ABSTRACT
This Companion examines contemporary challenges in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and offers practical solutions to these problems.
Bringing together chapters from new and established global scholars, the volume explores and critiques the foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies in an effort to advance the discipline in light of contemporary local and global actors.
The book examines the following eight specific components of Peace and Conflict Studies:
- Peace and conflict studies praxis
- Structure–agency tension as it relates to social justice, nonviolence, and relationship building
- Gender, masculinity, and sexuality
- The role of partnerships and allies in racial, ethnic, and religious peacebuilding
- Culture and identity
- Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding
- International conflict transformation and peacebuilding
- Global responses to conflict.
It argues that new critical and emancipatory peacebuilding and conflict transformation strategies are needed to address the complex cultural, economic, political, and social conflicts of the 21st century.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, peace studies, conflict resolution, transitional justice, reconciliation studies, social justice studies, and international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
part I|56 pages
Peace and conflict studies praxis (theory and practice)
part II|63 pages
Structure-agency, social justice, nonviolence, and relationship building
chapter 7|17 pages
Peace education and youth
part III|57 pages
Gender, masculinity, and sexuality
chapter 11|11 pages
Sex trafficking and peace
chapter 13|11 pages
Peace and quiet or not-so-quiet
chapter 14|11 pages
Protesting vulnerability and vulnerability as protest
chapter 15|11 pages
Missing discourses
part IV|55 pages
Partnership and allies in racial, ethnic, and religious peacebuilding
chapter 17|12 pages
Engaging students in humanitarian action using enduring questions
chapter 18|9 pages
Post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive imperialism
part V|55 pages
Culture and identity
chapter 23|11 pages
Making peace profitable
chapter 24|10 pages
Peacebuilding in response to migration
chapter 25|11 pages
Commissioning educators
part VI|58 pages
Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding
chapter 29|10 pages
The paradox of complexity in peace and conflict studies
part VII|54 pages
International conflict transformation and peacebuilding
chapter 32|10 pages
Engaging the root causes of past violence in Ireland
chapter 33|10 pages
Buying time in a crisis
chapter 34|11 pages
Human security and peacebuilding
chapter 35|11 pages
Transforming ethnic conflict
part VIII|66 pages
Global responses to conflict
chapter 36|11 pages
And what about the African Americans?
chapter 38|10 pages
Global responses to armed conflict
chapter 40|11 pages
Robust peacekeeping
part |13 pages
Conclusions