OxPeace Conference 2024: New Actors and the Changing Field of Peace-making and Peace-building

The liberal peace is gone and is not coming back. This presentation attempts to sketch some of the new (or perhaps more prominent) actors and approaches that are taking its place. Some developments are exciting and encouraging. But others pose challenges to established practices and notions of peace How far are we prepared to see concepts of peace stretched before they are no longer peace? The Order versus Justice trade-off common to many attempts to reach peace seems to be tilting distinctly towards order. All of this has implications for how we study peace and the meaning of Peace Studies.