This spaces speaks to conflict management, resolution, and settlement from a more decolonial, intersectional, and critical lens. Students in their third year share their creative work & understanding of conflicts with the world here.
Humanitarian Interventions
Student: Ana Chagas Cappuzzo. This artwork revolves around some criticisms concerning humanitarian interventions.
Grenfell Tower: Problems & Solutions
Student: Jessica Burt. This storyboard depicts the problems associated with the Grenfell Tower fire and unsafe social housing more broadly and proposed solutions.
The Orientalisation of YPJ Women
Student: Evelyn Hoon. This storyboard discusses the orientalisation of Kurdish women who fight in the Kurdish Women’s Defence Units (YPJ).
Ending Segregation, Piece by Peace
Student: Laura Hampton. This comic shows how educating young people together in Northern Ireland can help end segregation ‘Peace by Piece’ to bring the peace walls down.
Where the mind is without fear
Student: Ayra Rehman. My interpretation of the poetry, written by Rabindranath Tagore, is freedom from the shackles of society that currently exist in my country for women.
Positive vs Negative Peace
Student: Nima Brivanlou. The differences between positive and negative peace can mean the difference between a temporary ceasefire, and a lasting peace.
The Gift of Friendship
Student: Ahaan Prabhat. A story about racism in everyday life and a hope for a brighter future.
Conflict Management, Resolution, & Settlement
Student: Alexa Carera. A storyboard about the blueprint in place to end homelessness in Oakland, California.
The UN in the Rwandan Genocide
Student: Annie Rigg. A storyboard that was designed, encompassing a brief map of the UN’s failures in Rwanda.
Double Standards of International Media & Conflict
Student: Avery Pusey. A storyboard aiming to address the role of international media in selective coverage.
The Kashmir Conflict
Student: Deyvin Datwani. A comic showing how the Kashmir conflict began with the partition, which positioned the Hindu and the Muslims of northern India and Pakistan against one another.
Negative Peace
Student: Diego del Ser. In this cartoon, following the life of an individual from birth to adulthood, I attempt to convey how war and its consequences affects people.
A Single Story
Student: Elena Ewence. My artwork hopes to show solutions to the “single story“ of a refugee: which is exclusively portraying a group of people with a narrative that benefits Western powers.
Welfare as a Solution to Liberal Peace Limitations
Student: Joe Walker. The idea for my comic strip was conceived through a desire to change the way in which financial resources are distributed in conflict-prone states.
Haiti Cholera
Student: Greer Hansen. This comic is a very simple illustration of the spread of Cholera through Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
The Bosnian War & Genocide
Student: Mikala Sheats. For my creative artwork piece, I gave a visual story of the Bosnian War and Genocide.
Militarised Masculinity
Student: Rory McNeight. This comic is an adaptation of a presentation which used discourse analysis to highlight how masculinity has been militarised in social media posts about the Russia-Ukraine War.
A Conversation on White Saviourism
Student: James Wakefield. This Zine addresses the important topic of White Saviourism via a conversation between two friends.
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