While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and scholars regularly describe th

This volume calls for an empirical extension of the “local turn” within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, c

A fundamental challenge plagues the global peacebuilding community. How can technocratic approaches to peacebuilding that are rooted in short-term, project-base

The guiding principle of peacemaking and peacebuilding over the past quarter century has been "liberal peace": the promotion of democracy, capitalism, law, and

Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and