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This paper explores the relationship between health initiatives and peace initiatives in the context of armed conflict. Our working definition of a "Health‐Peace Initiative" (HPI) is any initiative that intends to improve the health of people and that simultaneously heightens that group's level of peace, whether this peace is internal to the group or between the group and one or more other groups. We seek to identify multiple tracks to peace within a global analysis, arguing that HPIs should comprise an additional "track" in terms of their utility to the peace process. We offer examples of various kinds of HPIs already in use throughout the world.

The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in secular and faith traditions. At the same time, as a relatively new and interdisciplinary field, it is ripe with innovation. This volume, the first in the series Peace Studies: Edges and Innovations, edited by Michael Minch and Laura Finley of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), is edited by top Canadian and US scholars in the field and captures both those traditions and innovations, focusing on enduring questions, organizing an