Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace e-bog

In this handbook, a diverse range of leadingscholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmentalunderpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failuresof contemporary peacebuilding missions and narrow disciplinary debates, both ofwhich have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in International Relationsand Peace and Conflict studies. Scholars, students, and policymakers are oftendisillusioned with universalist and northern-dominated approaches, and a betterunderstanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, acrossdifferent regions, is required. Collectively, these chapters promote a moredifferentiated notion of peace, employing comparative analysis to explain howpeace is debated and contested.