A healthy democracy needs citizens to make reflective political judgements. Sceptics argue
that reflective opinions are either nonexistent or rare. Proponents of deliberative democracy …

For deliberative democrats, the strength of any democracy is public deliberation, the
frequent and reasoned discussion between citizens on political issues. Despite all the …

There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what
reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios …

Human societies are organized into group-based hierarchies, with some groups enjoying
the privileges of being on top and others struggling at the bottom. The position groups …

People exhibit a general unwillingness to engage others on social issues for which they
disagree (eg, political elections, police funding, vaccine mandates, etc.), a phenomenon that …

Ex-combatants are generally portrayed as a security threat. I present evidence that puts the
ex-combatant threat perception in perspective for the case of Colombia. In-depth interviews …

This chapter outlines a multidimensional analytical approach to peace grounded in the field
of peace studies to suggest future research directions. This multidimensional model of …

The Colombian peace accords of 2016 involved a formal commitment to peace between the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‐People's Army (FARC‐EP in Spanish) and the …

Por lo general se estudian los procesos de reconstrucción de memoria colectiva realizados
por las víctimas de los conflictos armados. Sin embargo, en el periodo de posconflicto …

Traditional approaches to international aid deal with post-conflict risks focusing on external
safeguards for peacebuilding, leaving local social enhancers playing a subsidiary role. Trust …