The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will include an extensive number of entries, which will eventually amount to over 750,000 words, if not over. Although the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will be organised alphabetically, entries will cover the following themes/sections:
1. Disciplinary knowledge. Entries under this section will provide a comprehensive coverage of peace, conflict and security cross different humanities and social science disciplines, including: political, science, International Relations, economics, international law, peace and conflict studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, psychology, area studies, post-colonial studies, history, the arts, and other sub-disciplines.
2. Key concepts. Entries under this section will cover key concepts on peace, conflict, and security, such as: peacekeeping, mediation and diplomacy, peacebuilding, statebuilding, reconciliation, transitional justice, security sector reform, civil society, human rights, post-conflict recovery, development, social movements and resistance, local infrastructures for peace, minority protection, institution-building, democratisation, elections, tolerance, compromise, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, horizontal inequality, apology and forgiveness, and hybridity.
3. Types of Conflicts. Entries under this section will examine different types of conflicts, such as: inter-state conflict, intra-state conflict, ethnic conflict, secessionist conflict, diplomatic conflict, environmental conflict, resource conflict, food conflict, water wars, etc.
4. Conflict-affected Societies. Entries under this section will examine a comprehensive country case studies of peace and conflict. Currently there are over 40 active conflicts in the world, while several others are either at a recovery stage or about to erupt. Main entries will include case study of past, present, and potential conflicts, as well as account for country-specific peace processes and challenges to recovery. Examples will include: Bosnia, Cambodia, Cyprus, Kosovo, East Timor, Namibia, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Guatemala, Columbia, Myanmar, Solomon Islands, Western Sahara, Yemen, Central African Republic, Somalia, Rwanda, and many other country case studies.
5. Actors, Institutions, Networks and Practices. Entries under this section will cover themes such as: international and regional organisations, including the UN, EU, African Union, OSCE, Council of Europe, World Bank, IMF, ASEAN, OAS, etc; non-governmental peace organisations, such as: HRW, AI, etc; actors such as UNSC permanent members, emerging powers (BRICS), small states, as well as influential figures; emerging networks; and practices such as mediation, diplomacy, sanctions etc.
6. Peace Operations. Entries under this section will document all UN and non-UN peace operations and military interventions since 1945. This will include preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and peacemaking operations, as well as other controversial examples of humanitarian interventions, occupation, and counter-insurgency.
7. Peace Agreements. This section will over a comprehensive outline of the evolution of peace treaties throughout history, ranging from the Kadesh Treaty in Mesopotamia and others ending major cycles of war such as those associated with Westphalia in 1648 to those of the Post War Era.
8. Peacegraphy and arts. Entries under this section will document the intellectual biographies of influential and world-renowned peace thinkers and practitioners (eg Gandhi, Einstein, Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Johann Galtung, and others). This has not featured before in other encyclopaedias of this type. This section will also offer a range of engagements with peace in literature, art, theatre, music, architecture, and other related areas.
Entries across these sections, entries will be presented alphabetically, as illustrated by this sample list of entries below:
Agents of peace
Anthropological approaches on peacebuilding
Arab Spring
Architecture
Art
Civil society
Civil wars
Complexity theory and peacebuilding practice
Conflict and Peace in Kosovo
Conflict management
Conflict management
Conflict mapping
Conflict resolution
Conflict transformation
Conflict, Terrorism, and Peacebuilding
Constructivism and peacebuilding
Council of Europe and Human Rights Protection
Critical theory and peace research
Democratisation
Drones
Elections in post-conflict societies
Emancipatory peace
Emerging powers and peacebuilding
Environmental conflicts
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic wars
Field work in conflict zones
Foucault on peace, conflict and security
Genocide
Geographies of peace
Global warming, resources, and civil conflicts
Globalisation and peacebuilding
Horizontal Inequalities
Human Rights Watch
Human security
Humanitarian action
Humanitarian Intervention
Hybrid peace
Hybrid peace
Hybrid Peacekeeping Operations
Hybrid political orders
Hybrid threats
Infrastructure for peace
Intelligence Studies and Peace-making Processes
International peace sociology
Johan Galtung
Liberal peace
Literature
Local ownership
Media, Conflict, and Peace
Migration and far-right groups
Migration and peacebuilding
Minority rights
Music
NGOs
Normalisation
Northern Ireland Peace Process
Nuclear wars
OSCE and Conflict Prevention
Pacifism
Peace activism
Peace agreements
Peace and Conflict in Sierra Leone
Peace celebrities
Peace diplomacy
Peace economics
Peace education
Peace ethnographies
Peace formation
Peace in Bosnia
Peace Methods
Peace research
Peace-making
Peacebuilding
Peaceful political orders
Peacekeeping
Peace Treaties
Performative peace
Positive peace
Post-colonial
Post-humanism and peacebuilding
Post-Liberal Peace
Postcolonial Approaches to Peace
Power-sharing
Preventive diplomacy
Realism and peacebuilding
Reconciliation
Resistance
Responsibility to Protect
Revolutionary justice
Rohingya and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar
Rule of law
Russian approach to conflict resolution
Scientific Realism and Peace Science
Secessionist conflicts
Securitisation
Security-Development Nexus
Self-determination disputes
Social capital and peace
Social movements for disarmament
Sociology of peace
Somalia
Statebuilding
Terrorism, counterinsurgency, and conflict management
The European Union and Peacebuilding
The right to peace
The rise of China and global security
Theatre-based peacebuilding
Tolerance
Traditional Peacekeeping Operations
Transitional justice
Truth and reconciliation commissions
UN Human Rights Council
UN Interim Mission in Kosovo
UN Peacebuilding Commission
UN Security Council and War-Making
Unrecognised states
Violent extremism
Visual peace
War and Peace in Afghanistan
Water wars
Women, peace, and security
Youth and peacebuilding
Confirmed Section editors/Editorial Board:
Dr Sandra Pogodda (University of Manchester)Dr Jan Pospisil (University of Edinburgh)Dr Stefanie Kappler (Durham University)
Vivienne Jabri (King's College London)Professor Richard Caplan (Oxford University)Roger MacGinty (Durham University)Susan Woodward (NYU)Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland)Caroline Hughes (University of Notre Dame)Tom Woodhouse (University of Bradford).
Also to note:"As outlined in the proposal and our response memo we will include scholars from global south. You have seen Oliver's series with Palgrave how well it is represented with scholars from global south. Currently, our proposed editorial team and section editors comprises of people working in a wide range of themes and regions and we are confident they will commission entries from global south scholars as well as entries using quantitative approaches/methods. This noted, once we set the project on track, Oliver and I are committed to expanding the editorial team and advisory board with scholars from global-south and quantitative methods."
