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In this handbook, a diverse range of leading
scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental
underpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failures
of contemporary peacebuilding missions and narrow disciplinary debates, both of
which have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in International Relations
and Peace and Conflict studies. Scholars, students, and policymakers are often
disillusioned with universalist and northern-dominated approaches, and a better
understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, across
different regions, is required. Collectively, these chapters promote a more
differentiated notion of peace, employing comparative analysis to explain how
peace is debated and contested.

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PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
1. History Peace in History; John Gittings 2. Politics and Governance: From Emergency to Emergence ; David Chandler 3. Philosophy: The Philosophy of Peace; Nick Rengger 4. International Relations: Peace in International Relations Theory; Oliver P. Richmond 5. Anthropology: Implications for Peace; Geneviève Souillac and Douglas P. Fry 6. Arts and Theatre for Peacebuilding; Nilanjana Premaratna and Roland Bleiker 7. Sociology: A Sociological Critique of Liberal Peace; Nicos Trimikliniotis 8. Economics: Neoliberal Peace and the Politics of Social Economics; Brendan Murtagh 9. Geography: Geography and Peace; Nick Megoran, Fiona McConnell and Phillipa Williams 10. Development: Peace and Development Studies; Caroline Hughes 11. Postcolonialism: A Postcolonial Perspective on Peacebuilding; Vivienne Jabri 12. Religion: Peace through Non-Violence in Four Religious Traditions; Caron Gentry 13. Gender: The Missing Piece in the Peace Puzzle; Annika Bjorkdahl and Johanna M. Selimovic 14. Education: Cultural Reproduction, Revolution and Peacebuilding in Conflict-affected Societies; Tejendra Pherali 15. Children: Children and Peace; Ben Collins and Alison Watson 16. Social Psychology: Social Psychology and Peace; Shelley McKeown and Daniel Christie 17. Humanitarianism: Humanitarianism and Peace; Jenny H. Peterson 18. International Law: To End the Scourge of War and to Build a Just Peace?; Wendy Lambourne 19. Indigeneity and Peace; Morgan Brigg and Polly O. Walker 20. Critical Security Studies: Alternative Dialogues for Peace - Reconstructing ´Language Barriers´ and ´Talking Points´; Faye Donnelly PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
21. South Africa´s Incomplete Peace; Andries Odendaal 22. West Africa: Peace in West Africa; Patrick Tom 23. The Great Lakes Region of Africa; Local Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding from the Democratic Republic of Congo ; Josaphat M. Bussy and Carol Gallo 24. The Horn of Africa: Peace in the Horn of Africa; Christopher Clapham 25. Southeast Asia: Peace through Retribution or Reconciliation? Some Insights and Evidence from Southeast Asia; Sorpong Peou 26. East Asia: Understanding the Broken Harmony in Confucian Asia; Ching-Chang Chen 27. South Asia: Human Development and Minority Empowerment Exploring Regional Perspectives on Peace in South Asia; Florian Krampe and Ashok Swain 28. Emerging Countries: Peace and the Emerging Countries; Kai Michael Kenkel 29. Central Asia Central Asia: Contested Peace; David Lewis 30. Middle East and North Africa: Hegemonic Modes of Pacification in Crisis; Sandra Pogodda 31. Europe: Peace in Europe; Roberto Belloni 32. Balkans; Jasmin Ramovic 33. South America; Peacebuilding in South America: Roddy Brett and Diana Florez 34. Central America: From War to Violence; Jenny Pearce 35. North America: Peace Studies versus the Hegemony of Realist and Liberal Methods; Henry F. Carey 36. Pacific: Peace in the Pacific Grounded in Local Custom, Adapting to Change; Volker Boege

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