About this journal

Peacebuilding is a peer-reviewed international, comparative, multidisciplinary journal open to articles on making peace in contemporary and historical cases of conflict-affected societies. It aims to provide in-depth analyses of the ideologies, philosophies, interests, and policies that underpin programmes and initiatives designed to build peace, security, and order, and to connect with debates being held by policymakers, civil society, scholars and students. Our interest spans, but is not confined to, critical interrogations of international and local, formal and informal, peace processes, peacebuilding, mediation, peacekeeping and peace-enforcement, development, and statebuilding. We seek to support the examination of these concepts and policies against the backdrop of interdisciplinary theorising connected to realist, liberal, constructivist, critical, post-structural, post-colonial, and non-western theories, as well as encouraging an engagement with emerging theories of global justice, digital international relations, and new materialism, among others.

Peacebuilding is open to quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and particularly welcomes submissions that are prepared to challenge orthodox views and add new empirical insights into scholarly debates. For example, we are interested in submissions from a post-colonial perspective of peace and order, or utilising ethnographic methodologies able to highlight subaltern voices, positionalities, and local claims in the context of hybridity and related power-relations. Contributions from the ‘subjects’ of peace processes, peacebuilding, etc., as well as theoretical and methodological innovations (for example creative, critical and ethnographic work, whether on or in conflict-affected societies, or on donors and international actors) are particularly welcome.

The editors are interested in how dominant ‘peace’ paradigms produce political subjectivity, and how this is responded to by their recipients. Rethinking approaches to peace is particularly crucial if this area of study is to move beyond its current liberal or neoliberal position. Peacebuilding periodically includes reports and field notes on the work of major donors and peacebuilding organisations. We publish collective discussion pieces that decentre and challenge dominant knowledge on peace and conflict studies, and promote new, critical alternatives on peacebuilding.

Submissions are initially screened by the editorial team and then sent for double anonymized peer review to at least two reviewers.

Editors:
Oliver P. Richmond - University of Manchester, UK
Roger Mac Ginty - School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK

Deputy Editor:
Bahar Baser - Durham University, UK

Associate Editors:
Stefanie Kappler - Durham University, UK
Sandra Pogodda - University of Manchester, UK
Ignasi Torrent - University of Hertfordshire, UK

Review Essays Editor:
Shrishti Rana - University of Manchester, UK

Assistant Editor:
Dahlia Simangan - Hiroshima University, Japan

Editorial Board:
Severine Autesserre - Columbia University, USA
Roberto Belloni - University of Trento, Italy
Pinar Bilgin - Bilkent University, Turkey
Annika Björkdahl - Lund University, Sweden
Roland Bleiker - University of Queensland, Australia
Volker Beoge - University of Queensland, Australia
Anne Brown - RMIT University, Australia
Richard Caplan - University of Oxford, UK
Christine Cheng - Kings College London, UK
Kevin Clements - University of Otago, New Zealand
Cedric de Coning - Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway
Tim Donais - Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Mark Duffield - University of Bristol, UK
Vivienne Jabri - Kings College London, UK
Kai Michael Kenkel - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Denisa Kostovicova - London School of Economics, UK
Jana Krause - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gearoid Millar - University of Aberdeen, UK
Sarah Nouwen - University of Cambridge, UK
Thania Paffenholz - Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
Roland Paris - University of Ottawa, Canada
Sorpong Peou - Ryerson University, Canada
Laura Shepherd - University of Sydney, Australia
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh - Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), France
Ionnis Tellidis - Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Yuji Uesugi - Waseda University, Japan
Gëzim Visoka - Dublin City University, Ireland
Joanne Wallis - Australian National University, Australia
Alison Watson - University of St Andrews, UK
Susan Woodward - City University of New York, USA

Updated 13-03-2024