The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-77955-9
Verlag: Springer, Berlin

Medienkombination, Englisch, 2000 Seiten, Book + Online Access, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of major theories and approaches to the study of peace and conflict across different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Peace and conflict studies (PCS) is one of the major sub-disciplines of international studies (including political science and international relations), and has emerged from a need to understand war, related systems and concepts and how to respond to it afterward. As a living reference work, easily discoverable and searchable, the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies offers solid material for understanding the foundational, historical, and contemporary themes, concepts, theories, events, organisations, and frameworks concerning peace, conflict, security, rights, institutions and development. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies brings together leading and emerging scholars from different disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on peace and conflict studies ever produced.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richmond, Oliver

Visoka, Gëzim

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will include an extensive number of entries, which will eventually amount to over 750,000 words, if not over. Although the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will be organised alphabetically, entries will cover the following themes/sections:
1. Disciplinary knowledge. Entries under this section will provide a comprehensive coverage of peace, conflict and security cross different humanities and social science disciplines, including: political, science, International Relations, economics, international law, peace and conflict studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, psychology, area studies, post-colonial studies, history, the arts, and other sub-disciplines.           2. Key concepts.  Entries under this section will cover key concepts on peace, conflict, and security, such as: peacekeeping, mediation and diplomacy, peacebuilding, statebuilding,  reconciliation, transitional justice, security sector reform, civil society, human rights, post-conflict recovery, development, social movements and resistance, local infrastructures for peace, minority protection, institution-building, democratisation, elections, tolerance, compromise, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, horizontal inequality, apology and forgiveness, and hybridity. 3. Types of Conflicts. Entries under this section will examine different types of conflicts, such as: inter-state conflict, intra-state conflict, ethnic conflict, secessionist conflict, diplomatic conflict, environmental conflict, resource conflict, food conflict, water wars, etc. 4. Conflict-affected Societies.  Entries under this section will examine a comprehensive country case studies of peace and conflict. Currently there are over 40 active conflicts in the world, while several others are either at a recovery stage or about to erupt. Main entries will include case study of past, present, and potential conflicts, as well as account for country-specific peace processes and challenges to recovery. Examples will include: Bosnia, Cambodia, Cyprus, Kosovo, East Timor, Namibia, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Guatemala, Columbia, Myanmar, Solomon Islands, Western Sahara, Yemen, Central African Republic, Somalia, Rwanda, and many other country case studies. 5. Actors, Institutions, Networks and Practices.  Entries under this section will cover themes such as: international and regional organisations, including the UN, EU, African Union, OSCE, Council of Europe, World Bank, IMF, ASEAN, OAS, etc; non-governmental peace organisations, such as:  HRW, AI, etc; actors such as UNSC permanent members, emerging powers (BRICS), small states, as well as influential figures; emerging networks; and practices such as mediation, diplomacy, sanctions etc. 6. Peace Operations. Entries under this section will document all UN and non-UN peace operations and military interventions since 1945. This will include preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and peacemaking operations, as well as other controversial examples of humanitarian interventions, occupation, and counter-insurgency. 7. Peace Agreements. This section will over a comprehensive outline of the evolution of peace treaties throughout history, ranging from the Kadesh Treaty in Mesopotamia and others ending major cycles of war such as those associated with Westphalia in 1648 to those of the Post War Era. 8. Peacegraphy and arts. Entries under this section will document the intellectual biographies of influential and world-renowned peace thinkers and practitioners (eg Gandhi, Einstein, Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Johann Galtung, and others). This has not featured before in other encyclopaedias of this type. This section will also offer a range of engagements with peace in literature, art, theatre, music, architecture, and other related areas.Entries across these sections, entries will be presented alphabetically, as illustrated by this sample list of entries below:
  Agents of peace
  Anthropological approaches on peacebuilding
