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Architecture for Positive Peace: The Role of Architecture in the Process of Peacebuilding within Conflict and Postwar Contexts

Suleiman Akef, Venus

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2019, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
ABSTRACT This dissertation introduces architecture as an active platform in the process of structural conflict transformation for positive peace in post-war and conflict contexts. It is an interdisciplinary research in which architecture operationalizes the theories of peace and peacebuilding. Architecture for/of positive peace is also a response to the United Nations’ objectives in its 2030 agenda for sustainable development through a subject as distinct as architecture and relates it to the process of conflict transformation and sustainable peacebuilding. This research is initiated by questioning whether architecture can be employed as an active platform for positive peace. Further, it considers the role of architecture in the process of peacebuilding, its key devices, and operating characteristics. This dissertation analyzes both the existing discourses of `architecture and war’ and `architecture and peace’ to derive a set of themes and implications that reveal the role of architecture in the process of peacebuilding in post-war and conflict contexts. The research emphasizes theories of peace and peacebuilding, specifically the propositions of Johan Galtung and John Paul Lederach from the discipline of peace studies, in the aim of building a theoretical framework for peacebuilding through which it is possible to activate the role of architecture for positive peace. Based on the concluded theoretical framework, architecture for positive peace is distinguished from architecture for negative peace, and its characteristics are defined. Architecture for/of positive peace is a complex, inclusive, belonging, and common-ground platform. It manifests either as an `assemblage’ (the physical visible form of architecture), as a space of `relational identity,’ or both.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Edson Roy Cabalfin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Patrick Snadon, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
262 p.

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  • Suleiman Akef, V. (2019). Architecture for Positive Peace: The Role of Architecture in the Process of Peacebuilding within Conflict and Postwar Contexts [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1559058624350655

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Suleiman Akef, Venus. Architecture for Positive Peace: The Role of Architecture in the Process of Peacebuilding within Conflict and Postwar Contexts. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1559058624350655.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Suleiman Akef, Venus. "Architecture for Positive Peace: The Role of Architecture in the Process of Peacebuilding within Conflict and Postwar Contexts." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1559058624350655

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