This book addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence and peace and development. Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global development.

1. Introduction Conflict, Peace, Security and Development: Theories and Methodologies Dubavka Zarkov and Helen Hintjens Part 1: The State of the Fields 2. Peace, Conflict and Violence Johan Galtung 3. Humanitarian Assistance and New Humanitarianism: Some Old Questions Tim Jacoby 4. The Political Sociology of Statebuilding: Looking Beyond Weber Nicolas Lemay-Hébert Part 2 Economies for War and Peace 5. Conflict, Growth and (Under)Development Syed Mansoob Murshed 6. Off-Shore Oil in Ghana: Potentials for Conflict and Development David Naab Aratuo 7. Spaces of Memory and Intervention: Researching Post-Conflict Reconstruction in El Salado, Colombia Juliana Villarreal Part 3 Identity Politics of Conflicts 8. Identity Politics in Wars: Theorizing, Policy and Interventions Dubravka Zarkov 9. "As if there were two Rwandas": polarized research agendas in post-genocide Rwanda Helen Hintjens 10. Crafting Symbolic Geographies in Modern Turkey: Kurdish Assimilation and the Politics of (Re)Naming Beril Cakir 11. Law as an Instrument of Justice? Victim Reparations at the International Criminal Court Clara Garcia Orozco and Helen Hintjens Part 4 Methods and Methodologies 12. Sri Lanka's Civil War: What Kind of Methodologies for Identity Conflict? Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits 13. Mathematical modelling and 'ethnic conflict' in Colombia . The impact of the Unit and the Level of Analysis Fabio Diaz Pabon 14. Comparing Datasets: Understanding Conceptual Differences in Quantitative Conflict Studies Ricardo Real Pedrosa de Sousa 15. Conclusion: Theorizing the Politics of Judgement Jolle Demmers