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 praxisStructure–agency tension as it relates to social justice, nonviolence, and relationship buildingGender, masculinity, and sexualityThe role of partnerships and allies in racial, ethnic, and religious peacebuildingCulture and identityCritical and emancipatory peacebuildingInternational conflict transformation and peacebuildingGlobal 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.
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This Companion examines contemporary challenges in Peace and Conflict Studies and offers practical solutions to these problems.
Introduction, Peace and conflict studies in the 21st century: Theory, substance, and practiceSean Byrne, Thomas Matyók, Imani Michelle Scott, and Jessica SenehiPART I Peace and conflict studies praxis (theory and practice)1 Conflict transformationHo Won Jeong 2 Connecting theory and practice in the peace and conflict studies fieldLouis Kriesberg 3 Theory-building in peace and conflict studies: The storytelling methodologyJessica Senehi 4 The peacebuilding spaces of local actorsWendy Kroeker 5 Peace studies and conflict resolutionPatrick G. Coy, Landon E. Hancock, and Anuj GurungPART 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 polarizationFrederic Pearson and Marie Olson Lounsbery 7 Peace education and youth: A scholarship of engagement study infusing mentorship and the artsAlexia Georgakopoulos, Charles Goesel, and Kristie Jo Redfering 8 Unproductive challenges that impede international environmental conflict intervention effortsBrian Polkinghorn and Brittany Foutz 9 Local peacebuilders’ ownership development in Southeast AsiaSungYong Lee10 Foreign peacebuilding intervention and emancipatory local agency for social justiceSean Byrne and Chuck ThiessenPART III Gender, masculinity, and sexuality11 Sex trafficking and peace: How patriarchy normalizes direct and structural violenceFranke Wilmer12 A holistic approach to addressing gender, violence, health, and peaceIzzeldin Abuelaish and Paula Godoy-Ruiz
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032177632
Publisert
2021-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
875 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
536
Biographical note
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.