Research links a wide and diverse community of scholars, practitioners, and activists towards the common goal of building peace in the United States and play a key role in helping define (and create) the field of "peacebuilding in the US."

Edited by Emily Sample and Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Introduction: Who Builds Peace? Emily Sample
Part 1: Framing our Conversation of Peacebuilding in the United States
Chapter 1: Peacebuilding Begins at Home: A Call to U.S. Peacebuilders, Bridget Moix
Chapter 2: Social Justice as Peacebuilding in Black Churches: Where Do We Go From Here? Beverly Janet Goins
Part 2: Doing Good (?): Dialogue, Difference, and Ethical Practice
Chapter 3: What Can They Be Thinking? Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, Melinda Burrell
Chapter 4: Living Room Conversations: Identity Formation and Democracy, Jessica Shryack, Linda Taylor, Beth Raps, and Joan Blades
Chapter 5: Peacebuilding Programs in the United States: First Do No Harm, Elizabeth Hume
Part 3: Social Spaces and Social Practices of Peacebuilding
Chapter 6: Museum Education and Social Justice in Latinx Communities, Michelle Tovar
Chapter 7: Service for Peace: Working with Students and Youth to Plant the Future, Eddah Mutua
Chapter 8: Environmental In/Justice: Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene, Emily Sample
Part 4: Confronting Direct and Structural Racial Violence: The Paths Forward
Chapter 9: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels and White Protectionism, Danielle Christmas
Chapter 10: Legacy of Slavery: A New Approach to Reparations, Sarah Federman
Chapter 11: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in Maryland: From Narrative Change to Racial Healing, Charles Chavis, Jr.
Chapter 12: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew
Part 5: In the Spirit of Self Reflection: Discussions on Gender and Nation
Chapter 13: Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo, Shelly Clay-Robison, Melinda Burrell, Elizabeth Hume, Deena R. Hurwitz, Emily Sample and Kate E. Temoney
Chapter 14: "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Peacebuilding...": The Paradox of Order in the Shadow of Chaos, Patricia A. Maulden