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Dr Liz Carmichael discusses the ‘Progressive roles of business in the South African transition’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Dr Liz Carmichael is Emeritus Research Fellow in Theology at St John’s College, University of Oxford, and the convenor of the Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace), a multidisciplinary initiative to promote the study of peace, peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping in the University. Dr Carmichael became Chaplain, Fellow and Tutor in Theology at St John's in 1996, and in 2004 published Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love, a history of the interpretation of 'agape' as friendship-love in the western Christian tradition. She is currently researching on the origins and operation of the South African National Peace Accord and the work of its structures in the transition period 1991-94.

A plenary session from the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Professor Johan Galtung - Norwegian sociologist and 'father' of academic peace studies - offers a contextual example of applied peace studies. Professor Galtung is the Co-Director of the Transcent Research Institute, which he co-founded in 1993 after founding of the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in 1959 and serving as a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Oslo University from 1969-1978.

A plenary session from the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Professor Johan Galtung - Norwegian sociologist and 'father' of academic peace studies - offers a contextual example of applied peace studies. Professor Galtung is the Co-Director of the Transcent Research Institute, which he co-founded in 1993 after founding of the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in 1959 and serving as a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Oslo University from 1969-1978.

A plenary session from the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Barney Afako - a scholar-practitioner of peace building, leading Ugandan human rights lawyer, and transitional justice expert - draws on his experience as an advisor to the peace process in northern Uganda and elsewhere to reflect on addressing the threat of violent conflict in Africa and beyond.

A plenary session from the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Barney Afako - a scholar-practitioner of peace building, leading Ugandan human rights lawyer, and transitional justice expert - draws on his experience as an advisor to the peace process in northern Uganda and elsewhere to reflect on addressing the threat of violent conflict in Africa and beyond.

A keynote address from the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Dr Scilla Elworthy - Founder of the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct, Nobel Prize Nominee, and Niwano Peace Prize winner - reflects on her decades-long peace efforts in and explores the possibility of a worldwide strategy for peacebuilding.

A keynote address from the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Dr Scilla Elworthy - Founder of the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct, Nobel Prize Nominee, and Niwano Peace Prize winner - reflects on her decades-long peace efforts in and explores the possibility of a worldwide strategy for peacebuilding.

A breakout session of the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010.

A breakout session of the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010.

A breakout session of the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010.

A breakout session of the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. Chaired by Dr Phil Clark (Brasenose College, Oxford University) this session - 'Justice and Transitional Justice in Building Peace' - features Donald Ferencz (The Planethood Foundation), Dr Wendy Lambourne (University of Sydney), and Dr Phyllis Ferguson (Gender Studies and Transitional Justice/CSLS, Oxford).