The idea of studying peace - over studying war, genocide and
political violence (hereafter violent conflict) and then inferring
about peace - has gained considerable traction in the past few
years after languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but
how should it be studied? The Peace Continuum offers a parallax
view of how we think about peace and the complexities that surround
the concept (i.e., the book explores the topic from different
positions at the same time). Toward this end, we review existing
literature and provide insights into how peace should be
conceptualized - particularly as something more interesting than
the absence of conflict. We provide an approach that can help
scholars overcome what we see as the initial shock that comes with
unpacking the 'zero' in the war-peace model of conflict studies.
Additionally, we provide a framework for understanding how peace
and conflict have/have not been related to one another in the
literature. To reveal how the Peace Continuum could be applied, we
put forward three alternative ways that peace could be studied.
With this approach, the book is less trying to control the emerging
peace research agenda than it is trying to assist in/encourage
thinking about the topic that we all have some opinion on but that
has yet to be measured and analyzed in a way comparable to
political conflict and violence. Indeed, we attempt to help
facilitate a veritable explosion of approaches and efforts to study
peace.
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