Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies

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.

Introduction 1

Peace and conflict studies in the 21st century: Theory, substance, and practice

Sean Byrne, Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, and Jessica Senehi

PART I

Peace and conflict studies praxis (theory and practice)

1 Conflict transformation

Ho Won Jeong

2 Connecting theory and practice in the peace and conflict studies field

Louis Kriesberg

3 Theory-building in peace and conflict studies: The storytelling methodology

Jessica Senehi

4 The peacebuilding spaces of local actors

Wendy Kroeker

5 Peace studies and conflict resolution

Patrick G. Coy, Landon E. Hancock, and Anuj Gurung

PART II

Structure-agency, social justice, nonviolence, and relationship building

6 Assessing peace and conflict studies praxis in reconciling agency and structural sources of severe sociopolitical polarization

Frederic Pearson and Marie Olson Lounsbery

7 Peace education and youth: A scholarship of engagement study infusing mentorship and the arts

Alexia Georgakopoulos, Charles Goesel, and Kristie Jo Redfering

8 Unproductive challenges that impede international environmental conflict intervention efforts

Brian Polkinghorn and Brittany Foutz

9 Local peacebuilders’ ownership development in Southeast Asia

SungYong Lee

10 Foreign peacebuilding intervention and emancipatory local agency for social justice

Sean Byrne and Chuck Thiessen

PART III

Gender, masculinity, and sexuality

11 Sex trafficking and peace: How patriarchy normalizes direct and structural violence

Franke Wilmer

12 A holistic approach to addressing gender, violence, health, and peace

Izzeldin Abuelaish and Paula Godoy-Ruiz

13 Peace and quiet or not-so-quiet: Gender, rurality, and women’s grassroots peacebuilding

Robin Neustaeter

14 Protesting vulnerability and vulnerability as protest: Gender, migration, and strategies of resistance

Lisa McLean

15 Missing discourses: Recognizing disability and LGBTQ+ communities in conflict transformation

Rebecca Shea Irvine and Nancy Hansen

PART IV

Partnership and allies in racial, ethnic, and religious peacebuilding

16 Nonviolent social movements: Advancing justice on paths to peace

Jodi Dueck-Read

17 Engaging students in humanitarian action using enduring questions: A Jesuit approach

Janie Leatherman and Kathryn Nantz

18 Post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive imperialism: The lost roles of male Indigenous protectors and providers, and their effects on family

Brian Rice

19 Religion and peaceful relations: Negotiating the sacred

Nathan Funk and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan

20 Conflict intervention and reflexive evaluation

Jay Rothman

PART V

Culture and identity

21 Interactive conflict resolution, identity, and culture

Ronald J. Fisher

22 Identity matters: Social identity and social change

Celia Cook-Huffman

23 Making peace profitable: Introducing peaceology as the cultural and identity building blocks of a new peaceful world industry, beginning in Chicago

Peter K. B. St. Jean

24 Peacebuilding in response to migration: From securitization to peace in the context of the crisis for migrants in Europe

Gillian Wylie

25 Commissioning educators: The United Nations’ call to advance global peace through teaching intercultural communication

Imani Michelle Scott

PART VI

Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding

26 Rethinking international peacebuilding

Necla Tschirgi

27 Youth, peace, and security: Global trends and a Colombian case study

Lesley J. Pruitt

28 Joint civil–military interaction: A unity-of-aim method for peacebuilding

Thomas Matyók and Sven Stauder

29 The paradox of complexity in peace and conflict studies: Indigenous culture, identity, and peacebuilding

Paul Nicolas Cormier

30 Innovations: Critical peace education and yogic peace education

Katerina Standish

PART VII

International conflict transformation and peacebuilding

31 Conflict metanarratives and peacebuilding

Stephen Ryan

32 Engaging the root causes of past violence in Ireland: Ethical education for liberation

Johnston McMaster and Cathy Higgins

33 Buying time in a crisis: The UN Secretary-General and multiplex mediation in a multipolar nuclear world

Thomas E. Boudreau and Anthony Yost

34 Human security and peacebuilding: Critical tools for operationalizing human rights in the post-Cold War world

Kenneth Christie and Robert J. Hanlon

35 Transforming ethnic conflict: Building peace and diversity management in divided societies

Mitja Žagar

PART VIII

Global responses to conflict

36 And what about the African Americans? Peace and conflict studies neglect of the intractable conflict related to systemic racism in the United States

Imani Michelle Scott

37 Peacebuilding techniques or praxis

Stephanie P. Stobbe

38 Global responses to armed conflict: The menacing multi-dimensionality of peacebuilding under conditions of state fragility

Fletcher D. Cox

39 Major processes and structures of conflict management and global governance

Paul F. Diehl, J. Michael Greig, and Andrew P. Owsiak

40 Robust peacekeeping: The most appropriate operational paradigm to address contemporary UN peacekeeping and civilian protection challenges

Kofi Nsia-Pepra

41 New era in global security: When peace means global complex operations

Yvan Yenda Ilunga

Conclusions

Critical peace and conflict studies emancipated?

Sean Byrne, Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, and Jessica Senehi

Index

Sean Byrne is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Thomas Matyók is Director of the Air Force Negotiation Center and Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Air War College, USA.

Imani Michelle Scott is Professor of Communication at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.

Jessica Senehi is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict at the University of Manitoba, Canada.