A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole
Peace and conflict scholarship cannot afford to ignore the challenges posed by ongoing racial oppression. The dominance of racially silent research in the United States and Europe has significant implications for how peace is examined and framed and thus shapes the implementation of peace processes...
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| Published in: | Peace and conflict |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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04-04-2024
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| Summary: | Peace and conflict scholarship cannot afford to ignore the challenges posed by ongoing racial oppression. The dominance of racially silent research in the United States and Europe has significant implications for how peace is examined and framed and thus shapes the implementation of peace processes and policies. Examining the five leading journals in peace and conflict studies and many institutional reports, we find significant omissions of race and racism scholarship and Black peace activists and scholars who presciently connected issues of conflict and peace with racism, antiracism, and social and racial justice. To help address these omissions, we demonstrate the implications of examining race and racism from a critical sociological perspective and how it can address distortions in peace and conflict studies and contribute to significant epistemological and practical shifts in the field. We show how the inclusion of these concepts and theories of race and racism challenges race-neutral scholarship’s preponderance in the field and upends many of its core assumptions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract) |
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| ISSN: | 1078-1919 1532-7949 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pac0000739 |