Abstract
Peace and conflict studies is an interdisciplinary field encompassing systematic research and teaching on the causes of violence and war and the conditions of peace. It focuses on causes of increase and decrease in violence, conditions associated with those changes, and processes by which changes happen. Peace studies was first identified as a field after World War II. This article examines debates over the conceptualization of peace, relationships between peace studies and other fields of study, and the evolution of peace studies, in three waves, in the late 1940s/early 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, with a period of stasis in the 1990s and fragmentation after 2000. It argues that the relationship between peace and justice remains a central question in the field.
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