The Wiley Handbook of Political and Social Conflict

The Wiley Handbook of Social and Political Conflict

Please send a copy of your abstract to Sergei A. Samoilenko ((ssamoyle /at/ gmu.edu) ) or Solon Simmons ((ssimmon5 /at/ gmu.edu) ) by February 15, 2023

Edited by

Sergei A. Samoilenko and Solon Simmons (George Mason University)

The Scope of This Volume

For most of the twentieth century, researchers and practitioners from various academic fields have been interested in the study of social and political conflict and in its practical application. However, most available readers and anthologies were designed for relatively narrow circles of scholars, even those that aspired to see beyond disciplinary boundaries. Accordingly, most of these collections are less useful than they could be in a globalizing academic marketplace that places more value on solving real world problems than on disciplinary purity.

This handbook responds to the demand for a practical and comprehensive collection of recent scholarship that transcends disciplinary boundaries, consisting of recent and original essays that satisfy the growing interest in social and political conflict, preparing any bright student with a general interest in ideas about conflict, peace, power, and justice with a method of translating seemingly diverse concepts with origins in specialized disciplines into a common, if complex, transdisciplinary language.

Call for Proposals

Every discipline and even sub-discipline of social science has a roster of useful yet confounding terms that sound like jargon from the outside but which nevertheless are essential to define key concepts that often prove useful for the analysis and resolution of conflict. We invite scholars from any discipline or field to contribute a concise essay (4000-5000 words) on any concept, keyword, or scientific term that is critical for the study of social and political conflict. The test for choosing a concept is to isolate a critical term or concept that you would insist that any recent graduate student in your field should know. In order to cast as wide a net for the capture of critical concepts as possible, we invite on scholars from any field that deals in contested power, governance, and the negotiation and management of escalated tensions to submit an abstract for consideration. In other words, any necessary term can be chosen.

Contents of Proposal Abstract

-Concept or term: Specify the concept of term on which you would like to write (10 words): Example: Intersectionality: interconnected categories of disadvantage.

-Origin and Development of the concept or term (100 words):

-Important contemporary scholarly uses of the concept (100 words)

-A real-world example of the term in practical use (50 words)