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Yes / This paper looks at community peace work in Sri Lanka, and represents work in its early stages. It provides a view of peace work from the perception of a Sri Lankan community peace activist. The popular practice of treating community peace work as an apolitical exercise will be challenged. An overview of the meta-narratives of the Sri Lankan conflict will be provided, since these inform the broader analytic context which needs to be understood for successful community peace work to be undertaken. Community peace building practice, which draws from knowledge of the international conflict resolution discourse, is treated as just one `peace¿ approach among several. Community level work is seen as one contribution to the overall peace effort in finding a resolution to the Sri Lankan conflict.

Syftet med undersökningen är att genomföra en deskriptiv studie av två nätverk inom densvenska fredsrörelsen och deras arbete samt undersöka hur de förhåller sig till social rättvisa ochsocialt arbete. Den metod som använts är kvalitativ, och datainsamling har skett via kvalitativaintervjuer med fyra respondenter. Det framkommer i dessa intervjuer att respondenterna ärorganiserade i nätverk och en del av den Svenska fredsrörelsen. De använder sig ibland av civilolydnad i symboliskt syfte för att stimulera till dialog kring frågor som vapenexport ochavrustning. Respondenterna står i sitt arbete för jämlikhet, solidaritet och deltagande. Slutsatsersom dras i denna studie är att respondenternas arbete skulle kunna ses som en form avpåverkansarbete för icke nationsbunden solidaritet med utsatta människor, någonting som skullekunna inkluderas i socialt arbete. Respondenternas arbete skulle också, i en mycket vidbemärkelse, kunna ses som en form av socialt arbete i icke statlig regi. Delar av deras arbete ärdock olagligt och således inte förenligt med traditionellt socialt arbete i Sverige som det ser utidag. / The purpose of this essay is to accomplish a descriptive study of two networks in the Swedishpeace movement and their work together with a study of how they stand in relation to socialjustice and social work. The method used is qualitative and the collection of data has been donevia qualitative interviews with four responders. It comes through in these interviews that therespondents are organized in networks and a part of the Swedish peace movement. Theysometimes work with civil disobedience in a symbolic purpose to stimulate a dialogueconcerning questions such as weapon export and disarmament. The respondents stand in theirwork for equality, solidarity and participation. Conclusions of the thesis are that the work of ourrespondents could possibly be a form of advocacy work concerning non national boundsolidarity with vulnerable people, something which could be incorporated in social work. Therespondents work could also, in a broad sense, be seen as a form of non-governmental socialwork. Part of their work is illegal though and because of that not consistent with traditionalsocial work in Sweden as it is functioning today.

This study is an attempt to understand how PNGO’s are impacted as a result of the Israel- Palestine conflict today, while touching upon issues such as the Gaza blockade, relief aid, political participation, Hamas and the PA, and the occupation. I have had the opportunity of coming into contact with four different PNGO workers based in the Gaza Strip, and conducted qualitative structured interviews with each of them. They possess key insights as they exist at the center of the research problem. Through the theoretical lens of Paul Lederach (1997) and the utilization of the Directed Content Analysis (DCA) method, the structured interviews were analyzed in order to explore both the factors that Gazan PNGO workers identified as having an effect on their organization, as well as how it affects their organizational capacity and peace work.

Abstract This microhistorical study examines the local circle of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Växjö during the years 1935 to 1967. The purpose of the essay is to contribute to research in women’s history by describing and analyzing some of the association’s members and activities. The unprinted source material consisting of the association’s protocol books provides the basis for this study.  The theoretical basis is a gender perspective and a microhistorical perspective. Short biographies highlight the background and roles of the individual members in the association. The association’s organization and activities are described too. The analysis shows the members’ solidarity with other women, for instance through helping refugees. It also shows how the members used their economic, social and cultural capital in their peace efforts, and in forming networks both among themselves and with other organisations. In short, the members’ economic, social and cultural capital enabled them to work for peace. In their efforts they both came to challenge and maintain the gender system of their time.