ABSTRACT
This chapter serves to introduce the framework, themes, and content of individual chapters in the edited volume Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict. The volume is situated in the relevant literature on the geography of conflict and peace, focusing on the period from the close of the Cold War, through changing emphases spurred by the War on Terror, and more recent theoretical developments driven by feminist geopolitical approaches and the context of global climate change. The central logic of the book is that war and peace are intertwined and the product of multiple forms of agency that are expressed in unique place-specific settings in time frames that range from the immediate to the longue durée. The approach rejects a binary between war and peace. Rather, it identifies the combination of processes of conflict and peacebuilding in any historical-geographical context. Key themes in the book are identified: agency; the mutual construction of politics and space; multiple scales; multiple geographies; the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning; resistance/militarism. The themes are located within a multi-scalar framework. The chapter concludes by briefly describing the key argument and contribution of the separate essays in the volume.
