1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding and Ethnic Conflict
This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.
Comprising 28 chapters that present key insights on peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, the volume has implications for teaching and training, as well as for practice and policy. The handbook is divided into four thematic parts. Part 1 focuses on critical dimensions of ethnic conflicts, including root causes, gender, external involvements, emancipatory peacebuilding, hatred as a public health issue, environmental issues, American nationalism, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2 focuses on peacebuilders’ roles, including Indigenous peacemaking, nonviolent accompaniment, peace leadership in the military, interreligious peacebuilders, local women, and young people. Part 3 addresses the past and shaping of the future, including a discussion of public memory, heritage rights and monuments, refugees, trauma and memory, aggregated trauma in the African-American community, exhumations after genocide, and a healing-centered approach to conflict. Part 4 presents case studies on Sri Lanka’s postwar reconciliation process, peacebuilding in Mindanao, the transformative peace negotiation in Aceh and Bougainville, external economic aid for peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, Indigenous and local peacemaking, and a continuum of peacebuilding focal points. The handbook offers perspectives on the breadth and significance of peacebuilding work in ethnic conflicts throughout the world.
This volume will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, ethnic conflict, security studies, and international relations.
Introduction
Introduction: Peacebuilding and ethnic conflict
Jessica Senehi, Imani Michelle Scott, Sean Byrne, and Thomas G. Matyók
Part 1: Key Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts
1. The roots of ethnopolitical conflict
Stuart J. Kaufman
2. How gender is implicated in ethnopolitical conflict
Franke Wilmer
3. Complex effects of external involvements in ethnopolitical violence
Marie Olson Lounsbery and Frederic S. Pearson
4. Re-examining peacebuilding priorities: Liberal peace and the emancipatory critique
Andrew E. E. Collins and Chuck Thiessen
5. Hatred is a contagious disease and public health issue in ethnopolitical conflicts
Izzeldin Abuelaish
6. The environment and peacebuilding in ethnic conflict
Ane Cristina Figueiredo and Calum Dean
7. Deconstructing the relapse of American nationalism
Harry Anastasiou and Michaelangelo Anastasiou
8. How does the COVID-19 pandemic influence peacebuilding, diversity management, the handling of ethnic conflict, and ethnic minorities?
Mitja Žagar
Part 2: Peacebuilders in Ethnic Conflicts
9. Indigenous peacemaking and restorative justice
Brandon Lundy, J. Taylor Downs, and Amanda Reinke
10. Interactive conflict resolution: Addressing the essence of ethnopolitical conflict and peacebuilding
Ronald J. Fisher
11. Selected dynamics of nonviolent accompaniment and unarmed civilian protection
Patrick G. Coy
12. Peace leadership, security, and the role of the military in ethnopolitical conflict
Ivan Ilunga and Thomas G. Matyók
13. Interreligious peacebuilding: An emerging pathway for sustainable peace
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
14. The laughter that knows the darkness: The Mamas’ resistance to annihilative violence in West Papua
Julian Smythe
15. The role of youth in ethnopolitical conflicts
Alpaslan Özerdem and Cihan Dizdaroglu
Part 3: Addressing the Past and Shaping the Future
16. On peacebuilding and public memory: Iconoclasm, dialogue, and race
Adam Muller
17. When the past is always present: Heritage rights, monuments, and cultural divides
Anya B. Russian
18. Voices of their own: Refugees missing home and building a future
Umut Ozkaleli
19. Trauma, recovery, and memory
Joseph Robinson
20. A season of reckoning for the children: Exploring the realities of aggregated trauma in the African American community
Imani Michele Scott
21. Peace after genocide: Exhumations, expectations, and peacebuilding efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hasan Nuhanović and Sarah Wagner
22. A healing-centered peacebuilding approach
Angie Yoder
Part 4: Approaches and Cases
23. Sri Lanka’s post-war reconciliation: Reconciling the local and international
S. I. Keethaponcalon
24. Emancipatory peacebuilding and conflict transformation: Mindanao as a case study
Wendy Kroeker
25. Transformative peace negotiation
SungYong Lee
26. External aid and peacebuilding
Sean Byrne and Calum Dean
27. Bringing the Indigenous into mainstream peacemaking and peacebuilding in farmer-herder conflicts: Some critical reflections
Surulola Eke and Sean Byrne
28. Focal points in ethnic conflict: A peacebuilding continuum
Jessica Senehi
Conclusions
Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approaches to analyze and transform ethnic conflict: Lessons learned (in addressing the legacy of the past in order to shape the future)
Imani Michelle Scott, Jessica Senehi, Sean Byrne, and Thomas G. Matyók
Biography
Jessica Senehi is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Imani Michelle Scott is a Professor of Communication at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.
Sean Byrne is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Thomas G. Matyók is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Executive Director of the Joint Civil-Military Interaction Research and Education Network at Middle Georgia State University, USA.
