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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

Perspectives from the Global South

Siddharth Tripathi Solveig Richter

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English
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
13 November 2025
This new open access handbook combines conceptual thinking with empirical

illustrations to understand the trajectories of conflict and violence

in our world.

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.

The ebook editions of this book are

available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on

bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Leipzig University.
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781538147344
ISBN 10:   1538147343
Series:   Bloomsbury Handbooks
Pages:   632
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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 Center–Periphery 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: Civil–Military 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 O’Driscoll) 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 O’Driscoll, 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

Reviews for The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South

""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 exlusion, 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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