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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace. The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns, and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions.

Chapter 1 Introduction (Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett, Birte Vogel) -- Chapter 2 How I dealt with my ethics committee, and survived (Jonathan Fisher). Chapter 3 When Humans Become Data (Roxani Krystalli) -- Chapter 4 Researching Over-Researched Societies (Grainne Kelly) -- Chapter 5 Preparing for fieldwork interviews (Berit Bliesemann de Guevara & Birgit Poopuu) -- Chapter 6 Being Indiana Jones in IR: The pressure to do 'real' fieldwork (Laura Routley and Katharine Wright) -- Chapter 7 Interview locations (Paul Jackson) -- Chapter 8 From risk aversion to risk management (Sophie Roborgh) -- Chapter 9 Researching 'militant groups' (James W. McAuley) -- Chapter 10 The Ethics of Ethnographic Peace and Conflict Research (Gearoid Millar) -- Chapter 11 Solitary Decision-Making and Fieldwork Safety (Max Gallien) -- Chapter 12 Making Contact: Interviewing Rebels in Sierra Leone (Kieran Mitton) -- Chapter 13 Participatory Action Research: Challenges and rewards in fifteen field lessons (Georgina McAllister) -- Chapter 14 Conflict ethnography goes online: Chatnography of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions (Ilmari Käihkö) -- Chapter 15 Negotiating relationships with vulnerable communities (Nick Morgan) -- Chapter 16 Gatekeepers (Gyda M. Sindre) -- Chapter 17 Working with Translators: Implications of the Translator's Positionality for the Research Process and Knowledge Production (Kristina Tschunkert) -- Chapter 18 Facing Violence in the Field (Roddy Brett) -- Chapter 19 Interviewing Perpetrators of Genocide (Manolo E. Vela Castañeda) -- Chapter 20 Interviewing Elites (Christine Wade) -- Chapter 21 (Secrecy and silence in fieldwork: reflections on feminist research on violence in Latin America (Mo Hume) -- Chapter 22 Read the Room: Side-by-Side methodology in a Belfast ice hockey arena (Eric Lepp) -- Chapter 23 Traversing Fieldwork with Imperfect Language Skills (Simon Philpott) -- Chapter 24 Confessions of a Local Researcher (Nemanja Džuverović) -- Chapter 25 Gendered challenges to fieldwork in conflict-affected areas (Kathleen M. Jennings) -- Chapter 26 Race, positionality and the researcher (Sarah Njeri) -- Chapter 27 Fixers and friends – local and international researchers (Morten Bøås) -- Chapter 28 "Mummy I want to go home": Children and Parenthood in the Field (Jenna Murray de López) -- Chapter 29 Privilege (Stefanie Kappler) -- Chapter 30 From the field back to academia (Malgorzata Polanska) -- Chapter 31 The Politics and Practicalities of Writing (Birte Vogel and Roger Mac Ginty) -- Chapter 32 Writing and the Ethics of Representation (Angela J. Lederach) -- Chapter 33 Giving back: A conversation between researcher and refugee (Jessica Field and Ali Johar).

"This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa's progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria's Nollywood film industry, Kenya's fashion, sport diplomacy, and tourism industries, and finally Egypt's reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria's Omolu̹waÌ⁰bi̹, South Africa's Ubuntu, Kenya's Harambee, and Egypt's pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies"--

"The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, care? In The Frontlines of Peace, Severine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and peacebuilder, examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. With examples drawn from across the globe, she reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances. Contrary to what most politicians preach, building peace doesn't require billions in aid or massive international interventions. Real, lasting peace requires giving power to local citizens. The Frontlines of Peace tells the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and organizations that are confronting violence in their communities effectively. One thing is clear: successful examples of peacebuilding around the world, in countries at war or at peace, have involved innovative grassroots initiatives led by local people, at times supported by foreigners, often employing methods shunned by the international elite. By narrating success stories of this kind, Autesserre shows the radical changes we must take in our approach if we hope to build lasting peace around us--whether we live in Congo, the United States, or elsewhere"--

