Colin Flint, a geographer by training, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. His research interests include geopolitics and world-systems analysis. He is the author of Introduction to Geopolitics (Routledge, 2022), Geopolitical Constructs (2016), and co-author, with Peter J. Taylor, of Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (Routledge, 7th edition, 2018). He is editor of The Geography of War and Peace (2004) and co-editor (with Scott Kirsch) of Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies (2011). His books have been translated into Spanish, Polish, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and Farsi.

Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at Appalachian State University. She studies ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, international forced migration, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor (with Orhon Myadar) of Making and unmaking refugees: Geopolitics of social ordering and struggle with the global refugee regime (Routledge 2023). She currently is serving as the president of the Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the AAG Honors Committee.

Chapter One: Introduction: Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict

Colin Flint and Kara E. Dempsey

Chapter Two: Geography and War, Geographers and Peace: Expanding Research and Political Agendas

Virginie Mamadouh

Chapter Three: Geographies of Peace

Nerve V. Macaspac and Adam Moore

Chapter Four: Spatializing Peace and Peacebuilding: Where is Knowledge About Peace and Peacebuilding Produced?

Annika Björkdahl

Chapter Five: Navigating the Ambiguous Geographies of War and Peace

James A. Tyner

Chapter Six: Forging Shared Spaces for Building Peace

Kara E. Dempsey

Chapter Seven: The Violence of Development and the Prospects for Peace

Colin Flint

Chapter Eight: Postcolonial Conflict in Southeast Asia: Rethinking the Shatterbelt with Colonial Rupture in Asia's Cold War

Christian Lentz and Scott Kirsch

Chapter Nine: Feminist Geopolitics and Empathetic Encounters with the Unseen: Reconsidering Black Hawk Down 20 Years Later

Orhon Myadar and Tony Colella

Chapter Ten: The Spatialities of Nonviolent Peace Activism in the Midst of War: From Colombia to Ukraine

Sara Koopman

Chapter Eleven: Peacework: Everyday Negative Peace Across South Asian Borderscapes

Md Azmeary Ferdoush

Chapter Twelve: Hybrid Networks: Technology, Geopolitics and Ontology in Digital Warfare

Ian Slesinger

Chapter Thirteen: Geographies of Environmental Peace and Conflict

Shannon O'Lear

Chapter Fourteen: Conflict and Cooperation: The Adverse Effects of Climate Change

Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh

Chapter Fifteen: Placing Peace: The Pedagogies of Positive Peace and Environmental Justice

Mark Ortiz, María Belén Noroña, Lorraine Dowler, and Joshua Inwood