This updated and revised second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding contains cutting-edge analyses of contemporary attempts to reach and sustain peace.
The book covers the main actors and dynamics of peacebuilding, as well as the main challenges that it faces, with accessible chapters. The volume is comprehensive, covering everything from the main international institutions for peacebuilding to the links between peacebuilding and climate change, or peacebuilding and trauma. It is also firmly interdisciplinary, with a number of chapters devoted to showcasing how different disciplines interpret peacebuilding and how they contribute to it. Bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners on peacebuilding, many from the Global South, the handbook offers a valuable “hands-on” perspective on how peace can be secured and sustained. There is a significant emphasis on comparison and the book shows how peacebuilding is best examined from the vantage point of multiple cases.
The book is organised into six thematic sections:
Part I: Architecture and Actors
Part II: Reading Peacebuilding
Part III: Issues and Approaches
Part IV: Violence and Security
Part V: Everyday Living
Part VI: Disciplinary Approaches
This book will be essential reading for students of peacebuilding, mediation and post-conflict reconstruction, and of great interest to students of statebuilding, intervention, civil wars, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies and IR in general.
Introduction
Roger Mac Ginty
PART I: ARCHITECTURE AND ACTORS
1. The Evolution of Peacebuilding
Gëzim Visoka
2. The International Architecture of Peacebuilding
Edward Newman
3. Women, Peace and Security
Elena B. Stavrevska
4. Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Laura S. Martin
5. 'Illiberal Peacebuilding' and Authoritarian Conflict Management
David Lewis
6. Unusual Peacebuilders
Lior Lehrs
PART II: READING PEACEBUILDING
7. Problem-Solving and Critical Approaches
Michael Pugh
8. The Limits of Peacebuilding
Gerald M. Steinberg
9. A Postcolonial Reading of ‘Peace from Below’
Swati Parashar
10. African Perspectives on Peacebuilding
Cyril Obi
11. Agonistic Peacebuilding
Marko Lehti
PART III: ISSUES AND APPROACHES
12. Sustaining Peace Through Social Contracts
Erin McCandless
13. Gender and Peacebuilding
Maria O’Reilly
14. Religion and Peacebuilding
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
15. Climate Change and Peacebuilding
Florian Krampe and Cedric de Coning
16. Emotions, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding
Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker
17. Memory, Politics and Peace
David Mwambari and Andrea Purdeková
18. Storytelling and Peacebuilding
Benjamin Maiangwa, James Ojochenemi David, and Dominic James Aboi
19. Mediation and Peacebuilding
André Volk
20. Trauma and Peacebuilding
Heidi Riley
PART IV: VIOLENCE AND SECURITY
21. Security Sector Reform
Chido S Mutangadura-Yeswa
22. Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Repatriation in Africa
Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa
23. Violence Reduction and Peacebuilding
Rachel Locke
24. Zones of Peace
Landon E. Hancock
25. Community Self-Protection in Colombia
Beatriz Elena Arias-López and Laura Jiménez-Ospina
PART V: EVERYDAY LIVING
26. Everyday Peace
Helen Berents
27. Education, Learning and Peacebuilding
Patricia Maulden
28. Youth and Peacebuilding
Siobhan McEvoy-Levy
29. Everyday Political Economies of Peacebuilding
Daniela Lai
PART VI: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
30. International Relations Theory and Peacebuilding
Dominik Zaum
31. Sociology and Peacebuilding
John D Brewer
32. Sociolinguistics and Peacebuilding
Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous and Ben Rampton
33. Anthropology and Peacebuilding
Catherine E. Bolten
34. Social Psychology and Peacebuilding
Shelley McKeown-Jones
Biography
Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, and the Durham Global Security Institute, both at Durham University. He is author of three books, and has edited/co-edited 11 books. He is founding editor of the journal Peacebuilding and co-founder of the Everyday Peace Indicators.
'This is an excellent addition to the roster of background texts on peacebuilding and its many dimensions. It contains multiple up-to-date chapters that illustrate the complexity of the challenges facing peacebuilding, and the inadequacy of the current peace architectures and infrastructures as well as many of its processes. This is a must-read for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on peace and conflict.'
Oliver P. Richmond, University of Manchester, UK
'The Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding has garnered acclaim as an authoritative reference and educational text over the last decade. In its second edition, it further enriches its utility by incorporating critical assessments of emerging peacebuilding trends, amplifying perspectives from the Global South, and offering insightful reflections on the intricate nature of peacebuilding.'
SungYong Lee, Professor, Soka University, Japan
'With wars raging around the planet and numerous long-running conflicts unresolved, the need for peacebuilding has never been greater. Roger Mac Ginty has put together a cutting-edge collection of works on making and sustaining peace. The Handbook of Peacebuilding is particularly adept in showing the multi-dimensional nature of conflict and the need for us to take issues of gender, race, climate change, and poverty seriously when seeking to build peace.'Severine Autesserre, author of Peaceland and The Frontlines of Peace, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA
'At a time when the efforts of peacebuilders are being sorely challenged, this book responds to the need for an imaginative and effective response. The global voices and perspectives presented here provide an inspiring and energising vision to counter the violence which threatens to reverse the peacebuilding gains of the past twenty years. An outstanding and impressive achievement.'
Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford, UK
