The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace

In this handbook, a diverse range of leading
scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental
underpinnings of peace. This handbook is a much-needed response to the failures
of contemporary peacebuilding missions and narrow disciplinary debates, both of
which have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in International Relations
and Peace and Conflict studies. Scholars, students, and policymakers are often
disillusioned with universalist and northern-dominated approaches, and a better
understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, across
different regions, is required. Collectively, these chapters promote a more
differentiated notion of peace, employing comparative analysis to explain how
peace is debated and contested.