Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

A contemporary exploration of peace and conflict studies that is both broad and critical.

List of contents

Section 1: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
1. Introduction: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies - Timothy Seidel and Maia Carter Hallward
2. A History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Developments and Dispersions of the Field - John S. Moolakkattu
3. Epistemology: Power and Knowledge in Peace and Conflict Studies - Óscar Mateos Martín and Ana Isabel Rodríguez Iglesias
4. Kia Puawai, Future Flowering: Indigenous Methodologies within Peace and Conflict Studies - Kelli Te Maiharoa and Heather Devere
5. Faith and Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies - Atalia Omer
6. Contending Histories of Ethics in Peace and Conflict Studies - Reina C. Neufeldt
7. Global Peace and Conflict Studies - Liu Cheng and Lester R. Kurtz
8. On Violence...Here and Now - Emily E. Welty
9. Decolonial Peace and Critical Approaches to Rewriting the Official History of Peace - Juan Daniel Cruz
Section 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict Studies
10. Introduction: Peace and Conflict Studies in Theory - Zubairu Wai and Cécile Mouly
11. Mainstream vs Critical Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies - Benjamin Maiangwa and Sean Byrne
12. Debating Structure and Agency in Peace and Conflict Studies - Elias O. Opongo
13. Critical Political Economy Approach to Peace and Conflict Studies - Tariq Dana and Matteo Capasso
14. Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies - Marianna Espinós Blasco and Punam Yadav
15. Discursive Turn: Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics, and Discourse Analysis - Michael Wilson-Becerril
16. Liberal Peace and its Critics - Aidan Gnoth
17. Hybrid Peace - Peter Genger
18. Decolonizing Peace: Possibilities for Pluriversality - David Golding and Victoria C. Fontan
Section 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
19. Introduction: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies from a Critical Perspective - Cécile Mouly and Ji Eun Kim
20. Evolution of Peace Education - Kalika Kastein
21. Deconstructing the Narrative: A Critique of Civil Resistance Studies in Indigenous Struggles - María Belén Garrido and Silvio Álvarez
22. Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes: A Feminist Reflection - Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij and Ayesah Uy Abubakar
23. Victims and the Reproduction of Power Relations in Transitional Justice - Ismael Muvingi and Tyrone Savage
24. Indigenous Resistance to the 'Violence' of Restorative Justice - Juan Tauri
25. DDR on the Peace Road: From Stabilization to Conflict Transformation - Camila de Macedo Braga
26. Confronting Security Sector Reform (SSR): A Critical Inquiry into its Reasoning and Praxis - Ahmet Barbak
27. Community-Led Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Projects - Landon Hancock
28. Infrastructures for Peace (I4Ps): A Conceptual Review - Maxwell Adjei and Frank Okyere Osei
29. Decolonial Possibilities in Arts and Peacebuilding - Paula Ditzel Facci
Section 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
30. Introduction: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies - Ji Eun Kim and Zubairu Wai
31. North South Dimension in Global Peace and Conflict Studies: Contesting assumptions of 'geographies' of peace and violence - Mahdis Azarmandi
32. International Institutions, Global Governance, and Peacebuilding - Faye M. Fraser
33. International Peace Interventions and the Security-Development Nexus - Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
34. Indigeneity, Decolonization, and Global Security - Kozue Akibayashi
35. Planetary Ecological Crisis, Climate Change, and Conflict: Unsettling Understandings and Geographies of Encounter - Reed Byg and Leah Ramnath
36. Refugees, Forced Migration, Conflict, and Security - Jean-Pierre D. Murray and Jeffrey D. Pugh
37. Global Arms Control and Disarmament - shine choi
38. Gender, Global Security, and Peacebuilding: The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda - Karie Cross Riddle
39. Global Human Rights Institutions - Minju Kwon and Chaeyoung Yong
Section 5: Case Studies
40. Introduction: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies: Illustrating Alternative Perspectives - Maia Carter Hallward and Timothy Seidel
41. The Russia-Ukraine War - Kristina Hook
42. The Rise and Demise of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Protectorate - Michael Pugh
43. Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding: Case Study of Afghanistan - Faiz Zaland
44. How Israel's Settle-Colonialism Hinders Peace and Development - Eleyan Sawafta and Hasan Ayoub
45. Libya - Alaa Tartir and Amal Bourhous
46. Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study - Patrick Litanga
47. Pre-School Intervention in Sri Lanka - Gladston Xavier and Florina Xavier
48. The 2016 Peace Accord and Transitional Justice in Colombia - Juan Esteban Ugarriza Uribe and Laly Catalina Peralta González
49. How Ethnic Rebellions Began (and Did Not Begin) in Burma - Jangai Jap
50. Navigating through Peripheries: Interrogating definitions of peace and conflict in the Marshall Islands - Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastián Granda Henao

About the author

Maia Carter Hallward is Professor of Middle East Politics and Director of the PhD Program in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. She serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education and served for eight years as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. Hallward is the author or co-author of seven books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles in topics including civil resistance, women’s leadership, human rights, identity politics, and activism related to Israel/Palestine. Hallward has lived and worked in the Levant for over four years, including a term as a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan. She holds a PhD in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service.Ji Eun Kim is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Eastern Mennonite University, where she teaches courses on human rights, political reconciliation, genocide and mass atrocity prevention, and East Asian security. Her research lies at the intersection of International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Peace Studies, and her areas of specialization include transitional justice processes after large-scale political violence and international institutions and norms. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Cécile Mouly is a research professor and coordinator of the research group in peace and conflict at FLACSO Ecuador. She holds a Ph.D. in International Studies (University of Cambridge) and has published on peacebuilding, peace processes and civil resistance, including a 2022 handbook of peace and conflict studies in Spanish. She possesses practical experience in conflict transformation and peacebuilding in different countries with various organizations (UN, The Carter Center, OAS), and has facilitated trainings on conflict analysis, peacebuilding, nonviolent action and peace journalism. She is one of the resource persons in “Conflict Prevention: Analysis for Action” of the UN System Staff College, one of the coordinators of the summer program “Conflict Transformation Across Borders”, and a member of the executive committee of the regional institute on strategic nonviolent action in the Americas. She was part of the Ecuador team of the Colombian truth commission from 2019 to 2022.Timothy Seidel is Associate Professor of Peacebuilding, Development, and Global Studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, USA. His writing has appeared in various journals including Postcolonial Studies, International Politics, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and Third World Quarterly. He is co-editor of Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (2024) and Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (2021).Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (Palgrave, 2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (Palgrave, 2018). His research takes up epistemological questions regarding the nature, conditions, and limits of disciplinary knowledge and practices in international relations, development studies, conflict and security studies, and African studies. Specifically, he focuses on how the intersections of power and coloniality frame the discourses and political economy of knowledge, violence, conflict, development, and state formation in Africa, and the Global South more broadly. His most recent book, Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge, which interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, will be published by Routledge early 2023.

Product details

• Authors: Maia Kim Carter Hallward
• Assisted by: Maia Carter Hallward (Editor), Ji Eun Kim (Editor), Cécile Mouly (Editor), Timothy Seidel (Editor), Wai Zubairu (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529667752
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-6775-2
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, International Relations, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Political activism / Political engagement, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents