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Peacebuilding and communication: ‘We Are Many: Hybrid Resistance to Absolute Singularity’

Peacebuilding and communication: ‘We Are Many: Hybrid Resistance to Absolute Singularity’

By Struan Kennedy, History PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle. ‘The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future… Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)’ — from ‘The Song of Myself’ part 51 by Walt Whitman Of all the different reactions to difference two distinct possibilities emerge like forking paths after encountering the unknown. The first is fascination,...

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