Co-sponsored by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, this project is a collaboration between The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the Corrymeela Community. It brings together participants from universities, community organizations, faith groups, and international institutions to reflect on how peace is being contested, appropriated, and defended in the current moment, and to consider what changes are needed for peacebuilding efforts to remain legitimate and effective.
Rather than working from theory, we're asking participants to reflect on specific moments from their own experience: times when the meaning of peace was openly contested or strategically redefined, and how they responded. The goal is not to produce a single framework, but to create space for honest comparison and new thinking to emerge from practice.
This project is for preselected participants. For questions, please contact Mershon Center Associate Director Teri Murphy.