This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.

Introduction Introduction: Peacebuilding and ethnic conflict Part 1: Key Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts 1. The roots of ethnopolitical conflict 2. How gender is implicated in ethnopolitical conflict 3. Complex effects of external involvements in ethnopolitical violence 4. Re-examining peacebuilding priorities: Liberal peace and the emancipatory critique 5. Hatred is a contagious disease and public health issue in ethnopolitical conflicts 6. The environment and peacebuilding in ethnic conflict 7. Deconstructing the relapse of American nationalism 8. How does the COVID-19 pandemic influence peacebuilding, diversity management, the handling of ethnic conflict, and ethnic minorities? Part 2: Peacebuilders in Ethnic Conflicts 9. Indigenous peacemaking and restorative justice 10. Interactive conflict resolution: Addressing the essence of ethnopolitical conflict and peacebuilding 11. Core dynamics of nonviolent accompaniment and unarmed civilian protection 12. Peace leadership, security, and the role of the military in ethnopolitical conflict 13. Interreligious peacebuilding: An emerging pathway for sustainable peace 14. The laughter that knows the darkness: The Mamas’ resistance to annihilative violence in West Papua 15. The role of youth in ethnopolitical conflicts Part 3: Addressing the Past and Shaping the Future 16. On peacebuilding and public memory: Iconoclasm, dialogue, and race 17. When the past is always present: Heritage rights, monuments, and cultural divides 18. Voices of their own: Refugees missing home and building a future 19. Trauma, recovery, and memory 20. A season of reckoning for the children: Exploring the realities of aggregated trauma in the African American community 21. Peace after genocide: Exhumations, expectataions, and peacebuilding efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina 22. A healing-centered peacebuilding approach Part 4: Approaches and Cases 23. Sri Lanka’s post-war reconciliation: Reconciling the local and international 24. Emancipatory peacebuilding and conflict transformation: Mindanao as a case study 25. Transformative peace negotiation 26. External aid and peacebuilding 27. Bringing the Indigenous into mainstream peacemaking and peacebuilding in farmer-herder conflicts: Some critical reflections 28. Focal points in ethnic conflict: A peacebuilding continuum. Conclusions Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approaches to analyze and transform ethnic conflict: Lessons learned (in addressing the legacy of the past in order to shape the future)