Spiritan Life No. 02 -- 1990 December -- Mission Sources Justice and Peace Number 2 -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- (pg 5) -- Letter to the Readers, by David Regan, Bill Headley and Maurice Gobeil, C.S.Sp. -- (pg 7) -- Cor Unum et Anima Una, by Maurice Gobeil, C.S.Sp -- (pg 13) -- The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Theology of Inculturation, by David Regan, C.S.Sp. -- (pg 23) -- Mission at Auteuil, by Alphonse Gilbert, C.S.Sp -- (pg 27) -- A New Era of Mission and a New Missiology, by JohnO'Brien, C.S.Sp -- (pg 35) -- Mission: Clergy and Laity, by Donal V. O'Sullivan, C.S.Sp -- (pg 47) -- Towards a Spirituality of Justice and Peace, by JohnKitchen, C.S.Sp -- (pg 53) -- Challenges to Formation, by Antonio Gmyters, C.S.Sp -- (pg 67) -- What image do we project? by Maurice Gobeil, C.S.Sp -- (pg 83) -- Missionary Animation in France, by Noel Perrot, C.S.Sp. -- (pg 85)

Spiritan Life No. 03 -- 1991 August -- Mission Sources Justice and Peace Number 3 -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- (pg 5) -- This is Where We Came From, by Maurice Gobeil -- (pg 9) -- From Carrick-on-Suirto Rome, by Desmond Arigho -- (pg 19) -- Refugees in Southern Africa, by Frans Timmermans -- (pg 25) -- Algeria A Missionary Spirituality in an Islamic Context, by Rene You -- (pg 37) -- Mission "ad gentes" and Traditional Religions, by David Regan -- (pg 55) -- The Terminology and Significance of Evangelization, by Chukwuwa Okoye -- (pg 65) -- Education for a Global Justice, by Eugene Hillman -- (pg 81) -- Pentecostal Expansion in Brazil: A Question for Formation, by Antonio Gruyters -- (pg 93) -- The 500th Anniversary of The Evangelization of the Americas and the Spiritan Chapter 1992, by Bill Headley, David Regan and Maurice Gobeil -- (pg 103) -- Spiritan Life Reviews -- (pg 109) -- Other Spiritan Publications -- (pg 113)

Previous research shows that there is a demand of enhancing our understanding about the local actor as a mechanism for peacebuilding, suggesting a need for further investigation about the phenomena amid the growing complexity and decentralization of scenes in conflict. The research in this study draws together empirical data on an informal local peace committee (LPC) conducted in Laikipia, northern Kenya; a county which have experienced a multitude of conflict dynamics recently involving state and non-state actors, to know more about their role as local peacebuilders. The case is analyzed through the analytical framework of Peace Formation that have been constructed via feasible ‘post-liberal peace’ components emphasizing local agency in relation to their socio-political environment in order to maintain sustainable processes of peace on the ground. Findings shows that the informal LPC have filled a conflict management and governance vacuum by emerging; and resting on; traditional structures and critical social networks, while at the same time adjusting its services to new landscapes of conflict through illiberal practices, in turn providing explanatory power to the conditions set forward by the analytical framework. Though, findings also reveal that the informal LPC faces several challenges enforced coercively through security forces, political interests by the Kenyan Government, and even the UN-backed peace infrastructure itself. Consequently, the informal LPC expressed retaliation through violence and became accordingly an actor that enforced cycles of conflict on several fronts, instead of just working for peace. Thus, the role of the local actor as a mechanism for peacebuilding remains uncertain in this research, due to the articulation of both peace and conflict activities. In this, a new concept is briefly highlighted for the reader that seeks to move beyond static views of locality, termed ‘grey peacebuilding’.

After the fall of the Soviet Union a number of violent ethnic disputes were concluded through the establishment of ceasefires but have yet to be finalized through peace accords. This development resulted in the creation of de facto states in a setting known as ‘frozen conflicts’. These de facto states have managed to endure decades of unrecognition, stuck in a situation of “no war, no peace” and constitutes today “effective” political entities. The post-war development in these frozen conflicts has continuously surprised academia, defying pessimistic prediction of their sustainability. Following the positive, hybridized peace etymology laid out by Oliver Richmond, this thesis aims at exploring the peace- and state processes that has occurred during the Nagorno Karabakh peace process in order to explain the ambiguous developments that have been going on despite the limbo-like state of unrecognition. The relation between external and internal processes is interrogated through a periodization of key events, and thereafter a comprehensive analysis of how the processes relate to each other over time. The thesis concludes that the strong presence of identity politics regarding the historical Nagorno Karabakh favors the often violent and protective state formation process but is at least partially controlled by the international attempts at peace building. Local formations of peace do not allow for a reintegration of Nagorno Karabakh into Azerbaijan, at least not without explicit and extensive security and autonomy guarantees. Likewise, the external processes of peace and state building does not allow for local agency from Nagorno Karabakh, as it is viewed through a negative ontology of peace. The processes does provide some rather successful developments, as the almost finalized Land swap deal and the Madrid principles, but lacks the momentum of conquering the dominance of perceived or actualized violent state formation processes.