The six chapters dealing with African contexts begin with the unstable "peace" of occasionally violent interactions between pastoralists and farmers in Burkina Faso (Sten Hagberg). The social logics of war and violence are evident even during periods of relative peace, and peace-building efforts may be found even in the midst of violent conflict. The format underscores the overall project of the text: to use ethnographic approaches to conflict to understand war and peace not as distinct, essential states but as contingent processes. The essays are organized "according to a bell-curve representing the continuum peace-war-peace" (p. No Peace No War brings together nine case studies by Uppsala faculty and graduates under the editorship of Paul Richards, who participated in 1997 as a visiting scholar in an Uppsala research group on the anthropology of violence and "new wars." The volume is completed by an introductory essay, a piece coauthored by Richards and Caspar Fithen, and a short obituary and complete bibliography of the work of Somalia researcher Bernhard Helander, to whose memory the book is dedicated. Scholars associated with Uppsala University's Department of Cultural Anthropology and its Living Beyond Conflict Seminar have produced some of the most exciting recent ethnographic research on conflict and postconflict zones.
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