Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, and Director of the Durham Global Security Institute, both at Durham University. He edits the journal Peacebuilding and co-directs the Everyday Peace Indicators project. His research is on the interface between bottom-up and top-down approaches to peace.

• Introduction


• 1. The Everyday, Circuitry, and Scalability


• 2. Sociality, Reciprocity and Reciprocity


• 3. Power


• 4. Parley, Truce and Ceasefire


• 5. Everyday Peace on the Battlefield


• 6. Gender and Everyday Peace


• 7. Conflict Disruption


• Conclusion

Everyday Peace is an innovative exploration of how so-called ordinary people are crucial to making and maintaining peace in conflict-affected societies. It unpacks the notion and practice of 'everyday peace' and how individuals and small groups of individuals can use their emotional intelligence to navigate their way through the potential dangers of everyday life in war-affected towns, cities and workplaces. The book is a major addition to theories of peace and provides insights into how peace is made and re-made at the local level. The study is comparative, inter-disciplinary and is packed with examples.