Research networks
TG02 Sociology of Conflict Transformations and Peacebuilding
Contact TG02 at isa-tg02@isa-sociology.org
Established in July 2025.
Objectives
The thematic group has been established as a space to reflect on the social processes, practices, norms, and discourses that create, sustain, and reproduce peace, as well as on the social transformation of conflict. Understanding peace and conflict transformations as social processes requires analysing how multiple actors, perspectives, and ideas interact to address the legacies of violence and promote peace and dignity. These processes unfold across different temporalities and are embedded in social contexts shaped by institutions, grassroots movements, and individual agency, including state bodies, social movements, religious organisations, the media, schools, human rights defenders, and indigenous peoples, among others.
Our analytical perspective applies across multiple geographical regions and across diverse socio-political conflicts, ranging from interstate wars and interethnic armed struggles to local environmental disputes. We welcome a wide array of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of peace and conflict, including, though not limited to, liberal and critical perspectives on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, negotiation, mediation, human rights, transitional justice, memory studies, peace education, communication for peace, intersectional and ecological approaches to peacebuilding
Board 2023 - 2027
| President | Marian ORJUELA, Heidelberg University, Germany, marian.orjuela@gmail.com |
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| Vice-President | Sandra RIOS OYOLA, University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands, sriosoyola@gmail.com |
| Secretary/Treasurer | Karla HENRÍQUEZ OJEDA, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, karla.henriquez@uclouvain.be |
| Newsletter Editor | Rosario FIGARI LAYUS, University of Bonn, Germany |
| Social Media Manager | Tatiana QUINTERO SUÁREZ, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| Board Members | Elizabeth MABER, University of Cambridge, UK Marc PRADEL, Barcelona University, Spain Kaan AGARTAN, Framingham State University, USA |
Membership
Regular Member: USD 20 for a 4-year period.
Discount member (students up to PhD; members residing in countries classified in category B and C): USD 10 for a 4-year period
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