlin Wall Crossers

KRISTEN RENWICK MONROE & BENJAMIN HOYT

33
Empowering One Health Peacemakers

DIANA CHIGAS, DEBORAH KOCHEVAR, IAN JOHNSTONE and ELIZABETH MCCLINTOCK

54
Divergent Electoral Policy Preferences in the United States: Causes, Impacts, and Potential Solutions

DIANA BRANDUSE & STEPHEN J CHAPMAN

85

Between Peaceful Coexistence and Realism: Understanding India’s Dilemma and Nuanced Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

REKHA DATTA

106

Kaleidoscope

MEGHNA CHAKRABORTY

133
Book Reviews

JEREMY A RINKER & DEAN J JOHNSON

137

Released on 21 February 2022

JTPP’s Seventh Issue (Vol. 4, No. 1) focusses on Health, Equity and Peacebuilding as its broad theme.

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Our Contributors 3
Editors’ Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER
7
COVID-19 and Dreams of a
Radical Re-visioning of Global Health Engagement
JAMES R WALKER
13
Black is Beautiful and, also Traumatising:
A Story of Everyday Trauma in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
G MICHELLE COLLINS-SIBLEY
28
Healing of the Divided Brain in a Divided World:
Two Pandemics to Integrate
JUNE GORMAN
47
The Question of Caste in the Time of Pandemic
SANTI SARKAR
75
Do Insurance-based Health Policies Benefit the Poor?
The Indian Experience
SALONI & SUSHIL KUMAR
93
In Dialogue with a Public Intellectual: An Interview with

DR RANABIR SAMADDAR by Dr SIBAJI PRATIM BASU

113
Kaleidoscope
NILANJAN DUTTA
121
Book Review REKHA DATTA, TIMOTHY KAUER & CORINNE GUNTER 124

Released on 15 August 2021

JTPP’s Sixth Issue (Vol. 3, No. 2) challenges the definition and role of intellectuals in the contemporary public sphere.

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Our Contributors 3
Editors’ Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER
7
Young Peacebuilders Challenge Traditional Knowledge Creation
KATRINA LECLERC & SHADI ROUHSHAHBAZ
16
Bridging Academia in the Global North and South:
Challenges and Opportunities
MARIA KARDASHEVSKAYA & AGUS HERU SETIAWAN
41
The Making of a Black Public Intellectual: A Progressive in the Academy
KIMBERLY MAYFIELD LYNCH
62
Pan-African/Black Public Intellectuals as Beacons of Hope:
Possibilities of Counterhegemonic Narratives in Higher Education
ALEX OTIENO
83
Public Intellectuals in Private Universities:
An Edenic Parable from India
NANDINI DHAR
109
In Dialogue with a Young Public Intellectual

JTPP Editor’s Interview with Anti-caste Activist Dr Suraj Yengde

132
Kaleidoscope
NILANJAN DUTTA
138
Book Review MARC CARON & MICHELLE COLLINS-SIBLEY 142
In Memoriam DR TERRY D BEITZEL (1967-2021) 149

Released on 21 February 2021

JTPP’s fifth issue (Vol. 3, No. 1) deals with the complex interplay between healing and justice, especially addressing the relationship between achieving justice while also empowering both individual and collective healing.

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Publisher’s Greetings
ABHIJIT MAZUMDER
4
Our Contributors 5
Co-Editors’ Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER & DANIEL RHODES
9
Re-Defining Justice and Creating Pathways for Healing:
The Limits of the US Legal System and the
Promise of Politicised Healing as a Model for
Redressing Racialised Harm
DAVID ANDERSON HOOKER & SHEILA A BEDI
17
Photography Healing and Justice in Appalachia
JOE COLE
46
Addressing Clerical Sexual Abuse through
Restorative Justice: A Search for Empowerment and
Collective Healing
JONATHAN CHUKWUEMEKA MADU
75
Traditional Livelihoods and the Idea of Gender Justice:
A Study of the Minority Women of Varanasi in the
Area of Art and Craft
SALONI & SUSHIL KUMAR
96
Embracing an Ecosocial Worldview for Climate Justice
and Collective Healing
SANDRA ENGSTROM & MEREDITH C F POWERS
120
Mapping Digital Justice: Across the Great Divide,
Towards a Sanctuary for All
RANDALL AMSTER
145
Kaleidoscope
Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA
167
Book Review JUSTIN HARMON, JEREMY A RINKER & CATHRYNE SCHMITZ 170

Released on 15 August 2020

JTPP’s fourth issue (Vol. 2, No. 2) examines, in exciting and innovative ways, the role of religion in conflict and peace, with transdisciplinary explorations of the complicated religious dynamics in social, cultural, and political life.

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List of Contributors 5
Editor’s Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER 
10
Is an Oath to Hitler also an Oath to God? The Debate about Loyalty Oaths in Germany: 1934-1945 EDMUND PRIES 16
Religious and Secular Forgiveness in the Contemporary World WIM LAVEN 36
The National Chief Imam of Ghana: Religious Leadership and Peacebuilding in an Emerging Democracy OKECHUKWU C IHEDURU 66
Interfaith Dialogue on Religious Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence in Nigeria: Practitioners’ Experience
BOSEDE AWODOLA & OLALEKAN A BABATUNDE
99
The Role of Religion in Building Terrains of Peace SHOMA CHOUDHURY LAHIRI, MIHO IWATA &
BANDANA PURKAYASTHA
119
Role of Sunday Schools in Peace Education in Karachi, Pakistan MUNIR LALANI, SARFAROZ NIYOZOV & ASTER ASIF SARDAR 143
Promoting Cultures of Peace: Reflections on SokaGakkai International (SGI) Buddhism’s Contributions to Peacebuilding
ALEX OTIENO
170
Engaged Buddhism Buddhist Nationalism Charges of Genocide towards Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar DANIEL RHODES 194
Kaleidoscope
Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA 
218
Book Review DANIEL RHODES 221

Released on 30 January 2020

JTPP’s third issue is focused on exploring the limits of our current neoliberal capitalist ethos and cultural mindset. In this issue, one will find examples of peace researchers and activists challenging the realities of neoliberalism in the institutions of the media, on university campuses, and after natural disasters.

