Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations

Rethinking Margins, Violence, and Power

Benjamin Maiangwa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9781040622254
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Diplomacy & Treaties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book offers a grounded framework for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) that not only analyses conflict but also actively contributes to the well-being of marginalized communities.

In response to rising authoritarianism and shrinking democratic spaces, the volume calls for inclusive peacebuilding processes that center the voices, experiences, and agency of those historically excluded, particularly those on the periphery of the global system. The book critically engages with the limitations of traditional, Western-centric PACS frameworks and proposes a decolonial restructuring of the field. It foregrounds the lived experiences, knowledge systems, and aspirations of marginalized communities such as artists, members of the diaspora, and LGBTQIA+, thereby challenging dominant paradigms and positioning the periphery as a vital site of transformative action and knowledge production. Through practical, context-sensitive solutions, the volume seeks to make PACS more responsive, equitable, and capable of fostering sustainable peace in an increasingly complex world.

This book will be of much interest to students and practitioners of peace and conflict studies, social justice, development studies, and international relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Marginalism, Violence, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding
• Section I Mapping Marginalism and Confronting Violence
• 2 Am I Complicit?: Seven Harms and Seven Remedies
• 3 “Ethnopatriarchy”: Muhajir Women, Intersectionality, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding
• 4 From the Margins: Informal Markets, Gender, and Everyday Peacebuilding
• 5 Reclaiming Peace from the Margins: Queer Necropolitics and Activism Resistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 6 Stepping Out Violence in the Venezuelan-Colombian Border: Academics and Local Communities Overcoming Marginalization
• 7 Trust and Sustainability in Return Migration: Insights from Conflict-Affected Communities and Implications for Peacebuilding
• Section II Creative Resistance and Emancipatory Peacebuilding
• 8 The Aesthetics of Peace
• 9 Meditations on Core-Periphery Relations, Marginal Spaces, and the Roaming Selves: A Postscript
• 10 The Migrant’s Impulse: Selfhood, Justice, and Peace
• 11 Not in My Back Yard, Not My Problem: The Effect of Social Justice Discourse in Calling to Action for Community Well-Being
• 12 Social Inclusion, Peacebuilding, and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Peace Programs
• 13 Protracted Absence, Disabled People, and Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS)
• 14 Conclusion: Weaving the Margins for Decolonial Peace
• Index