Building Peace in America

Research links a wide and diverse community of scholars, practitioners, and activists towards the common goal of building peace in the United States and play a key role in helping define (and create) the field of "peacebuilding in the US."

Introduction: Who Builds Peace? Emily Sample

Part 1: Framing our Conversation of Peacebuilding in the United States

Chapter 1: Peacebuilding Begins at Home: A Call to U. S. Peacebuilders, Bridget Moix

Chapter 2: Social Justice as Peacebuilding in Black Churches: Where Do We Go From Here? Beverly Janet Goins

Part 2: Doing Good (?): Dialogue, Difference, and Ethical Practice

Chapter 3: What Can They Be Thinking? Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, Melinda Burrell

Chapter 4: Living Room Conversations: Identity Formation and Democracy, Jessica Shryack, Linda Taylor, Beth Raps, and Joan Blades

Chapter 5: Peacebuilding Programs in the United States: First Do No Harm, Elizabeth Hume

Part 3: Social Spaces and Social Practices of Peacebuilding

Chapter 6: Museum Education and Social Justice in Latinx Communities, Michelle Tovar

Chapter 7: Service for Peace: Working with Students and Youth to Plant the Future, Eddah Mutua

Chapter 8: Environmental In/Justice: Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene, Emily Sample

Part 4: Confronting Direct and Structural Racial Violence: The Paths Forward

Chapter 9: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels and White Protectionism, Danielle Christmas

Chapter 10: Legacy of Slavery: A New Approach to Reparations, Sarah Federman

Chapter 11: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in Maryland: From Narrative Change to Racial Healing, Charles Chavis, Jr.

Chapter 12: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew

Part 5: In the Spirit of Self Reflection: Discussions on Gender and Nation

Chapter 13: Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo, Shelly Clay-Robison, Melinda Burrell, Elizabeth Hume, Deena R. Hurwitz, Emily Sample and Kate E. Temoney

Chapter 14: "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Peacebuilding. . .": The Paradox of Order in the Shadow of Chaos, Patricia A. Maulden