ABSTRACT
Western academics and culture perpetuate the idea of violence and war being tied to human nature while often overlooking alternative, often more holistic, understandings of the human potential for peace. There are views that emphasise the human capacity to engage in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Unlike mainstream peace scholarship, feminist scholarship often respects and is attentive to alternative cosmologies, ontologies and epistemologies, which differ from the traditional hegemonic Western ways, to understand violence and peacebuilding. In this chapter, we discuss ways of founding peacebuilding on approaches that value relational ways of being in the world.
