Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies: Approaches and Tensions

Millar, Gearoid

This volume calls for an empirical extension of the “local turn” within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-12-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319655628

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65563-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 285