Towards Pluriversal Peace: Reimagining the Future of Peace and Conflict Studies

This project reimagines Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) in Australia by developing a multidisciplinary, decolonial framework for peace research and teaching. Addressing the field’s Eurocentric and disciplinary limitations, the project explores how PACS has failed to engage meaningfully with settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignty, critical Global South knowledge perspectives. Through two in-person workshops in Melbourne and Canberra, the team will collaborate with local scholars to co-develop critical approaches to peacebuilding rooted in epistemic plurality and anti-harm methodologies. Outputs include a peer-reviewed article and an open-access entry to the virtual encyclopedia of the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict, contributing to both academic scholarship and community-engaged knowledge production.

Project team

  • Dr Tania Miletic, Co-Director, Initiative for Peacebuilding Senior Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
  • Dr Anouk Ride, Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
  • Dr Mujib Abid, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne