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This edited volume is a response to a cri de coeur for research to investigate the interconnectedness between space, peace and conflict. It calls for a careful rethinking of their relationship in order to understand where peace and conflict ‘take place’. Spatial analysis can provide new and important insights into the dynamics of conflict and processes of peace as situated within and constitutive of different spaces and agencies. Material structures such as borders and boundaries, war zones, dividing bridges and peace gardens determine how various agents manoeuvre and how they encounter each other. At the same time, spatial features are the result of these forms of interaction, and social interactions may lead to material expressions, reshaping and changing spaces, and as a consequence the way individuals and groups can move within them. There is thus a duality of space and agency; they are mutually constitutive.
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Björkdahl, A., Buckley-Zistel, S. (2016). Spatializing Peace and Conflict: An Introduction. In: Björkdahl, A., Buckley-Zistel, S. (eds) Spatializing Peace and Conflict. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550484_1
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