The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace (Palgrave Handbooks)

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. 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.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Framework for Global Approaches to Peace: An Introduction (Aigul Kulnazarova)....Pages 3-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-28 Cosmopolitan Paths to Peace (Richard Falk)....Pages 29-46 Peace, R2P and Public Goods Theory (Bjørn Møller)....Pages 47-68 Gandhism and Peace (Ramin Jahanbegloo)....Pages 69-85 Feminist Continua in Peace and Conflict Studies (Amanda E. Donahoe)....Pages 87-107 The Liberal Peace: Challenges to Development, Democracy, and Soft Power (Syed Mansoob Murshed)....Pages 109-127 Human Security and the Socialization of Peace (Leonard Hammer)....Pages 129-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-149 Singapore’s Small State Domestic Peacemaking: “Quiet Under the Banyan Tree” (Alan Chong)....Pages 151-172 Peace in Rwanda: Balancing the ICTR and “Gacaca” in Postgenocide Peacebuilding (Jean-Damascène Gasanabo)....Pages 173-191 Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice (D. Conor Seyle)....Pages 193-213 Russian Approaches to International Peace, Security, and Institutions: Debating Within IR Schools (Alexander Sergunin)....Pages 215-242 Reframing the Principle of Noninterference: Reflections of Chinese School Debates and Beijing’s Approach to Peace (Li Li)....Pages 243-261 Japan’s Thorny Path to Peace: Past, Present, and Future (Kazuya Asakawa)....Pages 263-278 Building Peace Through Ubuntu in the Aftermath of Electoral Violence in Divided African Societies (Lembe Tiky)....Pages 279-297 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 Front Matter ....Pages 319-321 Peace in Europe: The Role of the European Union in Peacebuilding and Security (Maria Stoicheva)....Pages 323-345 Which “ASEAN Way” Forward?: Southeast Asian Perspectives on Peace and Institutions (Ekaterina Koldunova)....Pages 347-366 A Latin American Approach to Peace: The Case of MERCOSUR (Felicitas Acosta)....Pages 367-392 The African Peace and Security Architecture: An African Response to Regional Peace and Security Challenges (Dêlidji Eric Degila, Charles K. Amegan)....Pages 393-409 Official Discourses on Peace and Security in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Medet Tiulegenov)....Pages 411-434 Front Matter ....Pages 435-439 International Women’s Organizations, Peace and Peacebuilding (Joyce Goodman)....Pages 441-460 The Role of Religious Institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy (Yuri Stoyanov)....Pages 461-476 The OECD Development Assistance Committee and Peace: Instituting Peace by Economic Means (Christian Ydesen, Joren Verschaeve)....Pages 477-495 The UN Security Council and Responsibility to Protect as Global Approach to Prevent Mass Atrocities (Vesselin Popovski)....Pages 497-517 Peace Process, International Organizations and the “Kurdish Question” (Pavel Shlykov)....Pages 519-544 The Role of International Organizations in Peace and Reconciliation in Kenya (Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Michael Omondi Owiso)....Pages 545-560 Transnational Governance and Peace Processes: The Case of the UN and ICC in Colombia (Adriana Rincón, Consuelo Sánchez Bautista, Jeffrey D. Pugh)....Pages 561-584 Front Matter ....Pages 585-588 Peace Institutions: Gandhism, Conflict Solution, Lifting the Bottom Up (Johan Galtung)....Pages 589-600 Toward Engendered-Sustainable Peace to End Patriarchal Violence (Úrsula Oswald Spring)....Pages 601-623 Transitional Justice: Between Peacebuilding and Reconciliation (Anja Mihr)....Pages 625-642 Peace, Politics, and Religion (Jeffrey Haynes)....Pages 643-662 Approaching Peace Visually: Global Imaginaries and Narratives of Everyday Peacebuilding (Tommaso Durante)....Pages 663-683 In Search for Peace in the Arctic (Valery Konyshev, Alexander Sergunin)....Pages 685-716 International Norms and Future Peacebuilding (Alistair D. Edgar)....Pages 717-729 Front Matter ....Pages 731-731 The Global Approaches and the Future of Peace Research (Vesselin Popovski)....Pages 733-747 Back Matter ....Pages 749-765 "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." --From publisher's description