1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding and Ethnic Conflict

392 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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.