As I have been reading about healing and reconciliation practices I have been progressively attracted to identity. This is a prominent theme in our studies. I might find questions of identity interesting because it makes me think more in depth about what existence is. Or, what existence means. I might not be able to identify any particular events or conditions of life that have brought me to peacebuilding and studying other cultures in their healing initiatives - although I should continue my search for that - but I can admit to a deeper curiosity about what it means to be alive for different people, cultures, comminities. Studying identity and changes of identity exposes some of those questions?
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Why I am interested in peacebuilding
We have been asked to think about this question in research class but more in reference to a particular research project. I haven't been able to come up with a good reason as to why I am interested in the research I am choosing to do which has led me to the larger question of why I am studying peacebuilding.
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Identity from a systems perspective would be an interesting line of query, I think. Individual, family, community, regional, national, religious, gendered...all the different ways our identities are constituted, both as persons and as people (subtle but significant difference there). Keep that curiosity, Nathan!
ReplyDeleteThanks for connecting systems thinking and identity. I hadn't been so aware of making a direct connection but I like the idea.
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