Introduction: Advancing Peace and Conflict Studies with the Global South: Building Bridges and Creating Solidarities (Solveig Richter and Siddharth Tripathi)

Part I: The Global South(s) in Peace and Conflict Studies: Tracing the Field
Chapter 1: The Global South(s) and Peace and Conflict Studies: Asymmetries of Power, Definitions, and Dilemmas (Siddharth Tripathi and Edward Silvestre Kaweesi)
Chapter 2: Looking beyond Peace and Conflict Studies: The Global South(s) in other Disciplines (Thorsten Bonacker and Tareq Sydiq)
Chapter 3: The Local Turn and the Global South in Critical Peacebuilding Studies (Jonas Wolff)
Chapter 4: Taking Global South Seriously: Rebuilding the Metatheory of Peace and Conflict Studies (Navnita Chadha Behera)

Part II: Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Methodologies from the Global South(s)
Chapter 5: Alternativity and Pluriversality in Onto-Epistemological Conceptions of Peace and Conflict: Between Ideas and Realities (Michelle Small and Jacqueline De-Matos Ala)
Chapter 6: Transformative Research Methodologies from the Global South: Participatory Action Research in Colombia (Blanca Azucena Galeano Cardona, Beatriz E. Arias López, and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara)
Chapter 7: Positionality and Ethical Dilemmas as Seen from the South: Fieldwork in a Kenyan Securitized Milieu (Hawa Noor)
Chapter 8: Interrogating the Global North and its Racialized 'Domestic': A North-South Solidarity Agenda (Bretton J. McEvoy and Myrna E. Morales)

Part III: Reflections on Conflict
Chapter 9: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Conflict and Forced Migration in Africa (Rose Jaji and Ulrike Krause)
Chapter 10: The Fault-Lines of Conflict in the Study of Migration (Luicy Pedroza)
Chapter 11: Global Resource Boom and Conflicts: Actors, Strategies, and Potentials for Transformation (Bettina Engels and Kristina Dietz)
Chapter 12: Invisibilized and Hypervisibilized: LGBTIQ+, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Henri Myrttinen)
Chapter 13: The Mediatization of Conflict: Critical Reflections on Center–Periphery Constructions in the Media (Richard Stupart and Husseina Ahmed)

Part IV: Reflections on Violence
Chapter 14: The Politics of Naming. Epistemology and the Study of “Armed Non-state Actors” in the “Middle East” (Hanna Pfeifer)
Chapter 15: Mobilizing Grievances: Post-Colonial Legacies of Terrorism in Africa (Hawa Noor and Steve Wakhu Khaemba)
Chapter 16: War Economies: Common Traits and Implications for Lasting Peace (Sabine Kurtenbach and Angelika Rettberg)
Chapter 17: Civil–Military Relations and Urban Violence in Megacities: The Case of Brazil (Lucas P. Rezende and Rafael A. Duarte Villa)

Part V: Reflections on Peace
Chapter 18: Liberal Peacebuilding in the Global South: Crisis, Continuity, and Non-Western (African) Agency (Babatunde F. Obamamoye and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert)
Chapter 19: Challenging Peacebuilding from a Postcolonial Perspective (Kristine Andra Avram, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, and Alexandra Engelsdorfer)
Chapter 20: Everyday Peace: Local Peace Beyond the State (Birte Vogel and Dylan O'Driscoll)
Chapter 21: Traditional Peacebuilding: A Closer Look at Shared Characteristics (Jalale Getachew Birru)
Chapter 22: Guiding Environmental Peace Building from the Peace Ecology Perspective: Insights from Colombian Post-accord Context (Pablo Andrés Ramos and Isabella Romero Ángel)

Part VI: Reflections on Justice
Chapter 23: From Human Rights to Human Security (Steve Wakhu Khaemba)
Chapter 24: Postcolonial States, Nation-building, and Indigenous Rights (Farooq Yousaf and Japhace Poncian)
Chapter 25: Everyday Justice: Local Peace Beyond the State and Transitional Justice (Ruth Murambadoro and Clever Chikwanda)
Chapter 26: Conflict and Social Justice: Perspectives from the Global South (Achim Kemmerling and Sushobhan Parida)

Part VII: Reimagining Peace and Conflict Studies: Possibilities and Pathways
Chapter 27: Past the Epistemic Tensions to Imagine Global Peace and Conflict: The Fourth Way of Multiple Modernities (Edward Silvestre Kaweesi)
Chapter 28: From Decentering to (Re)centering in Peace and Conflict Studies: Contestations, Resignification, and Collaborations (Viviana Garcia Pinzón, Fabricio Rodríguez, and Siddharth Tripathi)

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