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List of Contributors 5
Editor’s Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY A RINKER
10
Mobilising Shared Strengths for Collective Peacebuilding with Newcomers
MAUREEN K PORTER, NORBERT FRIETERS-REERMAN, STEPHANIE LANGLEY, SUSAN DAWKINS and ANKE REERMAN
16
A Pedagogy of Resistance: Reflections on Teaching Love and Indignation in a Neoliberal University RACHEL HALFRIDA CUNLIFFE 39
Transcending the ‘Neoliberal Self’ for Positive Peace: A New Balance between Individualism and Collectivism
AYÇA DEMET ATAY
64
A Social Media Study of Neoliberal Populist Hegemony
GAURAV SHAH
82
‘We are More, and We are Not Afraid’—Puerto Rican Summer 2019
MARTHA QUIÑONES DOMÍNGUEZ
105
Excavating to Educate under Hidden Neoliberal Value Systems
JUNE GORMAN
130
Resisting the Neoliberal University: Situating Resistance in Critical Pedagogy
JUSTIN HARMON, JOE COLE, DANIEL RHODES & JEREMY A RINKER
155
Kaleidoscope
Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA
178
Book Review
DANIEL RHODES & SCOTTY PETERSON
181

Released on 21 July 2019

JTPP’s second issue deals with the true human costs of social conflict on institutions, communities, and the public good which seem to be slowly eroding in the current era of populist and authoritarian politics the world over.

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List of Contributors 5
Editor’s Welcome and Introduction
Dr Jeremy Rinker, Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Peace & Conflict Studies,  University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
9
The ‘Normality’ of Social Conflicts: Why Post-War Political Instability Might (Sometimes) be a Good Thing
Dr Kathia Légaré, Professor (Part-Time), Saint-Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
15
Science and Art of Peace
Dr Samir Kumar Das, Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, India
32
Human Costs in Cleavage-Based Politics in the United States
Dr Stephen J Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Monmouth University, USA
52
When the Local is Global: Critical Pedagogy as Practice
Dr Daniel Rhodes, Director, Undergraduate Social Work Programme, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
75
Human Costs of Conflict in Nigeria: Roles and Responsibilities of Stakeholders
Dr Bosede Awodola, Head, National Peace Academy & Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Nigeria
98
Human Costs of Reconciliation on South African Women in the South African Freedom (or Anti-Apartheid) Movement
Dr Narissa Ramdhani, Director, Ifa Lethu Foundation, South Africa & Director, Resource Mobilisation, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
118
(Re)Claiming Human Dignity
Dr Amanda Smith Byron, Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution, Portland State University, USA
138
Restoring Trust in the Self through Failure: An Exploration of Singing as Reflective Practice and its Role in Nonviolent Social Change
Dr Lauren Michelle Levesque, Assistant Professor, Providence School of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality, Saint-Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
154
Kaleidoscope
Curated by Nilanjan Dutta, Associate Editor, JTPP
174
Book Review
Nilanjan Dutta & Noor Ghazi, PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
178

Released on 30 January 2019

In the inaugural issue, the complex conflictual themes and relational dynamics exposed by human’s ongoing late capitalist environmental degradation have been explored.

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List of Contributors 3
Editor’s Welcome and Introduction
JEREMY RINKER, Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
7
Environmental Degradation: Communities Forging a Path Forward
LACEY M. SLOAN, Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Vermont, USA & CATHRYNE L. SCHMITZ, Professor Emeritus in Social Work, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
13
Peering through Frames at Conflict and Change:Transition in the Los Angeles Urban Water System
MARCIA HALE, Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA & STEPHANIE PINCETL, Founding Director and Professor-in-Residence, California Centre for Sustainable Communities at University of California at Loss Angeles, USA
39
Farmers Facing Climate Change in Southern Zambia
RICHARD ‘DREW’ MARCANTONIO, Ph.D. candidate in Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Anthropology Department, University of Notre Dame, USA, & CATHERINE BOLTEN, Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA
61
Gas Flaring, Environmental Degradation and Community Agitation in West Africa
VANDY KANYAKO, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution Programme, Portland State University, USA
85
The Batak Toba Women: Why Radical Rightful Resistance?
MARIA KARDASHEVSKAYA, Ph.D. candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
105
Killing Time: Environmental Crimes and the Restoration of the Future
RANDALL AMSTER, Professor & Head, Justice & Peace Studies; Environmental Studies, Georgetown University, USA
131
Neoliberal Bio-politics and the Animal Question
GWEN HUNNICUTT, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
151
Recognising the Role Eco-grief Plays in Responding to Environmental Degradation
SANDRA ENGSTROM, Lecturer in Social Work, University of Stirling, Scotland
168
Kaleidoscope
Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA, Associate Editor, JTPP
187
Book Review
BANDANA PURKAYASTHA, Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA & KOYEL KHAN, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology Department, University of Connecticut, USA
191