Väyrynen, Tarja. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 146-159. Drawing on feminist peace and conflict studies, this article situates peace in the everyday as an ontological disruption to traditional peace studies. This…
Pugh, Michael. 2004. International Peacekeeping 11, no. 1: 39-58. This text views peace operations through the lens of governance where the distribution of aid and resources is employed to both reinforce the values of…
Galtung, Johan. 1971. Journal of Peace Research 8, no. 2: 81-117. Echoing Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory, this source conceptualises imperialism as being separated into cores and peripheries, where there…
Randazzo, Elisa. 2021. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15, no. 2: 141-160. This article advocates the study of relationality where interactions and relations between both internal and external actors are not…
Doyle, Michael W. 2005. American political science review 99, no. 3: 463-466. This short journal piece introduces the “Liberal Peace Theory”, the concept of how peace is formed and maintained between liberal states in…
Van den Dungen, Peter, and Lawrence S. Wittner. 2003. Journal of Peace Research 40, no. 4: 363-375. This piece provides an introduction to Peace Studies within History, emphasising the social nature of the study.…
Gittings, John. 2016. In: Richmond, Oliver, Sandra Pogodda, and Jasmin Ramovic, eds. ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace.’ Springer: 21-31. Gittings examines the theoretical element…
Huysmans, Jef. (June 1998) European Journal of International Relations 4, no. 2 This article analyses the nexus between theory and practical action. More specifically, Huysmans uses the term “thick signifier” to…
Reid L. (2021) Journal of Peace Research. 58(6) This article explores the consequences of peace agreements being gender-inclusive and how this practice actively promotes gender standardization. Reid analyses a set of…
Ogbonna, Chidiebere C. (2018) International Journal on World Peace 35, no. 1 This article analyses the apparent paradox of belligerent peace, explaining the concept and showing how Western powers have used sanctions to…