Building emergence on the ashes of conflict has been the recursive task of human beings throughout history. From the major revolutions to the two great wars, progress has usually replaced mourning to ...

Winners for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize -- one of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes -- have been announced. The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel and What Have We Done by David Wood, ...

KISHWAR NAHEED, AFZAL AHMED SYED, SATYAPAL ANAND, WUSATULLAH KHAN AND HARRIS KHALIQUE GOT TOGETHER TO DISCUSS HOW URDU LITERATURE HAS WRITTEN ABOUT WARS AND CONFLICTS, WITHIN THE SUBCONTINENT AS WELL ...

Living up to its promise of touching upon Sri Lankan post conflict concerns at an event that celebrated literature, the fifth edition of the Galle Literary Festival 2011 discussed at length the ...

The year 2014 marks 100 years since the start of World War I. What was supposed to be the war to end all wars turned out to be one of the many bloody conflicts since then. The death count of the past ...

Of late, images of conflict dominate digital and print media — injured children, rubble, weeping people, vehicles blown apart, graphic photographs from war zones. We live in a culture of war. What is ...

A new study published in PLOS ONE has found that Americans across the political spectrum tend to support censorship when literature conflicts with their own ideological values, even though most say ...

In a previous lecture, we discussed the meaning of Literature from different perspectives. We also saw the difficulty in determining the scope of the interesting subject. Today we examine certain ...

In May 1803, shortly before Robert Emmet’s rebellion, Thomas Moore was offered the Poet Laureateship of Ireland, a post that was to be created especially for him by William Wickham, Chief Secretary of ...