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Can a name drive peace?
What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as social commentary, memory and moral aspiration, but their use as a peacebuilding practice was new to me. He gave me a few examples. A child may be called Pohisohofa (meaning listen to the other party), or Hodu Haza Hora (let it not happen again) in…
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Can a name drive peace?
What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as social commentary, memory and moral aspiration, but their use as a peacebuilding practice was new to me. He gave me a few examples. A child may be called Pohisohofa (meaning listen to the other party), or Hodu Haza Hora (let it not happen again) in…
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