Welcome to WikiProject Peace. Several Wikipedians (have formed or are seeing if they can form (UPDATE!)) this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's theoretical and empirical coverage of
peace processes and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please
add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the
talk page, and see the
to-do list, below.
This will not be proposed as a formal WikiProject unless about 6 to 12 editors add their names and are clearly active in editing related pages and in communicating with one another as a cohesive editorial group :). The aim is to move this page (together with the talk page) to WP: space if a critical mass is found. 22:10, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Goals
While military conflicts have got and continue to get, as of February 2022[update], huge amounts of academic and media attention, detailed theoretical and empirical coverage of
peace processes gets much less attention, and correspondingly, much fewer and lower quality Wikipedia articles. The aim of this project is to improve the coverage of late XXth and early XXIst century research and other
reliably sourced knowledge on these processes.
Scope
As of February 2022[update], the Wikipedia article
Peace is very broad, and has a huge amount of material on prizes, religious ideas of peace, beliefs, monuments, and only a small fraction covers XXth+XXIst century research and organisations involved concretely in
confidence-building measures and other processes. While this project might want to consider debating the best structure for the particular article "
Peace", the main focus should be on:
peace processes, especially (though not only) modern-day (late XXth and early XXIst century) peace processes, (preferably from peer-reviewed research and preferably concrete processes rather than abstract principles)
peace journalism (as of February 2022[update], the basic theme of the article seems valid and WP:RS'd, but the article is more or less an essay advertising a single peace journalist)
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Groups of articles
peace process-related articles – general improvement, more
WP:RS, clarity in listing multiple, overlapping definitions by institutional sources and peace researchers
institutions – add missing institutions (
arms control has a list); improve quality of existing articles
national and international agreements – add missing agreements, improve quality of existing articles
arms control – for XXth, XXIst centuries, currently mostly only covers nuclear arms control, and has some good lists; specific regional arms control mechanisms showing history and their interlocking relationships are needed:
create good diagrams for understanding this long history and list of arms control agreements/processes
research – Are there sources on questions such as: is the number of research institutes/university departments as tiny as it seems? meta-research about peace research (e.g. compare research budgets, numbers of researchers, between military studies vs peace studies – is military research "bigger" by a factor or 10 or 100 or 1000 or 10000?) Answers would probably go into
peace and conflict studies.
peace journalism – completely rewrite this article, using sources that are mostly independent of the peace journalist prominently starring in the current version (as of 9 February 2022[update])
ICC judges – critical to long-term peace (as of 2022-03-12, 2022-07-15 as of 14 February 2024[update], these four, three two former judges are red links):
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
Boud (
talk) (I would very much like this project to be viable, but my contributions will be sporadic, without promises of sustained editing. A critical mass of editors would be needed for the project to be viable. I generally don't work articles up to
Featured articles status; other people would need to do that.) 22:06, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Bookku (
talk) Though my participation in directly related topics will be limited, Still since I promote articles/ drafts on topics having information or knowledge gap following drafts seem to be indirectly important for peace related discussions IMHO. So requesting article expansion help in
Draft:Civil life in conflict zones and
Draft:Women, conflict and conflict zones. I also suppose researching and discussing including criticizing
Bias in curricula (also media drama movies preaching) then
hate speech in each and every country and religious schools and institutions can ultimately benefit peace processes.I also do recommend topic of
Logic. 13 February 2022
511KeV (
talk·contribs) (This Wikiproject can prove helpful in bridging the gap under the white flag. I will be pleased to carry one.) 13:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Thriley (
talk) (Would be happy to create start class articles and expand current ones.) 04:38, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
XTheBedrockX (
talk) (Happy to contribute to articles that analyze peace negotiations and their outcomes. I can't guarantee I'll always be active, but if a topic interests me, I'll probably contribute to it) 23:31, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Articles
Featured content
Candidates
New articles
Please feel free to list your new Peace-process-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the
Did you know? box on the Wikipedia
Main Page.
We need a category such as
Category:Peace research institutes for university type research institutes into peace processes (any alternative suggestions for names?):
Category:Peace organizations is mostly a mix of grassroots peace groups together with state and interstate peace-related institutions, but it does seem to have some peace research institutes either directly or in its sub- or sub-sub- categories
when is a military defensive or legally justified? which military force did what and when, and what is its "current" composition? many editors may be interested in contributing to both projects
war usually involves the massive violation of human rights, especially the
right to life. Efforts to build a
positive peace as opposed to
negative peace (mere absence of large scale violence) incorporate the protection of human rights.
research generally indicates that peace processes are
more effective and last longer when women play a major role in the decision-making of the peace processes; WiR participants may be interested in adding articles for women peace researchers or women or women's groups participating in or leading peace process institutions (including early XXth century: see the 1919
Inter-Allied Women's Conference)