Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations

Rethinking Margins, Violence, and Power
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-06468-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

This book offers a grounded framework for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) that not only analyses conflict but actively contributes to the wellbeing of marginalized communities.

In response to rising authoritarianism and shrinking democratic spaces, the volume calls for inclusive peacebuilding processes that center the voices, experiences, and agency of those historically excluded—particularly those on the periphery of the global system. The book critically engages with the limitations of traditional, Western-centric PACS frameworks and proposes a decolonial restructuring of the field. It foregrounds the lived experiences, knowledge systems, and aspirations of marginalized communities such as artists, members of the diaspora, and LGBTQIA+, thereby challenging dominant paradigms and positioning the periphery as a vital site of transformative action and knowledge production. Through practical, context-sensitive solutions, the volume seeks to make PACS more responsive, equitable, and capable of fostering sustainable peace in an increasingly complex world.

This book will be of much interest to students and practitioners of peace and conflict studies, social justice, development studies and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maiangwa, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Marginalism, Violence, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding  Section I: Mapping Marginalism and Confronting Violence  Chapter 2: Am I Complicit? Seven Harms and Seven Remedies  Chapter 3: “Ethnopatriarchy:” Mohajir Women, Intersectionality, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding  Chapter 4: From the Margins: Informal Markets, Gender, and Everyday Peacebuilding  Chapter 5: Reclaiming Peace from the Margins: Queer Necropolitics and Activist Resistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina  Chapter 6: Stepping Out Violence in the Venezuelan-Colombian Border: Academics and Local Communities Overcoming Marginalization  Chapter 7: Trust and Sustainability in Return Migration: Insights from Conflict-Affected Communities and Implications for Peacebuilding  Section II: Creative Resistance and Emancipatory Peacebuilding  Chapter 8: The Aesthetics of Peace  Chapter 9: Meditations on Core-Periphery Relations, Marginal Spaces, and the Roaming Selves: A Postscript  Chapter 10: Spatial Identity and the Migrant’s Impulse: Selfhood, Justice, and Peace  Chapter 11: Not in My Backyard, Not My Problem: The Effect of Social Justice Discourse in Calling to Action for Community Wellbeing  Chapter 12: Social Inclusion, Peacebuilding, and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Peace Programs  Chapter 13: Protracted Absence, Disabled People, and Peace and Conflict Studies  Chapter 14: Conclusion: Weaving the Margins for Decolonial Peace

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Maiangwa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. He is author of The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria (2021), editor of The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging (2023), and One Boy: A Boarding School Memoir (2026).