Annika Björkdahl is Professor at Lund University and the Editor-in-Chief of Cooperation and Conflict. She researches peacebuilding, gender and transitional justice. Her publications include Rethinking Peacebuilding (2013) and articles in Security Dialogue, Millennium, Human Rights Review, and Journal of European Public Policy.Susanne Buckley-Zistel is Professor for Peace Conflict Studies and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Germany, and Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research focuses on issues pertaining to peace and conflict, violence, gender and transitional justice.

• PART I: TERRITORIALITIES AND SCALES1. Overcoming the Material/Social Divide: Conflict Studies from the Perspective of Spatial Theory; Sven Chojnacki and Bettina Engels2. Territoriality in Civil War: The Ignored Territorial Dimensions of Violent Conflict in North Kivu, DR Congo; Martin Doevenspeck3. Armed Conflict and Space: Exploring Urban-Rural Patterns of Violence; Kristine Höglund, Erik Melander, Margareta Sollenberg and Ralph SundbergPART II: GLOBAL AND LOCAL4. Reading Urban Landscapes of War and Peace: The Case of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Karen Büscher5. The Camp, the Street, the Hotel, and the Brothel — the Gendered, Racialised Spaces of a City in Crisis: Dili, 2006-2008; Henri Myrttinen6. Local Agency in 'Global' Spaces? The engagement of Iraqi women's NGOs with CEDAW; Annika HenriziPART III: BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS7. Space, Class and Peace: Spatial Governmentality in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina; Elena B. Stavrevska8. Bluffing the State: Spatialities of Contested Statehood in the Abkhazian-Georgian Conflict; Jolle Demmers and Mikel Venhovens9. Urban Space as an Agent of Conflict and 'Peace': Marginalised Im/mobilities and the Predicament of Exclusive-Inclusion among Palestinians in Tel Aviv; Andreas Hackl10. Reframing the Olympic Games as a Space of Contestation Rather than a Fixed Place: Uncovering New Spatial Stories of (De)Securitisation; Faye DonnellyPART IV: PLACES AND SITES 11. Where Conflict and Peace Take Place: Memorialisation, Sacralisation and Post-Conflict Space; Laura Michael, Brendan Murtagh and Linda Price12. Seeing and Unseeing the Dome of Rocks: Conflict, Memory, and Belonging in Jerusalem; Nina Fischer13. Belfast, 'The Shared City'? Spatial Narratives of Conflict Transformation; Milena Komarova and Liam O'Dowd14. Geographies of Crime and Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zala Vol?i? and Olivera Simi?