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This book the second edition of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace brings together thirty-nine chapters by leading and emerging scholars to explore peace as a concept, policy, and practice. The handbook examines theoretical frameworks, including cosmopolitanism, feminist perspectives, human security, Gandhian philosophy, and liberal peace, alongside domestic practices in Rwanda, Singapore, Canada, Russia, and China. New chapters address contemporary developments in peace studies, peace education, artificial intelligence, and peace-related challenges in East Asia (Japan), the Middle East, and South America. The handbook also analyzes how regional and global institutions the Arab League, ASEAN, the African Union, the EU, the ICC, the OECD, and the United Nations influence and foster peace worldwide. Covering theoretical, disciplinary, domestic, regional, institutional, alternative, and transitional approaches, this comprehensive handbook serves as a critical resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, and students committed to understanding and advancing peace in the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1:World peace. Trapped again.- Part II: Theoretical And Disciplinary Approaches To Peace.- chapter 2: Understanding peace studies: A discipline in development.- Chapter 3: Cosmopolitan paths to peace.- Chapter 4: Gandhism and peace.- Chapter 5: The liberal peace: Challenges to development, democracy and soft power.- Chapter 6: Feminist continua in peace and conflict studies.- Chapter 7: Human security and the socialization of peace.- Chapter 8: Peace, R2P and public goods theory.- Part III: Domestic Approaches To Peace.- Chapter 9:Peace in Rwanda: Balancing the ICTR and Gacaca in postgenocide peacebuilding.- Chapter 10: Singapore s small state domestic peacemaking: Quiet Under the Banyan Tree .- Chapter 11: Russian approaches to international peace, security and institutions: Debating within IR schools.- Chapter 12: Reframing the principle of noninterference: Reflections of Chinese school debates and Beijing s approach to peace.- Chapter 13: Operationalizing positive peace: Canadian approaches to international security policy and practice.- Chapter 14: Global peacekeeping: Japan s contributions and constraints in developing regions.- Part IV: Regional Approaches To Peace.- Chapter 15: Peace in Europe: The role of the European Union in peacebuilding and security.- Chapter 16: Which ASEAN Way forward? Southeast Asian perspectives on peace and institutions.- Chapter 17: Between war and peace: The League of Arab States in the Middle East.- Chapter 18: Barrack dialogues as instruments of peace: Defense diplomacy in the Southern Cone.- Chapter 19: African peace and security architecture: A response to regional challenges.- Chapter 20: Official discourses on peace and security in post-Soviet Central Asia.- Part V: Institutional Approaches To Peace. Chapter 21: The OECD Development Assistance Committee: Instituting peace by economic means.- Chapter 22: Peace process, international organizations and the Kurdish Question .- Chapter 23: The UN security council and responsibility to protect: A global approach to prevent mass atrocities.- Chapter 24: The role of international organizations in peace and reconciliation in Kenya.- Chapter 25: Transnational governance and peace processes: The case of the UN and ICC in Colombia.- Chapter 26: International norms and future peacebuilding.- Part V: Alternative Approaches To Peace.- Chapter 27: International women s organizations, peace, and peacebuilding.- Chapter 28: The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.- Chapter 29: Building peace through ubuntu in divided African societies.- Chapter 30: Did Colombians say NO to peace? A grassroots peace activism versus top-down approach.- Chapter 31: Educating for peace in Latin America: Historical and institutional approaches.- Chapter 32: Approaching peace visually: Global imaginaries and narratives of everyday peacebuilding.- Part IV: Peace In Transition.- Chapter 33: Peace institutions: Gandhism, conflict solution, lifting the bottom-up.- Chapter 34: Patriacene: An engendered-sustainable peace to end patriarchal violence.- Chapter 35: Peace, politics, and religion.- Chapter 36: Transitional justice: Between peacebuilding and reconciliation.- Chapter 37: In search of peace in the Arctic.- Chapter 38: AI weaponization: Threats to peace or paths to international cooperation?.- Chapter 39: Education for peace: Integrating ecocentric economic and social approaches.<
About the author
Aigul Kulnazarova
is Professor of International Relations and International Law at the School of Global Studies, Tama University, Japan. Previously, she was the Dean of the Law School at Kazakh-American University, and a visiting professor or fellow in Denmark, India, Japan, and Russia.
Summary
Introduces a truly global perspective on how different parts of the world think about peace through the voices of authors based in over 20 different countries
Provides an innovative way to organize scholarship on peace-thinking, peace-making, and peace-building at different levels of analysis
Zooms in on impact of local player/regional players in global peacebuilding through their participation in international institutions
