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"Peace and conflict studies is in desperate need for such a handbook that presents a wide and diverse collection of chapters tackling difficult current challenges facing our global and local communities. This handbook offers much needed approaches to deepen our analytical understanding of root causes of structural violence and nonviolent ways to confront them. It also introduces fresh and critical global south perspectives that often are not part of the academic peace and conflict studies.
"The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies is an incredibly novel new contribution to the field. It stands out from the various competing publications in its robust response to recent critiques of the epistemological biases in the field. It achieves this by including a much wider variety of voices than many similar volumes, thus providing for a more inclusive and diverse set of perspectives on the past, present, and future of peace and conflict studies."
The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies is a significant contribution to the field, offering a comprehensive effort to decolonize peace scholarship. Featuring renowned authors in decolonial approaches and leading voices from the Global South, this volume revisits core topics in Peace and Conflict Studies through fresh, critical lenses. Striking a thoughtful balance between theoretical exploration and practice-based insights, the handbook serves as both an introductory resource and a critical collection of decolonial perspectives.
This is an extremely comprehensive Handbook that fills a significant gap in Peace and Conflict Studies. By placing an emphasis on authors and perspectives from the Global South, the Handbook is able to connect more directly to how peace and conflict are made on the ground. Through a mix of theory and case studies, the book it able to critically examine how peace is made and remade. Books like this are much needed in a turbulent world.
