This book is the first critical reflection on peace and conflict studies. Bringing in innovative thinking to understand the trajectories of conflict and violence, justice and peace, both in the Global South and the Global North, it combines conceptual thinking with empirical illustrations for an inclusive discussion on a truly global field.
Peace and Conflict Studies were broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, which strongly influenced how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia. This has proven to provide practitioners not only with false promises about external intervention, but even strengthened asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge was and is produced. There is a need to make the discipline more plural by initiating and shaping a new research agenda that is more strongly rooted in the ground realities, contexts, imaginations – political, economic, and social – of the Global South(s).
This handbook is the first of its kind with a comprehensive and inclusive agenda for the field of peace and conflict studies: It engages in a thorough academic discussion not only about the Global South(s) but includes perspectives from the Global South(s). It reflects productive discussions with scholars from the Global South(s) that constitute the majority of authors in this handbook. In addition, while the handbook is a scholarly knowledge product, it is also an ongoing process for scholars, students and practitioners from both South(s) and North(s) with diverse backgrounds and positionalities.
This handbook is essential reference for students and researchers working on global peace and conflict studies, postcolonial studies, and international relations.
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This handbook enriches a growing body of literature on global South experiences and conceptualizations of the world. It is impressive in both its geographic, thematic, theoretical, and epistemological scope, and its transformational approach to knowledge creation. By asking what an inclusive, participatory, and pluriversal peace and conflict studies looks like, the editors and contributors offer critical cues for imagining the field otherwise. * Arlene B. Tickner, Independent Scholar and Colombian Ambassador At-Large for Gender Issues and Feminist Global Policy * In this process-book, Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter gift us with timely bridges for epistemic coalition across divides that not only help us to reimagine pluriversal Peace and Conflict studies, a field loaded with colonial logics of exclusion, but also practice disobedience and solidarity. In so doing, they foreground the Global South(s) connected experiences, epistemic locations and emancipatory/resistant agencies with whom the Global North(s) are invited to (un)learn, to be otherwise, to think and practice the unthought/the undone: a world where many worlds can fit. * Rosalba Icaza, Erasmus University Rotterdam *
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This book is the first critical reflection on peace and conflict studies. Bringing in innovative thinking to understand the trajectories of conflict and violence, justice and peace, both in the Global South and the Global North, it combines conceptual thinking with empirical illustrations for an inclusive discussion on a truly global field.
Introduction: Advancing Peace and Conflict Studies with the Global
South: Building Bridges and Creating Solidarities (Solveig Richter and
Siddharth Tripathi)
Part I: The Global South(s) in Peace and Conflict Studies: Tracing the Field
Chapter 1: The Global South(s) and Peace and Conflict Studies: Asymmetries of
Power, Definitions, and Dilemmas (Siddharth Tripathi and Edward Silvestre
Kaweesi)
Chapter 2: Looking beyond Peace and Conflict Studies: The Global South(s) in
other Disciplines (Thorsten Bonacker and Tareq Sydiq)
Chapter 3: The Local Turn and the Global South in Critical Peacebuilding
Studies (Jonas Wolff)
Chapter 4: Taking Global South Seriously: Rebuilding the Metatheory of Peace
and Conflict Studies (Navnita Chadha Behera)
Part II: Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Methodologies from the Global
South(s)
Chapter 5: Alternativity and Pluriversality in Onto-Epistemological
Conceptions of Peace and Conflict: Between Ideas and Realities (Michelle
Small and Jacqueline De-Matos Ala)
Chapter 6: Transformative Research Methodologies from the Global South:
Participatory Action Research in Colombia (Blanca Azucena Galeano Cardona,
Beatriz E. Arias López, and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara)
Chapter 7: Positionality and Ethical Dilemmas as Seen from the South:
Fieldwork in a Kenyan Securitized Milieu (Hawa Noor)
Chapter 8: Interrogating the Global North and its Racialized Domestic: A
North-South Solidarity Agenda (Bretton J. McEvoy and Myrna E. Morales)
Part III: Reflections on Conflict
Chapter 9: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Conflict and Forced
Migration in Africa (Rose Jaji and Ulrike Krause)
Chapter 10: The Fault-Lines of Conflict in the Study of Migration (Luicy
Pedroza)
Chapter 11: Global Resource Boom and Conflicts: Actors, Strategies, and
Potentials for Transformation (Bettina Engels and Kristina Dietz)
Chapter 12: Invisibilized and Hypervisibilized: LGBTIQ+, Conflict, and
Peacebuilding (Henri Myrttinen)
