Introduction: Peace and conflict studies in the 21st Century: Theory, substance, and practice Sean Byrne, Tom Matyok & Imani Michelle Scott
Part I: Peace and Conflict Studies Praxis (Theory and Practice)
1. Conflict transformation HoWon Jeong
2. Connecting theory and praxis in the peace and conflict studies field Louis Kriesberg
3. Theory-building in PACS: The storytelling methodology Jessica Senehi
4. The peacebuilding spaces of local actors Wendy Kroeker
5. Peace studies and conflict resolution Patrick G. Coy, Landon E. Hancock, and Anuj Gurung
Part II: Structure-Agency, Social Justice, Nonviolence, and Relationship Building
6. Assessing peace and conflict studies theory and practice in reconciling agency and structural sources of severe sociopolitical polarization Fred Pearson and Marie Olson Lounsbery
7. Peace education and youth: Scholarship of engagement study infusing mentorship in the arts Alexia Georgakopoulos, Charles Goesel, and Kristie Jo Redfering
8. Unproductive challenges that impede international environmental conflict intervention efforts Brian Polkinghorn and Brittany Foutz
9. Local peacebuilders' ownership development in southeast Asia. SungYong Lee
10. Foreign peacebuilding intervention and emancipatory local agency for social justice Sean Byrne and Chuck Thiessen
Part III: Gender, Masculinity and Sexuality
11. Sex trafficking and peace: How patriarchy normalizes direct and structural violence Franke Wilmer
12. A holistic approach to addressing gender, violence, health, and peace Izzeldin Abuelaish and Paula Godoy-Ruiz
13. Peace and quiet or not-so-quiet: Gender, rurality and women's grassroots peacebuilding Robin Neustaeter
14. Protesting vulnerability and vulnerability as protest: Gender, migration, and strategies of resistance Lisa McClean
15. Missing discourses: Recognizing disability and LGBTQ+ communities in conflict transformation Rebecca Shea-Irvine and Nancy Hansen
Part IV: Partnership and Allies in Racial, Ethinic, and Religious Peacebuilding
16. Nonviolent social movements: Advancing justice on paths to peace Jodi Dueck-Read
17. Engaging students in humanitarian action using enduring questions: A Jesuit approach Janie Leatherman and Kathryn Nantz
18. Post traumatic stress disorder and cognitive imperialism: The lost roles of male indigenous protectors and providers, and their effects on family Brian Rice
19. Religion and peaceful relations: Negotiating the sacred Nathan Funk and Yelena Gyulkhandanyan
20. Conflict intervention and reflexive evaluation Jay Rothman
Part V: Culture and Identity
21. Interactive conflict resolution, identity and culture Ronald J. Fisher
22. Identity matters: Social identity and social change Celia Cook Huffman
23. A paradigm upgrade introducing peaceology as the cultural and identity building blocks of a new peaceful world industry, beginning in Chicago Peter St. Jean
24. Peacebuilding in response to migration: From securitization to peace in the context of the crisis for migrants in Europe Gillian Wylie
25. Commissioning educators: The United Nations call to advance global peace through teaching intercultural communication Imani Michelle Scott
Part VI: Critical and Emancipatory Peacebuilding
26. Rethinking international peacebuilding Necla Tschirgi
27. Youth, peace and security: Global trends and a Colombian case study Lesley Pruitt
28. Joint civil-military interaction: A unity-of-aim method for peacebuilding Thomas Matyok and Sven Stauder
29. The paradox of complexity in peace and conflict studies: Indigenous culture, identity, and peacebuilding Paul Cormier
30. Innovations: Critical peace education and yogic peace education Katerina Standish
Part VII: International Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
31. Conflict metanarratives and peacebuilding Stephen Ryan
32. Engaging the root causes of past violence in Ireland: Ethical education for liberation Revd. Johnston McMaster and Cathy Higgins
33. Buying time in a crisis: The UN secretary general and multiplex mediation in a multipolar nuclear world Thomas E. Boudreau, and Anthony Yost
34. Human security and peacebuilding: Critical tools for operationalizing human rights in the post-cold war world Ken Christie and Robert Hanlon
35. Transforming ethnic conflict: Building peace and diversity management in divided societies Mitja Zagar
PART VIII: Global Responses to Conflict
36. And what about the African Americans? Peace and conflict studies neglect of the intractable conflict related to systemic racism in the United States Imani Michelle Scott
37. Peacebuilding techniques or praxis Stephanie Stobbe
38. Global responses to armed conflict: The menacing multidimensionality of peacebuilding under conditions of state fragility Fletcher D. Cox
39. Major processes and structures of conflict management and global governance Paul Diehl, Michael Greig and Andrew Owsiak
40. Robust peacekeeping: The most appropriate operational paradigm to address contemporary UN peacekeeping and civilian protection challenges Kofi Nsia-Pepra
41. New cloud in global security: When peace means global complex operations Yvan Yenda Ilunga
Conclusions
Conclusion: Critical PACS emancipated? Sean Byrne, Thomas Matyok, Imani Michelle Scott, and Jessica Senehi