The (im)possibilities of peace in a violent world

Book chapters

Carter Hallward, Maia & Charity Butcher (2019). Key theories of international conflict management. In Butcher, Charity & Maia Carter Hallward (eds). Understanding International Conflict Management. London: Routledge, pp. 11-23.

Chenoweth, Erica (2021). Civil resistance: What anyone needs to know. Oxford University Press. Chapter 1, “Civil resistance: A brief introduction”, pp. 1-25.

Hellmüller, Sara (2022). Mediation. In Richmond, Oliver P & Gözim Visoka (eds.) (2022): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave McMillan, pp. 804-813.

King, Anthony (2025). AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1, “Robot wars”, pp. 1-22.

Meyer, David S. & Sidney Tarrow (2019). War, Peace, and Social Movements in Snow, David A, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi & Holly J. McCammon (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 651-665.

Paffenholtz, Thania (2019). Civil society and conflict management. In Butcher, Charity & Maia Carter Hallward. Understanding International Conflict Management. London: Routledge, pp. 129-143.

Ramsbotham, Oliver, Tom Woodhouse & Hugh Miall (2024). Contemporary Conflict Resolution, 5th edition. Polity Press. Chapter 1, “Conflict resolution: History, concepts and models”.

Wilson, Maureen & Edwin N. Njonguo (2019). Transitional justice. In Butcher, Charity & Maia Carter Hallward. Understanding International Conflict Management. London: Routledge, pp. 98-111.

Articles

Bramsen, Isabel & Isak Svensson (2024). Peace Talks in the Russia-Ukraine War: When, Who, and How? International Negotiation, 30(1), pp. 97-122. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718069-bja10106

Cockburn, Cynthia (2013). War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues. Gender & Development 21(3), pp. 433-452.

Galtung, Johan (1969). Violence, peace and peace research. Journal of Peace Research 6(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/002234336900600301 

Höglund, Kristine & Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs (2010): Beyond the absence of war: the diversity of peace in post-settlement societies, in Review of International Studies, 36(2), pp. 367-390.

Mannergren Selimovic, Johanna (2013): Making peace, making memory: peacebuilding and politics of remembrance at memorials of mass atrocities, in Peacebuilding, 1(3), pp. 334-348.

Pugh, Michael (2004) Peacekeeping and Critical Theory. International Peacekeeping, 11(1), pp.39–58. DOI:10.1080/1353331042000228445

Richmond, Oliver P., & Sandra Pogodda (2025). Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment. Global
Studies Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae094

Shawn Davies, Therése Pettersson, Magnus Öberg (2026). Organized violence 1989–2025, and violent political protests, Journal of Peace Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjag046

Shepherd, Laura J. (2006). Veiled references: Constructions of gender in the Bush administration discourse on the attacks on Afghanistan post-9/11. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 8(1), 19–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616740500415425

Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi & Isak Svensson (2025). Triangulating Peace: How Adversaries Build Sustainable Peace through Negotiated Settlements. Negotiation Journal 41, pp. 99-127. https://doi.org/10.1162/ngtn_a_00023

Other

Orjuela, Camilla (2026). Conflict analysis. Unpublished teaching material.

Peter, Mateja (2025). Mediation in 2024: First Insights from the MEND Database. The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, https://era.ed.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/af113601-be8f-4bd4-9543-a9d12eeb1ec0/content

Richmond, Oliver P & Gözim Visoka (eds.) (2022). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave McMillan. [To be used as a reference work]