A plenary session from the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Barney Afako - a scholar-practitioner of peace building, leading Ugandan human rights lawyer, and transitional justice expert - draws on his experience as an advisor to the peace process in northern Uganda and elsewhere to reflect on addressing the threat of violent conflict in Africa and beyond.

After the Abolition of Slavery and Colonialism, War as a Social Institution: The Role of England

An annual conference to explore 'Building Peace' from multidisciplinary perspectives held in Oxford. The 2012 conference was entitled, ‘Disciplines of Peace’. The 2012 conference themes included exploring different aspects of the field of peace studies: the relationship between academic research and the practice of peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping; the skills needed for these practices; the way in which established academic disciplines feed into our understanding of peace and peacebuilding; and the emerging discipline of peace studies itself.  How can this area of study be further developed at Oxford?