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Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations: Rethinking Margins, Violence, and Power book cover

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Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations Rethinking Margins, Violence, and Power

Edited By Benjamin Maiangwa Copyright 2026
240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book offers a grounded framework for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) that not only analyses conflict but also actively contributes to the well-being 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,... Read more

1 Introduction: Marginalism, Violence, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding

Benjamin Maiangwa

SECTION I Mapping Marginalism and Confronting Violence

2 Am I Complicit? Seven Harms and Seven Remedies

Chuck Egerton

3 “Ethnopatriarchy”: Muhajir Women, Intersectionality, and Emancipatory Peacebuilding

Saad A. Khan

4 From the Margins: Informal Markets, Gender, and Everyday Peacebuilding

Oluchi Ogbu

5 Reclaiming Peace from the Margins: Queer Necropolitics and Activism Resistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mehmet Yavuz and Mariah Moore

6 Stepping Out Violence in the Venezuelan-Colombian Border: Academics and Local Communities Overcoming Marginalization

Eduardo Soto Parra S.J.

7 Trust and Sustainability in Return Migration: Insights from Conflict-Affected Communities and Implications for Peacebuilding

Onah P. Thompson

SECTION II Creative Resistance and Emancipatory Peacebuilding

8 The Aesthetics of Peace

Benjamin Maiangwa

9 Meditations on Core-Periphery Relations, Marginal Spaces, and the Roaming Selves: A Postscript

Dominic James Aboi

10 The Migrant’s Impulse: Selfhood, Justice, and Peace

Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

11 Not in My Back Yard, Not My Problem: The Effect of Social Justice Discourse in Calling to Action for Community Well-Being

Bob Chrismas and Brandi Schellenberg

12 Social Inclusion, Peacebuilding, and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Peace Programs

Ernesto Cardenas and Sean Byrne

13 Protracted Absence, Disabled People, and Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS)

Nancy Hansen

14 Conclusion: Weaving the Margins for Decolonial Peace

Christiane Ndedi Essombe

Biography

Benjamin Maiangwa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. He is the 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).

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