This book proposes to think about conflict in a way connected to the intersecting inequalities of gender, race, class, and territory that have hierarchized the world's populations since colonization and created the conditions for genocides and “epistemicides”.The book presents a broader spectrum of global challenges by highlighting the inequalities that sustain a profoundly unequal order even in traditionally perceived peaceful periods. To address such challenges, it is necessary, as the authors of the volume argue, to break down the walls of masculinized, patriarchal, white-centric, and elitist structures that continue to guarantee privileges for a reduced portion of the world's population.

Marcial A. G. Suarez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói – Rio de Janeiro. He is a former research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

Tatiana Moura is Senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), where she coordinates the Observatory on Masculinities, coordinates regionally the MenCare Campaign, and several national and international projects on masculinities and gender violence prevention with a relevant impact in the production of contributions to programs and public policies in the European context.

Marília Carolina B. de Souza Pimenta is a researcher at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, at Maxwell School of Syracuse University, researcher/collaborator at NUPRI-USP. Lecturer at the State University of São Paulo-UNESP. She is a member of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) and a member of the International Studies Association.

Marta Fernández is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI-PUC/Rio), where she earned her PhD. She is also the Director of the BRICS Policy Center, a think tank affiliated with IRI-PUC/Rio. Marta served as Director of IRI/PUC-Rio (2016-2020) and President of the Brazilian International Relations Association (2021-2023). Her research focuses on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, race, and gender.