ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on local actor peacebuilding where she explores the interactions and intersectionalities of organically grown peacebuilding in international intervention efforts. It examines how grassroots agencies in Asia have developed locally owned models of peacebuilding since the early 1990s. The book outlines the contributions of feminist vulnerability, theorizing through an examination of the gendered politics of migration and the gendered precarity experienced by undocumented migrants as they cross borders. It explores racialized peacebuilding as an obstacle to change through the dynamics of white supremacy at play in the transnational border justice movement. The book explains approaches to peacebuilding in settings where parties to conflict attribute religious value to contested spaces and sites. It highlights the increasingly key roles that young people have as stakeholders in peace and security efforts.
