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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