Routledge Handbook of Masculinities, Conflict and Peacebuilding

This handbook engages with and broadens current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding.

Through an expansive range of chapters across a unique array of geographical settings, the volume shatters prevailing assumptions about men’s relationship to conflict and its wake. Situated across scholarship, policy, and practice, the contributions offer new possibilities for a more complex and complete picture of the gendered tapestries of conflict, peace, and the spaces in between. The handbook combines feminist, intersectional, relational, decolonial, and queer perspectives on the conceptualisation of masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. This approach provides us with the tools to go beyond direct, physical, conflict-related violence to examine less visible forms of violence and power as well as other ways in which masculinities interact with conflict and peace. In doing so, the book permits a multi-faceted view of men’s roles, relationships, vulnerabilities, and non-violent agencies in conflict and peacebuilding across scholarship, policy, and practice.

This book will be of much interest to students of gender, masculinities, peace and conflict studies, and international relations.

Chapter 1, 3, 9, 13, and 30 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Chapter 25 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Henri Myrttinen is a visiting research fellow at the University of Bremen, Germany, and an independent consultant on gender, peace, and security.

Chloé Lewis is a Research Fellow of the Minerva Global Security Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and is a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub.

Heleen Touquet is a visiting professor at the department of political sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Philipp Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen.

Farooq Yousaf is an independent researcher based in Australia.

Elizabeth Laruni is the Conflict Sensitivity & Gender Lead of the London-based peacebuilding organisation International Alert.