  Arab Spring
  Architecture
  Art
  Civil society
  Civil wars
  Complexity theory and peacebuilding practice
  Conflict and Peace in Kosovo
  Conflict management
  Conflict management
  Conflict mapping
  Conflict resolution
  Conflict transformation
  Conflict, Terrorism, and Peacebuilding
  Constructivism and peacebuilding
  Council of Europe and Human Rights Protection
  Critical theory and peace research
  Democratisation
  Drones
  Elections in post-conflict societies
  Emancipatory peace
  Emerging powers and peacebuilding
  Environmental conflicts
  Ethnic cleansing
  Ethnic wars
  Field work in conflict zones
  Foucault on peace, conflict and security
  Genocide
  Geographies of peace
  Global warming, resources, and civil conflicts
  Globalisation and peacebuilding
  Horizontal Inequalities
  Human Rights Watch
  Human security
  Humanitarian action
  Humanitarian Intervention
  Hybrid peace
  Hybrid peace
  Hybrid Peacekeeping Operations
  Hybrid political orders
  Hybrid threats
  Infrastructure for peace
  Intelligence Studies and Peace-making Processes
  International peace sociology
  Johan Galtung
  Liberal peace
  Literature
  Local ownership
  Media, Conflict, and Peace
  Migration and far-right groups
  Migration and peacebuilding
  Minority rights
  Music
  NGOs
  Normalisation
  Northern Ireland Peace Process
  Nuclear wars
  OSCE and Conflict Prevention
  Pacifism
  Peace activism
  Peace agreements
  Peace and Conflict in Sierra Leone
  Peace celebrities
  Peace diplomacy
  Peace economics
  Peace education
  Peace ethnographies
  Peace formation
  Peace in Bosnia
  Peace Methods
  Peace research
  Peace-making
  Peacebuilding
  Peaceful political orders
  Peacekeeping
  Peace Treaties
  Performative peace
  Positive peace
  Post-colonial
  Post-humanism and peacebuilding
  Post-Liberal Peace
  Postcolonial Approaches to Peace
  Power-sharing
  Preventive diplomacy
  Realism and peacebuilding
  Reconciliation
  Resistance
  Responsibility to Protect
  Revolutionary justice
  Rohingya and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
  Rule of law
  Russian approach to conflict resolution
  Scientific Realism and Peace Science
  Secessionist conflicts
  Securitisation
  Security-Development Nexus
  Self-determination disputes
  Social capital and peace
  Social movements for disarmament
  Sociology of peace
  Somalia
  Statebuilding
  Terrorism, counterinsurgency, and conflict management
  The European Union and Peacebuilding
  The right to peace
  The rise of China and global security
  Theatre-based peacebuilding
  Tolerance
  Traditional Peacekeeping Operations
  Transitional justice
  Truth and reconciliation commissions
  UN Human Rights Council
  UN Interim Mission in Kosovo
  UN Peacebuilding Commission
  UN Security Council and War-Making
  Unrecognised states
  Violent extremism
  Visual peace
  War and Peace in Afghanistan
  Water wars
  Women, peace, and security
  Youth and peacebuilding
Confirmed Section editors/Editorial Board:
Dr Sandra Pogodda (University of Manchester)Dr Jan Pospisil (University of Edinburgh)Dr Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
Vivienne Jabri (King's College London)Professor Richard Caplan (Oxford University)Roger MacGinty (Durham University)Susan Woodward (NYU)Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland)Caroline Hughes (University of Notre Dame)Tom Woodhouse (University of Bradford).

Also to note:"As outlined in the proposal and our response memo we will include scholars from global south. You have seen Oliver's series with Palgrave how well it is represented with scholars from global south. Currently, our proposed editorial team and section editors comprises of people working in a wide range of themes and regions and we are confident they will commission entries from global south scholars as well as entries using quantitative approaches/methods. This noted, once we set the project on track, Oliver and I are committed to expanding the editorial team and advisory board with scholars from global-south and quantitative methods."

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Richmond is a Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He is also International Professor at Dublin City University and at the University of Tubingen. His publications include The Grand Design (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, and co-editor of the Journal, Peacebuilding. Dr Gëzim Visoka is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research expertise is on state recognition, peacebuilding and international critical theory. Dr Visoka is author or editor of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters. Some of the recent books include: The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation (with Oliver P. Richmond, Oxford University Press, 2021); Normalization in World Politics (with Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, The University of Michigan Press, 2022), and Routledge Handbook of State Recognition (with John Doyle and Edward Newman, Routledge, 2020), among others. He is Deputy Editor of Peacebuilding journal (Taylor and Francis), Editor of Routledge Studies in Statehood (Taylor and Francis) and Co-editor of Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies series (Palgrave Macmillan).