The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Framework for Global Approaches to Peace: An Introduction

      • Aigul Kulnazarova

      Pages 3-24

3. Conceptual Approaches to Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-28

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   2. Cosmopolitan Paths to Peace

      • Richard Falk

      Pages 29-46

   3. Peace, R2P and Public Goods Theory

      • Bjørn Møller

      Pages 47-68

   4. Gandhism and Peace

      • Ramin Jahanbegloo

      Pages 69-85

   5. Feminist Continua in Peace and Conflict Studies

      • Amanda E. Donahoe

      Pages 87-107

   6. The Liberal Peace: Challenges to Development, Democracy, and Soft Power

      • Syed Mansoob Murshed

      Pages 109-127

   7. Human Security and the Socialization of Peace

      • Leonard Hammer

      Pages 129-144

4. Domestic Approaches to Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-149

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   2. Singapore’s Small State Domestic Peacemaking: “Quiet Under the Banyan Tree”

      • Alan Chong

      Pages 151-172

   3. Peace in Rwanda: Balancing the ICTR and “Gacaca” in Postgenocide Peacebuilding

      • Jean-Damascène Gasanabo

      Pages 173-191

   4. Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice

      • D. Conor Seyle

      Pages 193-213

   5. Russian Approaches to International Peace, Security, and Institutions: Debating Within IR Schools

      • Alexander Sergunin

      Pages 215-242

   6. Reframing the Principle of Noninterference: Reflections of Chinese School Debates and Beijing’s Approach to Peace

      • Li Li

      Pages 243-261

   7. Japan’s Thorny Path to Peace: Past, Present, and Future

      • Kazuya Asakawa

      Pages 263-278

   8. Building Peace Through Ubuntu in the Aftermath of Electoral Violence in Divided African Societies

      • Lembe Tiky

      Pages 279-297

   9. Did Colombians Really Say “No” to Peace?: A Grassroots Peace Activism Versus Top-Down Approach

      • Juan Fernando Lucio, D. Conor Seyle, Alexandra Amling

      Pages 299-318

5. Regional Approaches to Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-321

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With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed. Spurred by more recent debates and discourses that criticize the dominant realist and liberal approaches for crises in contemporary state- and peace-building, the contributors to this handbook emphasize not only the need to solve this eternal conundrum of humanity, but also demand—with the rise of increasingly more violent conflicts in international relations—the development of a global interpretive framework for peace and security. To this end, the present handbook examines conceptual, institutional and normative interpretive approaches for making, building and promoting peace in the context of roles played by state and non-state actors within local, national, regional, and global units of analysis.

• Global Peace
• Building Peace
• contemporary state- and peacebuilding
• critical perspectives on peace
• peace thinking
• voices from the Global South
• Democratic Peace theory
• peace in international law
• sustainable peace
• international peace through governance

• Tama University, Fujisawa, Japan

  Aigul Kulnazarova

• Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India

  Vesselin Popovski

Aigul Kulnazarova is Professor of International Relations and International Law in the School of Global Studies at Tama University, Japan.


Vesselin Popovski is Professor and Vice Dean in the School of Law, as well as Director of the Centre for UN Studies, at Jindal Global University, India. 

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