Give Peace a Chance: Local Experiences for Global Challenges

This book examines the field of Peace and Conflict Studies with a focus on local experiences that pursue a peaceful political and social
agenda. The editors propose to broaden the debate on Peace Studies, presenting a critical view of the mainstream approaches in the area, and addressing the necessity to open the debate to include the views from the "South".
The book offers an alternative approach to violence based on subjects historicallyexcluded from the ontology of international policy debates, which focus on the war between nation-states. It is based on the understanding that the traditional ways of thinking about violence cannot understand the multiple
forms of social violence that cut across international relations, particularly affecting black and indigenous populations, migrants, and women. The book proposes to think about such violence in a way connected to the intersecting inequalities of gender, race, class, and territory that have hierarchized the
world's populations since colonization and created the conditions for genocides and "epistemicides". The book presents a broader spectrum of global challenges by highlighting the inequalities that sustain a profoundly unequal order even in traditionally perceived peaceful periods. To address such challenges, it is necessary, as the authors of the volume argue, to break down the walls of masculinized, patriarchal, white-centric, and elitist structures that continue to guarantee privileges for a reduced portion of the world's population.

Marcial A. G. Suarez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói – Rio de Janeiro. He is a former research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Tatiana Moura is Senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), where she coordinates the Observatory on Masculinities, coordinates regionally the MenCare Campaign, and several national and international projects on masculinities and gender violence prevention with a relevant impact in the production of contributions to programs and public policies in the European context.
Marília Carolina B. de Souza Pimenta is a researcher at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, at Maxwell School of Syracuse University, researcher/collaborator at NUPRI-USP. Lecturer at the State University of São Paulo-UNESP. She is a member of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) and a member of the International Studies Association.
Marta Fernández is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI-PUC/Rio), where she earned her PhD. She is also the Director of the BRICS Policy Center, a think tank affiliated with IRI-PUC/Rio. Marta served as Director of IRI/PUC-Rio (2016-2020) and President of the Brazilian International Relations Association (2021-2023). Her research focuses on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, race, and gender.