In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failures of contemporary peacebuilding missions and narrow disciplinary debates, both of which have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in International Relations and Peace and Conflict studies. Scholars, students, and policymakers are often disillusioned with universalist and northern-dominated approaches, and a better understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, across different regions, is required. Collectively, these chapters promote a more differentiated notion of peace, employing comparative analysis to explain how peace is debated and contested.
Roberto Belloni, University of Trento, Italy Annika Björkdahl, Lund University, Sweden Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia Volker Boege, University of Queensland, Australia Roddy Brett, University of St Andrews, UK Morgan Brigg, University of Queensland, Australia Josaphat Musamba Bussy, Free University of the Great Lakes, Democratic Republic of Congo Henry F. (Chip) Carey, Georgia State University, USA David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK Ching-Chang Chen Ryukoku University, Japan Daniel Christie, Ohio State University, USA Christopher Clapham, Cambridge University, UK Bennett Collins, University of St Andrews, UK Faye Donnelly, University of St Andrews, UK Diana Florez, United Nations Development Programme, Colombia Douglas P. Fry, University of Alabama,USA Carol Jean Gallo, Cambridge University, UK Caron E. Gentry, University of St Andrews, UK John Gittings, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Caroline HughesUniversity of Bradford, UK Vivienne Jabri, King's College London, UK Kai Michael Kenkel, Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil Florian Krampe, Uppsala University, Sweden Wendy Lambourne, University of Sydney, Australia David Lewis University of Exeter, UK Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden Fiona McConnell, University of Oxford, UK Shelley McKeown, University of Bristol, UK Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK Brendan Murtagh, Queens University Belfast, UK Andries Odendaal, University of Pretoria, South Africa Jenny Pearce, University of Bradford, UK Sorpong Peou, Ryerson University, Canada Jenny H. Peterson, University of British Columbia, Canada Tejendra Pherali, University College London, UK Nilanjana Premaratna, University of Queensland, Australia Nicholas Rengger, University of St Andrews, UK Geneviève Souillac, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ashok Swain, Uppsala University, Sweden Patrick Tom, Mindleag Limited, UK Nicos Trimikliniotis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Polly O. Walker, Juniata College, USA Alison Watson, University of St Andrews, UK Philippa Williams, Queen Mary University London, UK
