Indicators of peace: in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada “it depends who you are:” an exploratory case study of the saliency of quantitative positive peace measures

dc.contributor.authorLindsay, Preston
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeSenehi, Jessica (Peace and Conflict Studies)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMilgrom, Richard (City Planning)
dc.contributor.guestmembersBroome, Benjamin (Arizona State University Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)
dc.contributor.supervisorByrne, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T16:40:19Z
dc.date.available2024-03-14T16:40:19Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-21
dc.date.submitted2024-02-25T19:40:46Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplinePeace and Conflict Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.description.abstractWinnipeg is a city regarded in Canada as the city in the middle. It is, in fact, geographically at the heart of the North American Continent. It is also situated currently as a city of prevalent racism and injustice. It is also a city where there is consistent and prevalent peace work as well. It would seem Winnipeg is a city divided. Winnipeg served for thousands of years as a place for Indigenous Nations to gather, trade, and share culture. The decades and centuries that followed first contact replaced these systems with infrastructures and cultures of oppression and violence, exacting painful tolls on Indigenous Peoples and people of colour more generally. Over the last century, however, there have been social, economic, and political shifts in the city toward accepting and embracing the cultural differences it once demonized, effectively beginning the process of erecting shared cultures of peace. The purpose of the exploratory research in this study is to gauge the relative levels of positive peace or social justice in Winnipeg. To accomplish this, I drew four salient quantitative indicators from the proventive critical positive peace assessment known as the peace poles, to test their viability. To serve as a counterweight and balance to test of the measure’s saliency, representatives from four Winnipeg social organizations were undertaken to explore their ideas about positive peace in Winnipeg as the city in the middle. These four organizational representatives come from a few of the most systemically engaged organizations in the city. In this research I explored the ways in which these persons and organizations engaged in the city regarding peace, while afterward running the numbers derived from the peace poles assessment published in the Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace in 2022. These positive peace metrics—connectivity, political voice, the gini index, and sense of belonging—only further grounded and supported the themes discovered in the interviews.
dc.description.noteMay 2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38057
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectWinnipeg, peace, positive peace, history, quantification of peace, liminal peace, spatial peace, access to nature, connectivity, political voice, the forks, gini index, sense of belonging
dc.titleIndicators of peace: in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada “it depends who you are:” an exploratory case study of the saliency of quantitative positive peace measures
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayes
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