PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 1. History Peace in History; John Gittings 2. Politics and Governance: From Emergency to Emergence ; David Chandler 3. Philosophy: The Philosophy of Peace; Nick Rengger 4. International Relations: Peace in International Relations Theory; Oliver P. Richmond 5. Anthropology: Implications for Peace; Genevieve Souillac and Douglas P. Fry 6. Arts and Theatre for Peacebuilding; Nilanjana Premaratna and Roland Bleiker 7. Sociology: A Sociological Critique of Liberal Peace; Nicos Trimikliniotis 8. Economics: Neoliberal Peace and the Politics of Social Economics; Brendan Murtagh 9. Geography: Geography and Peace; Nick Megoran, Fiona McConnell and Phillipa Williams 10. Development: Peace and Development Studies; Caroline Hughes 11. Postcolonialism: A Postcolonial Perspective on Peacebuilding; Vivienne Jabri 12. Religion: Peace through Non-Violence in Four Religious Traditions; Caron Gentry 13. Gender: The Missing Piece in the Peace Puzzle; Annika Bjorkdahl and Johanna M. Selimovic 14. Education: Cultural Reproduction, Revolution and Peacebuilding in Conflict-affected Societies; Tejendra Pherali 15. Children: Children and Peace; Ben Collins and Alison Watson 16. Social Psychology: Social Psychology and Peace; Shelley McKeown and Daniel Christie 17. Humanitarianism: Humanitarianism and Peace; Jenny H. Peterson 18. International Law: To End the Scourge of War ... and to Build a Just Peace?; Wendy Lambourne 19. Indigeneity and Peace; Morgan Brigg and Polly O. Walker 20. Critical Security Studies: Alternative Dialogues for Peace Reconstructing 'Language Barriers' and 'Talking Points'; Faye Donnelly PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 21. South Africa's Incomplete Peace; Andries Odendaal 22. West Africa: Peace in West Africa; Patrick Tom 23. The Great Lakes Region of Africa; Local Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding from the Democratic Republic of Congo ; Josaphat M. Bussy and Carol Gallo 24. The Horn of Africa: Peace in the Horn of Africa; Christopher Clapham 25. Southeast Asia: Peace through Retribution or Reconciliation? Some Insights and Evidence from Southeast Asia; Sorpong Peou 26. East Asia: Understanding the Broken Harmony in Confucian Asia; Ching-Chang Chen 27. South Asia: Human Development and Minority Empowerment - Exploring Regional Perspectives on Peace in South Asia; Florian Krampe and Ashok Swain 28. Emerging Countries: Peace and the Emerging Countries; Kai Michael Kenkel 29. Central Asia Central Asia: Contested Peace; David Lewis 30. Middle East and North Africa: Hegemonic Modes of Pacification in Crisis; Sandra Pogodda 31. Europe: Peace in Europe; Roberto Belloni 32. Balkans; Jasmin Ramovic 33. South America; Peacebuilding in South America: Roddy Brett and Diana Florez 34. Central America: From War to Violence; Jenny Pearce 35. North America: Peace Studies versus the Hegemony of Realist and Liberal Methods; Henry F. Carey 36. Pacific: Peace in the Pacific - Grounded in Local Custom, Adapting to Change; Volker Boege