The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace

This volume examines conceptual, disciplinary, institutional (normative) and global interpretive frameworks for making and building peace in the context of roles played by state and non-state actors within local, national, regional, and global units of analysis. Although academic literature on the subject has been steadily expanding in recent years, understanding peace globally has been insufficiently reflected. On the other hand, the focus on Western perspectives of peace, and their universal applications elsewhere, has conversely spawned alternative discourses critical of dominant realist and liberal approaches for creating crises in contemporary state- and peacebuilding. Such critical perspectives of peace emphasize not only resolving the eternal conundrum of humanity, but also urgently call for―with the rise of increasingly more violent clashes and tensions―a fresh agenda for developing global interpretive frameworks for peace in international relations discourses.