How to transcend the conceptual walls of war? How to bring together former enemies? This paper looks at Victus, a theatre group in which victims and former combatants of different armed groups in Colombia (guerrilla, paramilitary, army) united in and off the stage, in a reconciliation process mediated through art. It will sustain that this configures a sort of micro-“laboratory” of reconciliation: a common space of interaction that has allowed different actors to transcend the borders of armed conflict, to humanize the “other”, and to generate multiple processes of transformation and peacebuilding, which, despite being imperfect, are meaningful.

The paper examines the contentions and contestations over the anti-influx bills passed in 2015 by the legislature of India’s northeastern state of Manipur. Passed in the backdrop of the demand from the state’s valley-dwelling majority Meitei community for a legal framework to regulate influx of “outsiders”, the bills evoked hostile reception from the hill-dwelling tribal communities. This paper sees the contestations that ensued over the bills as an emanation of the enduring hill-valley divide in the state. The bills’ contents and various provisions, as explicated in the paper, bear the weighty imprint of the majoritarian impulses that seek to erode the extant institutional and legal safeguards for tribals. This unsettles the tribals who perceive the bills as a trespass in their distinctive constitutional status. The paper concludes by underlining the import of a cautious public policy making, lending agency to the tribals and a deliberative policy-making processes.

By relying on the methods of classical experiment, journal keeping, and focus group interview, using a random opportunistic sample of twenty students in Yaoundé, Cameroon, this mixed methods research examined how sustained practices of self-examination over a week translated into peacemaking within the lives of the self-examinants and in their social interactions. The findings of the study showed that daily routine practice of self-examination would contribute to enhancing the self-examinants’ capacities for peacemaking.

This article examines cross border resource management and how the practice affects sustainable peace in eastern Africa. It explores ways of coping with resource scarcity; examines necessary reforms and highlights holistic resource management paradigm in support of sustainable peace. Due to insufficient targeted research to generate information to multilaterally mitigate policy gaps and inform interventions on continued degradation and recurrence of resource-induced conflicts; this article consolidates knowledge towards sustainable management of shared resources to avert conflicts due to increased resource demands, structural inequalities and competition. Ensuing peace provides grounds for unlocking more opportunities and synergies towards greater regional progression. Resource scarcity perspective is used in a descriptive approach with a sample of 385 engaged through self-administered questionnaires. Findings show weak compliance and enforcement of relevant regulations, dissimilar resource management practices across borders, inadequate financing of programmes, over-dependency on resources and non-holistic approaches as main contributors to the diminishing resource base amid population growth, resource competition and conflicts. Thus, well managed resources promise stable livelihoods, economic wellness and further help avert competition and disagreements.

LGBT describes those who are drawn to other LGBT individuals. These individuals identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In India, homosexuality is nothing new. India is regarded as a nation that embraces and accepts all cultures and customs. However, Indian society is still conservative when it comes to tolerating homosexuality in the general population, and despite the fact that the LGBT community is widely accepted around the world, we still do not wish to embrace LGBT individuals in our ostensibly modern society. In India, sexual minorities are frequently the targets of hate crimes. They are taken advantage of verbally, physically, and sexually since they are easy prey. In order to better understand the LGBTQ community and treat them with respect and dignity rather than labelling them, this study presents a brief summary of the LGBTQ community as well as other glossaries and words of the same group. This review demonstrates social problems like stigma and discrimination, which are still widespread in our Indian society even after the passage of Act 377. It also demonstrates how stigma and discrimination cause mental health problems in people, which in turn lead to suicide because of the severity of their mental health issues.