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Recent developments and debates have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in international relations and peace and conflict studies. Scholars, students and policy makers are often disillusioned with universalist and Northern-dominated approaches, in terms of methodology and epistemology.1 Universal blueprints on how to promote, build and sustain peace have to contend with not only ineffective policy designs, but also resistance within their ‘subject’ populations.2 What is needed is a better understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, both theoretically, in different academic disciplines, and empirically, across different regions, in order to promote a more differentiated notion of peace based on comparative analysis.3 Such an aim points to significant methodological requirements.4
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Vivienne Jabri, Discourses on Violence: Conflict Analysis Reconsidered (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996);
Kevin Avruch, Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Culture, Identity, Power, and Practice (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2012).
Oliver P. Richmond, A Post-Liberal Peace (London: Routledge, 2011).
David Mitrany, A Working Peace System (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1944);
John Burton, World Society (Cambridge University Press, 1972);
Johan Galtung, Peace by Peaceful Means (London: Sage, 1996).
Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker, Mediating across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (Honolulu: University Of Hawaii Press, 2010).
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Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (2016). Introduction. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_1
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