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The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities of violence, conflict, and peace from a global, interdisciplinary perspective. The handbook addresses the traditional Western-centric approach while emphasizing the need to integrate Global South perspectives to create a more inclusive and transformative understanding of peace and conflict.While important voices in peace and conflict studies have long stressed the need to not only address direct violence but also structural and cultural one, certain strands of the field have upheld conservative knowledge production and reinforced unequal power structures. This volume seeks to challenge these biasesby foregrounding critical and decolonial approaches that emphasize gender, race, culture, global history, and political economy. Its diverse chapters invite us to question mainstream assumptions and promote a broader, more inclusive analysis of peace and conflict.The handbook explores the evolution of the field, highlighting the impact of historical events and the role of oppositional knowledge in political change. It offers a critical overview of theoretical approaches, emphasizing reflexivity, inclusivity, and the importance of local actors in peace and conflict dynamics. Additionally, it examines how cultural and disciplinary assumptions shape peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and it critiques traditional global narratives on issues like governance, climate change, and human rights. Finally, the handbook presents real-world case studies that integrate themes of decoloniality, race, gender, and power inequalities across diverse global contexts.By centering the Global South and integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, this handbook provides valuable insights for scholars and practitioners committed to fostering a more equitable and just world.Section 1: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 5: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies

Esta obra provee un panorama amplio del campo de los estudios de paz y conflictos. Está dirigida a un público tanto académico como profesional. Abarca temas que van desde las teorías sobre el surgimiento y la evolución de los conflictos hasta el mantenimiento de la paz, la negociación y la mediación, la construcción de paz y la acción noviolenta. Aborda tanto el estudio de los conflictos armados o conflictos sociopolíticos que podrían tornarse violentos como las respuestas a estos conflictos, y los procesos de Resistencia noviolenta. Se basa en una profunda revisión de la literatura en el campo, así como en las reflexiones de la autora con base en su experiencia práctica en el campo. El libro intenta reflejar una variedad de perspectivas que dan cuenta de la naturaleza interdisciplinaria del campo y toma en consideración estudios con distintas metodologías. Además, busca vincular la teoría y los conceptos con ejemplos concretos e incorpora estudios de caso que permitan entender cómo las discusiones teóricas se relacionan con la práctica. A esto se agrega el uso de figuras y cuadros que permiten visualizar cómo se aplican las teorías y los conceptos, ilustrarlos con ejemplos y examinar tendencias. Así, se espera que esta obra sea un referente para los estudios de paz y conflictos a nivel teórico y práctico en el mundo hispanohablante.

The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities of violence, conflict, and peace from a global, interdisciplinary perspective. The handbook addresses the traditional Western-centric approach while emphasizing the need to integrate Global South perspectives to create a more inclusive and transformative understanding of peace and conflict.While important voices in peace and conflict studies have long stressed the need to not only address direct violence but also structural and cultural one, certain strands of the field have upheld conservative knowledge production and reinforced unequal power structures. This volume seeks to challenge these biasesby foregrounding critical and decolonial approaches that emphasize gender, race, culture, global history, and political economy. Its diverse chapters invite us to question mainstream assumptions and promote a broader, more inclusive analysis of peace and conflict.The handbook explores the evolution of the field, highlighting the impact of historical events and the role of oppositional knowledge in political change. It offers a critical overview of theoretical approaches, emphasizing reflexivity, inclusivity, and the importance of local actors in peace and conflict dynamics. Additionally, it examines how cultural and disciplinary assumptions shape peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and it critiques traditional global narratives on issues like governance, climate change, and human rights. Finally, the handbook presents real-world case studies that integrate themes of decoloniality, race, gender, and power inequalities across diverse global contexts.By centering the Global South and integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, this handbook provides valuable insights for scholars and practitioners committed to fostering a more equitable and just world.Section 1: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict StudiesSection 5: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies

Most recent works about the efforts of local communities caught up in a civil war have focused on their efforts to remain places of security and safety from the violence that surrounds them—neutral peace communities or zones. This book, in contrast, focuses on local peace communities facing new challenges and opportunities once a peace agreement has been signed at the national level, such as those in South Africa, the Philippines, Burundi, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the present peace process in Colombia between the FARC and the Colombian Government. The communities’ task is to make a stable and durable peace in the aftermath of a violent civil war and a deal on which local people have usually had little or no influence. Such agreements seek to involve them in both short and longer term peace-building, and expect local communities to cope with problems of armed ex-combatants, IDPs and refugees, law and order in the absence of much state presence, high unemployment and the need for widespread and massive reconstruction of physical infrastructure damaged or destroyed during the war. How local communities have coped with the demands of “peace” is thus the theme that runs through each of these individual chapters, written by authors with direct experience of grassroots communities struggling with such “problems of peace.”  

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