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The titles of the chapters that have preceded this one, and those that follow, make it very obvious that peace studies flows across many disciplines. Chapter titles include various dimensions of conflict formation and transformation, and human rights, gender, journalism, psychology, education, business, and peace movements. Other chapters focus on political science, international law, health, religion and language. Of course, authors of these chapters draw on many other disciplines.

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  1. 1.

    This text was first published as “Peace Studies as a Tran disciplinary Project”, in Johan Galtung and Charles Webel, eds., Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 299-318, 2007. The permission to republish this chapter was granted on 27 September 2012 by Rose Bavister of Taylor & Francis (UK).

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    This section is extensively extracted from Alger (2000: 6–9).

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  1. Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, 1501 Neil Ave 2674, Columbus, OH, 43201-2602, USA

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Alger, C.F. (2014). Peace Studies as a Transdisciplinary Project. In: Peace Research and Peacebuilding. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00503-4_5

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