Stefanie Kappler

Stefanie Kappler is an Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at Durham University. She has also been director of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for Peace Studies (Liverpoll Hope University). Her main research interests include spatial approaches to peace, memory politics and the role of the arts in peace formation processes. Recent publications include Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation: Peace, Space and Place, Routledge (2017), co-authored with Annika Björkdahl, as well as journal articles in Political Geography, Peacebuilding, Memory Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Review of International Studies and Millennium – Journal of International Studies, amongst others. Stefanie has been working on externally-funded projects to investigate the connection between memory politics, cultural heritage and peacebuilding (see http://peaceandmemory.net/) as well as the role of the arts in peace formation processes (see https://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/the-art-of-peace/). She has conducted fieldwork in South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Brussels.