The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

1. Alternative Dispute Resolution

   • David Churchman

2. Armed Conflicts in Africa and Indigenous Conflict Resolution

   • Luqman B. Ajala

3. Art and Reconciliation

   • Rachel Kerr

4. Artpeace: Validating Political Power or Imagining Emancipation

   • Oliver P. Richmond

5. Asian Approaches to Peace

   • Yuji Uesugi

6. Assessment of Peace Operations

   • Paul F. Diehl, Daniel Druckman

7. Asymmetrical Warfare

   • Alejandro Chehtman

8. Auto-photography

   • Leena Vastapuu

9. Balkan as a Concept

   • Maria Todorova

10. Balkanization

    • Liridona Veliu

11. Bosnian Genocide

    • Jasmin Mujanović

12. Cameroon and the Anglophone Crisis

    • Billy Agwanda, Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Ugur Yasin Asal

13. Census Politics in Deeply Divided Societies

    • Laurence Cooley

14. Civil Resistance for Peace and Conflict Management, Role of

    • Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Michael Schulz, Stellan Vinthagen

15. Civil Society and Peacebuilding: Critical Review

    • Yaser Alashqar

16. Civil Society and State Violence in South America

    • Marcos Alan Ferreira, Evellin C. da Silva

17. Civil Society Inclusion in Peace Mediation

    • Sara Hellmüller

18. Civil Wars in Sudan and South Sudan

    • Luka Biong D. Kuol

19. Collective Security and Collective Responsibility in International Interventions

    • Antonio de Aguiar Patriota

20. Colombian Peace Agreement 2016

    • Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Elise Ditta, Juanita Esguerra-Rezk, Patrick McQuestion

This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of major theories and approaches to the study of peace and conflict across different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Peace and conflict studies (PCS) is one of the major sub-disciplines of international studies (including political sciences and international relations), and has emerged from a need to understand war, related systems and concepts and how to respond to it afterward. PCS has become an important site for inter-disciplinary studies, spanning war studies, security and development; state formation and statebuilding; law and human rights; civil society and political authority; philosophy and religion; the anthropology and history of political order; environmental dimensions; as well as the arts and literature, psychology, and material conditions of peace, peacemaking, peace agreements, the peaceful state, the nature of regional and international cooperation, and organisation, and more.


The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will bring together leading scholars from different disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on peace and conflict studies ever produced. 

• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Peace
• Conflict
• NGOs
• United Nations
• Peacekeeping
• Mediation
• Diplomacy
• Statebuilding
• Transitional justice
• Human Rights
• War Crimes
• Minority Protection
• Social Movements
• Peace Operations
• Peace Thinkers
• Peace Agreements
• Post-Conflict Recovery

• Department of Politics/IR, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  Oliver Richmond

• School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  Gëzim Visoka

Oliver P. Richmond is a Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tromso, Norway. Prof. Richmond’s research focuses on critical peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, statebuilding, post-liberal and hybrid peace, and peace formation. He is the series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies series and the journal Peacekeeping. He will receive the ISA Distinguished Scholar (Peace Studies Section) in 2019 in recognition of outstanding contribution to peace and conflict studies.

Gëzim Visoka is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding and state recognition. Dr Visoka has written and edited six books, 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 10 book chapters with leading academic publishers including co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation and The Routledge Handbook of State Recognition.

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