"Unconventional Combat illuminates the current generational transformation of the U.S. veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older, White men of the Vietnam War era, to one increasingly driven by a younger and much more diverse cohort of "Post 9/11" veterans. Participant observation with two organizations (Veterans For Peace, and About Face) and interviews with older men veterans form the backdrop for the book's main focus, life-history interviews with six younger veterans-all people of color, four of them women, one a Native Two-Spirit person, four of whom identify as queer. The book traces these veterans' experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service (some of it in combat zones), centering on their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. As veterans, this knowledge shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement, and also holds the potential to provide a connective language through which veterans' anti-militarism work organically links them with movement groups working on racial justice, stopping gender and sexual violence, addressing climate change, and building national and international anti-colonial coalitions. This promise is sometimes thwarted by older veterans, whose activism includes a commitment to "diversity" that often falls short of creating and maintaining organizational space for full inclusion of previously marginalized "others." Intersectionality has increasingly become the analytic coin of today's emergent movement field, and the connective tissue of a growing coalitional politics. The younger, diverse group of veterans I focus on in this book are part of this larger shift in the social movement ecology, and they contribute a critical understanding of war and militarism to progressive coalitions"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: exploring the nexus between gendered violence and human rights -- PART I: The language of violence in gendered spaces -- 1 The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe Beyala's Le Christ selon l'Afrique -- 2 Gendered violence and narrative erasure: women in Athol Fugard's Tsotsi and Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- 3 Exploring the language of violence and human rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature -- 4 Women on the move: the construction of the woman migrant's story in African cinema -- PART II: Sexualities, cultures and exclusions -- 5 "Putting her in her place!": gender and sexual violence in Sefi Atta's Everything Good will Come and Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives -- 6 Human rights in spaces of violence: exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian sexuality in selected African fiction by women -- 7 Gender, disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice Lamwaka -- PART III: Subverting stories of war -- 8 Women and violence on the Algerian screen: documenting les années noires in Yasmina Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat! (Enough!) -- 9 "A strange combination of femininity and menace": re-thinking the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost Souls -- 10 Domestic violence in China Keitetsi's Child Soldier -- 11 Gendered spaces and war: fighting and narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war -- PART IV: Re-reading trauma and dehumanisation -- 12 Politics, narrative and subjectivities in Fanta Régina Nacro's The Night of Truth -- 13 Crime, punishment and retribution: the politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John's Unburnable.

International Law and Peace Settlements provides a systematic and comprehensive assessment of the relationship between international law and peace settlement practice across core settlement issues, e.g. transitional justice, human rights, refugees, self-determination, power-sharing, and wealth-sharing. The contributions address key cross-cutting questions on the legal status of peace agreements, the potential for developing international law, and the role of key actors - such as non-state armed groups, third-state witnesses and guarantors, and the UN Security Council - in the legalisation and internationalisation of settlement commitments. In recent years, significant scholarly work has examined facets of the relationship between international law and peace settlements, through concepts such as jus post bellum and lex pacificatoria. International Law and Peace Settlements drives forward the debate on the legalisation and internationalisation of peace agreements with diverse contributions from leading academics and practitioners in international law and conflict resolution.

Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young people's engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It presents empirical findings on the challenges and opportunities faced by young women and men in their efforts to build more peaceful, inclusive, and environmentally secure societies. The chapters included in this edited volume examine the diversity and complexity of young people's engagement for peace and security in different countries across the globe and in different types and phases of conflict and violence, including both conflict-affected and relatively peaceful societies. Chapter contributors, young peacebuilders, and seasoned scholars and practitioners alike propose ways to support youth's agency and facilitate their meaningful participation in decision-making. The chapters are organized around five broad thematic issues that correspond to the 5 Pillars of Action identified by UN Security Council Resolution 2250. Lessons learned are intended to inform the global youth, peace, and security agenda so that it better responds to on-the-ground realities, hence promoting more sustainable and inclusive approaches to long-lasting peace.

Using empirical qualitative research, this book conceptualises and demonstrates the value of local practical knowledge for peacebuilding in the context of Northern Ireland. There are increasing calls to involve local people to ensure legitimacy, relevance, and sustainability when seeking to build peace and transform violent conflict. However, as peacebuilding becomes increasingly professionalised, this raises fundamental questions about whose knowledge matters for building peace and what kind of knowledge matters. Seeking to address these questions and to learn from applied practice, this book provides a qualitative empirical research study, investigating 40 practitioners active in conflict transformation at a grassroots level in Northern Ireland over 50 years. This research led not only to recapturing lost knowledge from practitioners, but also to a neglected 'virtue' - the Aristotelian concept of practical wisdom, phronesis. This book argues that phronesis has deepened our understanding of why 'local' practical knowledge is vitally important and calls for its global rediscovery as knowledge necessary for building sustainable peace.

2019 ist die Monografie Drei Wurzeln des Krieges. Und warum nur eine nicht ins Verderben führt von Bernhard Taureck erschienen. Es handelt sich dabei um einen der wenigen aktuellen philosophischen Beiträge zur Theorie des Krieges, die sich nicht (wie etwa bei Michael Walzer) auf die Frage moralischer Rechtfertigung von Kriegen beschränken. Das Buch beinhaltet vielmehr neben mannigfaltigen Rückgriffen auf die Kriegsdiskurse der Antike und deren vielfache Aktualitätsbezüge eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie radikal Krieg unsere Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft bestimmt. Darauf nehmen interdisziplinäre Stellungnahmen zu Taurecks prägnant zusammengefasstem Ansatz im gemeinsamen Interesse an Auswegen kritisch Bezug.