Short description:

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.

Long description:

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.

Comprising 28 chapters that present key insights on peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, the volume has implications for teaching and training, as well as for practice and policy. The handbook is divided into four thematic parts. Part 1 focuses on critical dimensions of ethnic conflicts, including root causes, gender, external involvements, emancipatory peacebuilding, hatred as a public health issue, environmental issues, American nationalism, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2 focuses on peacebuilders? roles, including Indigenous peacemaking, nonviolent accompaniment, peace leadership in the military, interreligious peacebuilders, local women, and young people. Part 3 addresses the past and shaping of the future, including a discussion of public memory, heritage rights and monuments, refugees, trauma and memory, aggregated trauma in the African-American community, exhumations after genocide, and a healing-centered approach to conflict. Part 4 presents case studies on Sri Lanka?s postwar reconciliation process, peacebuilding in Mindanao, the transformative peace negotiation in Aceh and Bougainville, external economic aid for peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, Indigenous and local peacemaking, and a continuum of peacebuilding focal points. The handbook offers perspectives on the breadth and significance of peacebuilding work in ethnic conflicts throughout the world.

This volume will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, ethnic conflict, security studies, and international relations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction  Introduction: Peacebuilding and ethnic conflict  Part 1: Key Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts  1. The roots of ethnopolitical conflict  2. How gender is implicated in ethnopolitical conflict  3. Complex effects of external involvements in ethnopolitical violence  4. Re-examining peacebuilding priorities: Liberal peace and the emancipatory critique  5. Hatred is a contagious disease and public health issue in ethnopolitical conflicts  6. The environment and peacebuilding in ethnic conflict  7. Deconstructing the relapse of American nationalism  8. How does the COVID-19 pandemic influence peacebuilding, diversity management, the handling of ethnic conflict, and ethnic minorities?  Part 2: Peacebuilders in Ethnic Conflicts  9. Indigenous peacemaking and restorative justice  10. Interactive conflict resolution: Addressing the essence of ethnopolitical conflict and peacebuilding  11. Core dynamics of nonviolent accompaniment and unarmed civilian protection  12. Peace leadership, security, and the role of the military in ethnopolitical conflict  13. Interreligious peacebuilding: An emerging pathway for sustainable peace  14. The laughter that knows the darkness: The Mamas? resistance to annihilative violence in West Papua  15. The role of youth in ethnopolitical conflicts  Part 3: Addressing the Past and Shaping the Future  16. On peacebuilding and public memory: Iconoclasm, dialogue, and race   17. When the past is always present: Heritage rights, monuments, and cultural divides  18. Voices of their own: Refugees missing home and building a future  19. Trauma, recovery, and memory  20. A season of reckoning for the children: Exploring the realities of aggregated trauma in the African American community  21. Peace after genocide: Exhumations, expectataions, and peacebuilding efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina  22. A healing-centered peacebuilding approach  Part 4: Approaches and Cases  23. Sri Lanka?s post-war reconciliation: Reconciling the local and international  24. Emancipatory peacebuilding and conflict transformation: Mindanao as a case study  25. Transformative peace negotiation  26. External aid and peacebuilding  27. Bringing the Indigenous into mainstream peacemaking and peacebuilding in farmer-herder conflicts: Some critical reflections  28. Focal points in ethnic conflict: A peacebuilding continuum.  Conclusions  Critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approaches to analyze and transform ethnic conflict: Lessons learned (in addressing the legacy of the past in order to shape the future)