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Thursday, February 13, 2025
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The Power of Ordinariness: Everyday Life Peacebuilding by Mothers During and After the Northern Ireland ConflictFAB5.03The Power of Ordinariness: Everyday Life Peacebuilding by Mothers During and After the Northern Ireland Conflict Dr Yumi Omori, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, Stellenbosch University 13 February, 3:15pm-4:45pm, FAB 5.03 In this lecture, the presenter discusses the importance of listening to so-called 鈥榦rdinary鈥� people in peace and conflict research, drawing on key discussions in her recently published book Everyday Life Peacebuilding and Family: Motherhood During and After 鈥楾he Troubles鈥�. The book offers a new approach to studying war and peace by foregrounding motherhood in times of conflict and peace processes from a sociological perspective. Through qualitative research resting on individual and focus group interviews with 55 mothers who had lived through the Northern Ireland conflict, the book examines the gendered nature of coping with conflict and its aftermath in peace processes. Drawing on the idea of everyday life peacebuilding, it discusses how the family is located in the processes of social transformation in conflict-affected societies, and illuminates that mothers play central yet largely unnoticed roles in maintaining and restoring sociability in a conflict-affected society. The book illustrates that mothers have been hidden and underappreciated 鈥榚veryday peacebuilders鈥�, as well as hidden and trivialised victims of the conflict. For more information and to sign up for the talks please click |