Description
The academic field of Peace Studies is changing rapidly. The first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an expansion of graduate programs in Peace Studies and empirical studies on peacebuilding. As an interdisciplinary field, Peace Studies has grown in the interstices between academic disciplines. However, to date Peace Studies remains under-theorized and the important questions about pedagogical and methodological consequences of the consolidation of the field have not been addressed in a systematic manner. The very question of whether Peace Studies today still is a field of study or is becoming a discipline is looming larger in light of a transforming institutional and political landscape. Debates around decolionality and intersectionality, ownership of research and modes of expression of results are challenging the frequently Cartesian onto-epistemological assumptions of research methodologies. This paper explores the institutional and methodological premises of peace studies in the twenty first century.
