The Oxford Handbook of Peace History

The Oxford Handbook of Peace History offers a comprehensive analysis of peace history from ancient times to the present day. With contributions from an international roster of scholars, the Handbook provides researchers, students, and instructors a timely examination of the global dimensions of peace work. Organized around six major sections -- three chronological and three thematic -- the Handbook explores concepts such as peace activism, internationalism, social justice, and cultures of nonviolence as transformative ideas and policy practices. It also demonstrates how conceptions of peace and approaches to peacemaking have varied and developed since antiquity. By including interdisciplinary perspectives on peace, the Handbook introduces new pathways for understanding war, conflict, peacemaking, and violence. The chapters, along with the volume's comprehensive Introduction, provide useful resources for understanding the development of peace history as a discipline while highlighting the connections between peace history and fields such as peace and conflict studies.

About the Author

Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus of Education, Molloy University. He is a recipient of the Peace History Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and Molloy College Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. His latest book with Seth Kershner and Scott Harding, Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education , published in July 2022. Christian Philip Peterson received his PhD in history from Ohio University and teaches at Ferris State University (MI-USA). Along with winning several teaching awards, he has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (2012). He also served as co-editor for The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (2018). Deborah D. Buffton is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where she taught World, French, and Chinese History as well as courses on Peace and War and on Nonviolent Resistance Movements. She has served previously as President of the Peace History Society and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has published articles on women and war, propaganda, and the ways that peace and war are memorialized. David L. Hostetter is the author of Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics ; co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Documented History ; and has published many academic articles, newspaper commentaries, and encyclopedia entries. He is a graduate of Juniata College where he majored in Peace and Conflict Studies, and he earned his PhD in history from the University of Maryland College Park.