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Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene

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Editors:
  1. Úrsula Oswald Spring

    1. Centre for Regional Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  2. Hans Günter Brauch

    1. Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), Mosbach, Germany

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  • Peer-reviewed texts prepared for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India
  • Two pioneers of global peace research: Johan Galtung from Norway wote a Foreword and Betty Reardon from the United States a Preface
  • Innovative case studies by peace researchers on decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human history
  • New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi’s non-violence policy
  • Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India; conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico; Roma in Hungary; the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in Nepal

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 30)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Decolonising Peace in the Anthropocene: Introduction Towards an Alternative Understanding of Peace and Security

    • Úrsula Oswald Spring
    Pages 1-47

  4. Conflicts, Peace, Gender, Families and Vulnerable People

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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    2. Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation to Urban Climate Change Impacts in the Global South from a Gender Perspective

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 307-332

    3. Conflicts in Kenya: Drivers of Conflicts and Assessing Mitigation Measures

      • Charles Ndalu Wasike
      Pages 333-349

    4. Human Rights and Sexual Abuse of the Girl-Child in Nigeria: Implications for Development

      • Janet Monisola Oluwaleye
      Pages 351-366

    5. The Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria’s Open Space: Taming the Tide

      • Aminu Bakari Buba
      Pages 367-383

    6. Climate Rituals: Cultural Response for Climate Change Adaptations in Africa

      • Mokua Ombati
      Pages 385-410

    7. Ethnically-Charged Wartime Sexual Violence: The Agony of the South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

      • Robert Senath Esuruku
      Pages 411-432

    8. Traditional Conflict and Peacemaking Processes: The Case of Kurdish Tribes in Mardin, Turkey

      • Safiye Ateş Burç
      Pages 433-455

    9. Family Shame and Eloping Couples: A Hindustani Warp in Time. Steps in Progress Towards Non-violence

      • David Evans
      Pages 457-480

    10. We Are not Victims: The Roma, An Outdoor Art Gallery and the Same Old Story – Critical Thinking in Communication for Development

      • Maria Subert
      Pages 481-500

  5. Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Peacemaking and Transitional Justice in the Anthropocene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 501-501
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    2. A Discourse on the Norms and Ideologies of Peacekeeping

      • Jude Cocodia
      Pages 503-519
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About this book

In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and IV) peace and education. Part I deals with peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, Gandhi’s non-violent policy and disobedient peace. Part II discusses urban climate change, climate rituals, conflicts in Kenya, the sexual abuse of girls, farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria, wartime sexual violence facing refugees, the traditional conflict and peacemakingprocess of Kurdish tribes, Hindustani family shame, and communication with Roma. Part III analyses norms of peacekeeping, violent non-state actors in Brazil, the art of peace in Mexico, grass-roots post-conflict peacebuilding in Sulawesi, hydrodiplomacyin the Indus River Basin, the Rohingya refugee crisis, and transitional justice. Part IV assesses SDGs and peace in India, peace education in Nepal, and infrastructure-based development and peace in West Papua.


• Peer-reviewed texts prepared for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India.
• Contributions from two pioneers of global peace research:a foreword by Johan Galtung from Norway and a preface by Betty Reardon from the United States.
• Innovative case studies by peace researchers on decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human history.
• New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi’s non-violence policy.
• Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India; conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Braziland Mexico; Roma in Hungary;the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in Nepal.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Regional Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring

  • Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), Mosbach, Germany

    Hans Günter Brauch

About the editors

​Ursula Oswald Spring, National Autonomous, University of Mexico(UNAM), Mexico.
Hans Günter Brauch, Peace Research & European Security Studies.Mosbach, Germany.

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