Choosing Peace: An Exploration of Motivations and Means of Peace Agency
Annotated Bibliography
Peace agency can be defined as the capacity and intentional effort of individuals or communities to act in ways which seek to positively and nonviolently transform conflict situations toward more peaceful and just realities. This bibliography offers a starting point in developing a “theory of peace agency”, with hopes of better understanding some of the motivations and means that spark and sustain such intentional peace efforts. As such, it combines three primary lines of literature that contribute to the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies: 1) social agency theory, 2) theory and practice of peacebuilding, and 3) post-liberal criticism of peacebuilding. At the nexus of these three arenas of debate we may begin to explore the possible foundations of a “theory of peace agency”.