Peace and Conflict Studies was broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, influencing how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in the Global North via a core-periphery relationship with the Global South, automatically rejecting alternatives like Third Worldism. This has led to the implicit strengthening of asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge about peace, security, development and order has been produced. The Rowman and Littlefield handbook on ‘Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South’ addresses these hierarchies and contributes to an emerging research agenda outlining the different trajectories of conflict and violence, justice and peace both in the Global South and North. It establishes comparative parameters of debates on peace and war in a thorough academic discussion not only ABOUT but WITH, and perhaps also LED by the Global South, combining innovative and synergetic thinking between scholars from the North and the South to diversify scholarly thinking and concepts in Peace and Conflict Studies. It consists of 29 contributions with 48 contributors from Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, UK and Uganda among many others.
The pre-launch event as part of the network on Postcolonial Hierarchies will feature the key contributions of some of the authors who are currently based in Germany. More details can be found at the link below:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/sfb138/medien/programme_ic2024_website_2024-09-17.pdf
Speakers: Siddharth Tripathi & Solveig Richter (editors)
Presenters: Steve Wakhu Khaemba
Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Sushobhan Parida
Tareq Sydiq
Thorsten Bonacker
