The Role of Urban Planning and Architecture in Sustainable Peacebuilding: Lessons from Belfast to Syria

Ghada Rifai () and Seyda Emekci
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Ghada Rifai: Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Post-Disaster and Post-War Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara 06010, Turkey
Seyda Emekci: Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara 06010, Turkey

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-17

Abstract: The peacebuilding process plays a critical role for urban planning in paving the way for sustainable peace or upcoming conflicts, where it is not innocent and not impartial. The paper aims to draw out lessons learned from Belfast to Syria, focusing on the urban intervention role in sustaining the peace process. The article reviews Belfast’s literature review, using the timeline to scan the recovery process and extract a few lessons learnt. This is followed by reviewing the current interventions for the recovery of Syria based on chosen articles in the Venice charter on reconstruction that define specific indicators of the role of architects and urban planners. Authors debate the way and the aspects of urban intervention in dealing with conflicts. The paper shows the critical role of urban interventions in sustaining peace process implementation and concludes with essential areas to ensure the integration of the urban intervention part of the peace process.

Keywords: post-war; reconstruction; peacebuilding; recovery plan; urban planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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