Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from South Asia by Shibashis ...

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Peace and Conflict StudiesPerspectives from South Asia\nAuthor(s): Anindya Jyoti Majumdar, Shibashis Chatterjee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9780367538309, 978-0367538309\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. \n\nAs concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the South Asian theatre including class, s.