Review "Decolonial peace, insubordinate peace, concepts, temporalities and epistemologies"

Abstract

The book "Decolonial Peace, Insubordinate Peace, Concepts, Temporalities and Epistemologies", published under the editorial seal of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, is structured around three main axes. The first criticizes liberal peace and proposes expanding the epistemological and methodological analysis to local, ethnic, marginalized knowledge of the global South. The second, supported by Latin American decolonial theories and applied action research, invites us to transcend imported models of thought and action. The third collects the literature that addresses peace as a process in continuous adjustment and resignification, a daily and small-scale peace. The work is, therefore, at the forefront of the critical literature of Peace Studies and invites readers to transcend the analysis of peace towards for peace, seeking to contribute to the peaceful transformation of conflicts.