Construction of Realities

From 5th-9th of September the ACRPJ together with Hamburg University organized a Summer school around the topic of: ‘Construction of Realities’. 

In this Summer School, we aimed to sensitize ourselves of the perspectives we have based on our identity markers gender and race in order to gain new valuable perspectives on Peace and Conflict Studies and processes. We reflected on how these identity markers influence how we perceive conflicts (intra- and inter-personal) and communicate with the world. Furthermore, we focused to increase our awareness for the perspective of others based on their identity markers in societal dimensions and conflicts. 

Students from the master program ‘Peace, Trauma and Religion’ were one group of participants of the Summer school. On this page can read the reflections of two students that participated in the summer school.

Speakers

Rosario Figari-Layus

Postdoctoral Researcher at Chair for Peace Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany Rosario Figari Layús is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Peace Studies at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen in Germany. Her areas of work and research focus on political and gender-based violence, human rights protection and peace and conflict studies.

Robert Beckford

Professor of Climate and Social Justice at the University of Winchester, UK Professor of Black Theology, the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, UK Professor of Theology, Vu University, Amsterdam Robert is an activist scholar engaged in action research across various social issues, including climate justice, reparations and dismantling structural racism. Robert produces knowledge across multiple media, including television, documentary film, BBC radio, contemporary Black urban music and radio drama productions. He has won several international awards for his broadcasting, including a BAFTA.