Description
Peace and Conflict Studies was broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, influencing how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in the Global North via a core-periphery relationship with the Global South, automatically rejecting alternatives like Third Worldism. This has led to the implicit strengthening of asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge about peace, security, development and order has been produced. Thus, there is a need to make the discipline more inclusive by setting a different agenda by taking cognizance of the grounded and global scale realities– political, economic, and social – of the Global South. This paper addresses this gap and contributes to an emerging research agenda outlining the different trajectories of conflict and violence, justice and peace both in the Global South and North. It establishes comparative parameters of debates on peace and war in a thorough academic discussion not only ABOUT but WITH, and perhaps also LED by the Global South, combining innovative and synergetic thinking between scholars across different locations. The primary objective is to pave the way for an inclusive “Global Peace and Conflict Studies.”