Chapter 13: The Mediatization of Conflict: Critical Reflections on
CenterPeriphery Constructions in the Media (Richard Stupart and Husseina
Ahmed)
Part IV: Reflections on Violence
Chapter 14: The Politics of Naming. Epistemology and the Study of Armed
Non-state Actors in the Middle East (Hanna Pfeifer)
Chapter 15: Mobilizing Grievances: Post-Colonial Legacies of Terrorism in
Africa (Hawa Noor and Steve Wakhu Khaemba)
Chapter 16: War Economies: Common Traits and Implications for Lasting Peace
(Sabine Kurtenbach and Angelika Rettberg)
Chapter 17: CivilMilitary Relations and Urban Violence in Megacities: The
Case of Brazil (Lucas P. Rezende and Rafael A. Duarte Villa)
Part V: Reflections on Peace
Chapter 18: Liberal Peacebuilding in the Global South: Crisis, Continuity,
and Non-Western (African) Agency (Babatunde F. Obamamoye and Nicolas
Lemay-Hébert)
Chapter 19: Challenging Peacebuilding from a Postcolonial Perspective
(Kristine Andra Avram, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, and Alexandra Engelsdorfer)
Chapter 20: Everyday Peace: Local Peace Beyond the State (Birte Vogel and
Dylan ODriscoll)
Chapter 21: Traditional Peacebuilding: A Closer Look at Shared
Characteristics (Jalale Getachew Birru)
Chapter 22: Guiding Environmental Peace Building from the Peace Ecology
Perspective: Insights from Colombian Post-accord Context (Pablo Andrés Ramos
and Isabella Romero Ángel)
Part VI: Reflections on Justice
Chapter 23: From Human Rights to Human Security (Steve Wakhu Khaemba)
Chapter 24: Postcolonial States, Nation-building, and Indigenous Rights
(Farooq Yousaf and Japhace Poncian)
Chapter 25: Everyday Justice: Local Peace Beyond the State and Transitional
Justice (Ruth Murambadoro and Clever Chikwanda)
Chapter 26: Conflict and Social Justice: Perspectives from the Global South
(Achim Kemmerling and Sushobhan Parida)
Part VII: Reimagining Peace and Conflict Studies: Possibilities and Pathways
Chapter 27: Past the Epistemic Tensions to Imagine Global Peace and Conflict:
The Fourth Way of Multiple Modernities (Edward Silvestre Kaweesi)
Chapter 28: From Decentering to (Re)centering in Peace and Conflict Studies:
Contestations, Resignification, and Collaborations (Viviana Garcia Pinzón,
Fabricio Rodríguez, and Siddharth Tripathi)
Index
About the Authors
About the Editors Siddharth Tripathi is senior research fellow at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt, Germany, where he leads the BMBF funded project on postcolonial hierarchies in peace and conflict. Prior to that he was as a senior research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. He has held various teaching and research positions at Willy Brandt School of Public Policy Erfurt, German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Berlin and Brussels, Institute of Diplomacy Kabul and Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR), University of Delhi. In his current research he focuses on the politics of knowledge production in IR and peace and conflict studies as well as decolonial and postcolonial praxis. Solveig Richter is Heisenberg Professor for International Relations and Transnational Politics at the Institute of Political Science, Leipzig University, and implementing a Heisenberg research project on the legitimacy of non-state actors in post-conflict settings, funded by the German research foundation. Before that, she held positions as a junior professor for International Conflict Management at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt and senior researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin (SWP), Germany. In her research she focuses on post-conflict peace-processes, on local non-state actors in conflict-areas as well as on external democracy promotion and conflict management. She conducted research mostly in the Western Balkans and in Colombia. She has a deep interest in fostering participatory and decolonial approaches as well as strengthening global and inclusive peace and conflict studies. Richter has published widely in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) and World Development Perspectives. During her professional career, she also worked as lecturer, journalist, and political consultant. From 2020-2023, she served as editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift fu¨r Friedens- und Konfliktforschung ZeFKo Studies in Peace and Conflict, the most important journal in the field of peace and conflict studies in the German-speaking area. Contributors Husseina Ahmed, Beatriz E. Arias López, Kristine Andra Avram, Navnita Chadha Behera, Jalale Getachew Birru, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Thorsten Bonacker, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Clever Chikwanda, Kristina Dietz, Rafael Duarte Villa, Bettina Engels, Alexandra Engelsdorfer, Blanca Azucena Galeano Cardona, Viviana García Pinzón, Rose Jaji, Edward Silvestre Kaweesi, Achim Kemmerling, Steve Wakhu Khaemba, Ulrike Krause, Sabine Kurtenbach, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Jacqueline de Matos Ala, Bretton J. McEvoy, Myrna E. Morales, Ruth Murambadoro, Henri Myrttinen, Hawa Noor, Babatunde Obamamoye, Dylan ODriscoll, Sushobhan Parida, Luicy Pedroza, Hanna Pfeifer, Japhace Poncian, Pablo Andres Ramos Baron, Angelika Rettberg, Lucas P. Rezende, Fabricio Rodriguez, Isabella Romero Ángel, Michelle Small, Richard Stupart, Tareq Sydiq, Birte Vogel, Jonas Wolff, Farooq Yousaf
