Theme in the Politics of Inequality research programme
Challenging the mainstream liberal peacebuilding paradigm, the research under this subtheme examines how different forms of inequality not only lead to conflicts, but how conventional approaches at times hinder conflict transformation and conflict resolution processes making peace more difficult to achieve.
The projects under this theme focus on the relationship between conflict, inequalities, and peace. Projects consider how the politics of inequality operates through forms of epistemic injustice and the marginalisation of particular actors within conflict situations, as well as examining the agency and forms of collective action that emerge to transform those politics and processes.
This research consists of two ongoing projects: