Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, by Nick Megoran,Fiona McConnell,Philippa Williams

By Nick Megoran,Fiona McConnell,Philippa Williams

From handshakes at the White residence garden to Picasso’s iconic dove of peace, the photographs and stereotypes of peace are strong, common and simply recognizable. but if we attempt to supply a concise definition of peace it's altogether a extra complex workout. not just is peace an emotive and value-laden idea, it's also summary, ambiguous and seemingly
inextricably tied to its antithesis: conflict. And it really is warfare and violence which were so compellingly studied inside serious geography in recent times. This quantity bargains an try and redress that stability, and to imagine extra expansively and significantly approximately what peace skill and what geographies of peace may well entail.

The editors commence with an exam of severe ways to peace in different disciplines and a invaluable family tree of peace reviews inside geography. The ebook is then divided into 3 sections. the outlet part examines how the belief of peace can be variously developed and interpreted in line with diversified websites and scales. The chapters within the second
section discover a remarkably wide selection of innovations of peacemaking. This widens the dialogue from the archetypical photograph of top-down, diplomatic state-led projects to imperial boundary making practices, grassroots cultural identification statement, boycotts, self-immolation, ex-paramilitary neighborhood activism, and ‘protective accompaniment’. The final
section shifts the dimensions and concentration to daily own family and quite a number practices round the concept
of coexistence. of their concluding bankruptcy the editors spell out a number of the key questions that they suspect a geography of peace needs to deal with: What spatial elements have facilitated the luck or caused the failure of a few peace pursuits or diplomatic negotiations? Why are a few ideologies effective of violence in a few areas yet co-operation in others? How have a few groups been higher capable of take care of spiritual, racial, cultural and sophistication clash than others? How have inventive ways to sharing sovereignty mitigated or remodeled territorial disputes that after appeared intractable?

Geographies of Peace is the 1st ebook thoroughly dedicated to exploring the geography of peace. Drawing on either fresh advances in social and political conception and unique empirical examine protecting 4 continents, it makes an important intervention into present debates approximately peace and violence.

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