Editor's introduction: Terrorism and peace and conflict studies: investigating the crossroad

Abstract

The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference titled Terrorism and Peace and Conflict Studies: Investigating the Crossroad. The conference was organised by the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at the University of Kent and the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group of the British International Studies Association and was held at the University of Kent from 10 to 11 September 2012. The conference aimed to highlight and explore the empirical, methodological, ontological and epistemological points of interjection of the two fields through the engagement of scholars, postgraduate students, national and international policy and civil society actors. The articles in this issue reflect those aims.

Notes

1. Other forms of political violence suffer from definitional problems such as civil wars (see Sambanis 2004), ethnic conflict (Varshney 2001) or even non-violent forms of protest such as civil disobedience (see Bedau 1961).