
The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
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The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
About this book
The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities of violence, conflict, and peace from a global, interdisciplinary perspective. The handbook addresses the traditional Western-centric approach while emphasizing the need to integrate Global South perspectives to create a more inclusive and transformative understanding of peace and conflict.
While important voices in peace and conflict studies have long stressed the need to not only address direct violence but also structural and cultural one, certain strands of the field have upheld conservative knowledge production and reinforced unequal power structures. This volume seeks to challenge these biasesby foregrounding critical and decolonial approaches that emphasize gender, race, culture, global history, and political economy. Its diverse chapters invite us to question mainstream assumptions and promote a broader, more inclusive analysis of peace and conflict.
The handbook explores the evolution of the field, highlighting the impact of historical events and the role of oppositional knowledge in political change. It offers a critical overview of theoretical approaches, emphasizing reflexivity, inclusivity, and the importance of local actors in peace and conflict dynamics. Additionally, it examines how cultural and disciplinary assumptions shape peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and it critiques traditional global narratives on issues like governance, climate change, and human rights. Finally, the handbook presents real-world case studies that integrate themes of decoloniality, race, gender, and power inequalities across diverse global contexts.
By centering the Global South and integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, this handbook provides valuable insights for scholars and practitioners committed to fostering a more equitable and just world.
Section 1: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
Section 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict Studies
Section 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
Section 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
Section 5: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Preface
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Section One History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 1 Introduction: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 2 A History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Developments and Dispersions of the Field
- 3 Epistemology: Power and Knowledge in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 4 Kia Puāwai, Future Flowering: Indigenous Methodologies Within Peace and Conflict Studies
- 5 Faith and Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 6 Contending Histories of Ethics in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 7 Global Peace and Conflict Studies
- 8 On Violence…Here and Now
- 9 Decolonial Peace and Critical Approaches to Rewriting the Official History of Peace
- Section Two Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 10 Introduction: Peace and Conflict Studies in Theory
- 11 Mainstream vs Critical Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 12 Debating Structure and Agency in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 13 Critical Political Economy Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
- 14 Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
- 15 Discursive Turn: Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics and Discourse Analysis
- 16 Liberal Peace and Its Critics
- 17 Hybrid Peace
- 18 Decolonizing Peace: Possibilities for Pluriversality
- Section Three Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 19 Introduction: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies From a Critical Perspective
- 20 Evolution of Peace Education
- 21 Deconstructing the Narrative: A Critique of Civil Resistance Studies on Indigenous Struggles
- 22 Women’s Inclusion in Peace Processes: A Feminist Reflection
- 23 Victims and the Reproduction of Power Relations in Transitional Justice
- 24 Indigenous Resistance to the ‘Violence’ of Restorative Justice
- 25 DDR on the Peace Road: From Stabilization to Conflict Transformation
- 26 Confronting Security Sector Reform: A Critical Inquiry Into Its Reasoning and Praxis
- 27 Community-Led Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Projects
- 28 Infrastructures for Peace: A Conceptual Review
- 29 Decolonial Possibilities in Arts and Peacebuilding
- Section Four Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 30 Introduction: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
- 31 North-South Dimensions of Global Peace Studies: Contesting Assumptions of ‘Geographies’ of Peace and Violence
- 32 International Institutions, Global Governance, and Peacebuilding
- 33 International Peace Interventions and the Security-Development Nexus
- 34 Decolonization, Indigeneity and Global Security
- 35 Planetary Ecological Crisis, Climate Change, and Conflict: Unsettling Understandings and Geographies of Encounter
- 36 Refugees, Forced Migration, Conflict, and Security
- 37 Global Arms Control and Disarmament
- 38 Gender, Global Security, and Peacebuilding: The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
- 39 Global Human Rights Institutions
- Section Five Case Studies
- 40 Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies: Illustrating Alternative Perspectives
- 41 The Russia-Ukraine War
- 42 The Rise and Demise of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Protectorate
- 43 Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding: Case Study of Afghanistan
- 44 How Israel’s Settler-Colonialism Hinders Peace and Development
- 45 Libya
- 46 Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study
- 47 Preschool Intervention in Sri Lanka
- 48 The 2016 Peace Accord and Transitional Justice in Colombia
- 49 How Ethnic Rebellions Began (and Did Not Begin) in Burma
- 50 Navigating Through Peripheries: Interrogating Definitions of Peace and Conflict in the Marshall Islands
- Index