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The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
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The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

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July 2025 | 552 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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 Studies

Section 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict Studies

Section 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies

Section 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies

Section 5: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies


 
Section 1: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
Timothy Seidel and Maia Carter Hallward
1. Introduction: History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies
John S. Moolakkattu
2. A History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Developments and Dispersions of the Field
Óscar Mateos Martín and Ana Isabel Rodríguez Iglesias
3. Epistemology: Power and Knowledge in Peace and Conflict Studies
Kelli Te Maiharoa and Heather Devere
4. Kia Puawai, Future Flowering: Indigenous Methodologies within Peace and Conflict Studies
Atalia Omer
5. Faith and Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Reina C. Neufeldt
6. Contending Histories of Ethics in Peace and Conflict Studies
Liu Cheng and Lester R. Kurtz
7. Global Peace and Conflict Studies
Emily E. Welty
8. On Violence…Here and Now
Juan Daniel Cruz
9. Decolonial Peace and Critical Approaches to Rewriting the Official History of Peace
 
Section 2: Theory and Analysis in Peace and Conflict Studies
Zubairu Wai and Cécile Mouly
10. Introduction: Peace and Conflict Studies in Theory
Benjamin Maiangwa and Sean Byrne
11. Mainstream vs Critical Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
Elias O. Opongo
12. Debating Structure and Agency in Peace and Conflict Studies
Tariq Dana and Matteo Capasso
13. Critical Political Economy Approach to Peace and Conflict Studies
Marianna Espinós Blasco and Punam Yadav
14. Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
Michael Wilson-Becerril
15. Discursive Turn: Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics, and Discourse Analysis
Aidan Gnoth
16. Liberal Peace and its Critics
Peter Genger
17. Hybrid Peace
David Golding and Victoria C. Fontan
18. Decolonizing Peace: Possibilities for Pluriversality
 
Section 3: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies
Cécile Mouly and Ji Eun Kim
19. Introduction: Practices and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies from a Critical Perspective
Kalika Kastein
20. Evolution of Peace Education
María Belén Garrido and Silvio Álvarez
21. Deconstructing the Narrative: A Critique of Civil Resistance Studies in Indigenous Struggles
Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij and Ayesah Uy Abubakar
22. Women’s Inclusion in Peace Processes: A Feminist Reflection
Ismael Muvingi and Tyrone Savage
23. Victims and the Reproduction of Power Relations in Transitional Justice
Juan Tauri
24. Indigenous Resistance to the ‘Violence’ of Restorative Justice
Camila de Macedo Braga
25. DDR on the Peace Road: From Stabilization to Conflict Transformation
Ahmet Barbak
26. Confronting Security Sector Reform (SSR): A Critical Inquiry into its Reasoning and Praxis
Landon Hancock
27. Community-Led Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Projects
Maxwell Adjei and Frank Okyere Osei
28. Infrastructures for Peace (I4Ps): A Conceptual Review
Paula Ditzel Facci
29. Decolonial Possibilities in Arts and Peacebuilding
 
Section 4: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
Ji Eun Kim and Zubairu Wai
30. Introduction: Global Issues, Institutions, and Change in Peace and Conflict Studies
Mahdis Azarmandi
31. North South Dimension in Global Peace and Conflict Studies: Contesting assumptions of ‘geographies’ of peace and violence
Faye M. Fraser
32. International Institutions, Global Governance, and Peacebuilding
Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
33. International Peace Interventions and the Security-Development Nexus
Kozue Akibayashi
34. Indigeneity, Decolonization, and Global Security
Reed Byg and Leah Ramnath
35. Planetary Ecological Crisis, Climate Change, and Conflict: Unsettling Understandings and Geographies of Encounter
Jean-Pierre D. Murray and Jeffrey D. Pugh
36. Refugees, Forced Migration, Conflict, and Security
shine choi
37. Global Arms Control and Disarmament
Karie Cross Riddle
38. Gender, Global Security, and Peacebuilding: The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Minju Kwon and Chaeyoung Yong
39. Global Human Rights Institutions
 
Section 5: Case Studies
Maia Carter Hallward and Timothy Seidel
40. Introduction: Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies: Illustrating Alternative Perspectives
Kristina Hook
41. The Russia-Ukraine War
Michael Pugh
42. The Rise and Demise of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Protectorate
Faiz Zaland
43. Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding: Case Study of Afghanistan
Eleyan Sawafta and Hasan Ayoub
44. How Israel’s Settle-Colonialism Hinders Peace and Development
Alaa Tartir and Amal Bourhous
45. Libya
Patrick Litanga
46. Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Study
Gladston Xavier and Florina Xavier
47. Pre-School Intervention in Sri Lanka
Juan Esteban Ugarriza Uribe and Laly Catalina Peralta González
48. The 2016 Peace Accord and Transitional Justice in Colombia
Jangai Jap
49. How Ethnic Rebellions Began (and Did Not Begin) in Burma
Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastián Granda Henao
50. Navigating through Peripheries: Interrogating definitions of peace and conflict in the Marshall Islands

"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. It is a must read for students, scholars, and practitioners who wish to expand their critical analytical frameworks and skills."

Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Professor & Abdulaziz Said Chair for Peace and Conflict Resolution International School of International Service (SIS) American University

"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."

Gearoid Millar
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies University of Aberdeen

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. 

SungYong Lee
Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, Soka University, Japan

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