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.

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.

Preface
Lawrence S. Wittner

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Search for Global Peace: Concepts and Currents in Twenty-First Century Peace History Scholarship
Christian Philip Peterson, Charles F. Howlett, Deborah D. Buffton, and David L Hostetter

Part 1. TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PEACE, ANCIENT TIME TO 1500 CE

Chapter 2. Ancient Egyptian Peace Traditions
Susanne Bickel

Chapter 3. Peace in Ancient Greece
Jennifer T. Roberts

Chapter 4. Ancient Rome and the Quest for Peace
Richard D. Weigel

Chapter 5. Discourses and Debates on Peacemaking in Chinese History
Kam-por Yu

Chapter 6. The Idea of Peace during the European “Middle Ages”
Ben Lowe

Part II. PEACE IN AN AGE OF EMPIRES, 1500 TO 1914 CE

Chapter 7. The Search for Peace in Europe: 1500-1914
Renee A. Bricker and Michael Proulx

Chapter 8. African Peace Traditions and Resistance to Colonial Rule
Jo Tague

Chapter 9. Modern East Asia and Peace: Pacification and Harmony in Imperialist Times
Gerry Iguchi

Chapter 10. The Idea of Peace in North America from Precontact to 1780
Daniel Barr

Chapter 11. US Efforts to Promote Peace in the Nineteenth Century
Margot Minardi

Chapter 12. Latin America and the Idea of Peace
Juan Pablo Scarfi

Part III. FROM SARAJEVO TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE PURSUIT OF PEACE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL CONFLICT

Chapter 13. Defining Struggles: Peace Activism in the United States, 1914 to 2023
Charles F. Howlett and David Hostetter

Chapter 14. European Peace Movements Since 1914
Michael Clinton

Chapter 15. The Inter-American Quest for Peace and Justice
Roger Peace

Chapter 16. Pacification in Asia since the End of the Cold War
David Brenner

Chapter 17. Muslim Nonviolent Civil Resistance in Modern World History
Juan Cole

Chapter 18. The Ongoing Quest for Marginal Peace in the Arab World
Aisha Mershani

Chapter 19. India and Pakistan: An Elusive Peace
Šumit Ganguly

Part IV. BUILDERS OF PEACE, ADVOCATES OF CHANGE: EXEMPLARY INDIVIDUALS IN THE HISTORY OF PEACEMAKING

Chapter 20. Erasmus and the “Invention of Peace”
Peter van den Dungen

Chapter 21. Elihu Burritt: America's Nineteenth Century International Peacemaker
Charles F. Howlett

Chapter 22. Bertha von Suttner: The Making of a Peace Activist
Deborah Buffton

Chapter 23. Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan
Robert Shaffer

Chapter 24. Nobel Peace Laureates Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch: Claiming Women's Political Voice and Opposing Nationalism
Judy D. Whipps

Chapter 25. Mohandas Gandhi
Gail Presbey

Chapter 26. “Pilots of Our Struggle”: Albert Luthuli and the Ending of Apartheid
David Hostetter

Chapter 27. Against War: Olof Joachim Palme's Legacy of Peace
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Chapter 28. Sérgio Vieira de Mello: Lessons on Negotiating with the Devil
Leon Hartwell

Part V. ESSENTIAL ISSUES RELATED TO PEACE HISTORY

Chapter 29. Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict
Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos Syropoulos

Chapter 30. International Law, International Institutions, and the Pursuit of Peace
John Gittings

Chapter 31. International Dimensions of Anti-Nuclear Activism
Christian Philip Peterson, Kyle Harvey, and William M. Knoblauch

Chapter 32. The Literature of Peace: A War Refugee's "Orphaned Voice" in The Sympathizer
Pamela J. Rader

Chapter 33. Gender, Sexuality, and Peace
Kathleen Kennedy

Chapter 34. Religious Peacebuilding since World War II
Denis Dragovic

Chapter 35. Addressing Inequality in Peace Studies: How the Peace-Development Nexus is Driving a Needed Transformative Turn
Erin McCandless and Mary Hope Schwoebel

Chapter 36. Conscientious Objection: A Brief International History
Christian Philip Peterson, Chris Lombardi, and William M. Knoblauch

Chapter 37. Socialism, Internationalism, and Peace, 1869-1919
Nigel Young

Part VI. FUTURE OF PEACE HISTORY

Chapter 38. Is there a Place for the History of Violence in the History of Peace?
John Smolenski

Chapter 39. The Future of Peace History
Michael Goode

Chapter 40. Exploring Archives, Examining Resources, and Developing Strategies for Research in Peace History
Wendy E. Chmielewski

Postscript
Suggested Readings on Peace History and Peacemaking
Index