The last time I read Homer’s ‘Iliad’ was in my Year 11 Classics class, but it’s the text that first came to mind when Joe Zizek brought up the topic of how we should discuss past violence. The ‘Iliad’ may be of hotly-debated...
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Hi Team. This came across my FB feed. One more of the travesties of...
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While talking about international campaigns and how they work, Thomas Nash talked about there...
Read MoreHi team! This popped up over the weekend on the history department FB page and I think it raises some interesting and important questions about war, memory and commemoration. And what we choose to focus on. Particularly relevant...
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This year, amidst the lock down and the chaos, many New Zealanders are planning the long, arduous...
Read MoreAs coronavirus ravages through the world, I feel odd basking in inner peace. Solitude, and time with my family have left me with hours to enjoy the simpler pleasures that life normally gets in the way of. Picking out tomorrow’s...
Read MoreWhat language is the Bible in? There’s no clear answer to this question, given that the Bible is constructed from many disparate parts that in places contradict each other, written in many languages and translated over and...
Read MoreAn unnerving idea proposed in Sinisa Malesevic’s The Sociology of War and Violence I keep returning to is that war is necessary in order to facilitate rapid progress. Although I largely brushed it aside as the product of...
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When assessing preparedness for conflict, the institutions for peace conflict with the absence of historical precedent. Hence we must look beyond our borders to observe foreign response to conflict: in doing so we facilitate the transformation of livelihood and relationships in a domestic context of conflict.
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