Peace for Whom? Nation-States, Conflict and Violence

<p>In this paper, I discuss how the issues of peace and violence have been analyzed in the area of Transnational Sociology, a relatively new discipline that .rst emerged in the 1980s. Transnational Sociology focuses on phenomena that cannot be understood well within disciplines that deal with nations and states as units, as nation-states have become relatively weak in the face of globalization. This article analyzes a prominent work in Transnational Sociology by Mitsuo Ogura and Sayaka Funa-da-Classen that deals with con.ict and violence （『解放と暴力――植民地支配とアフリカの現在』東京大学出版会、 2018年）, together with two books authored by myself （The Nellie Massacre of 1983: Agency of Rioters, 2013年, Sage;『終わりなき暴力とエスニック紛争――インド北東部の国内避難民』慶應義塾大学出版会， 2021年） , in an attempt to grasp the trends in the discipline. The study of diverse actors, including colonial subjects, small farmers, and internally displaced persons, has revealed that the question of what peace and liberation mean to them has become central to the discipline of Transnational Sociology, which emerged with the rise of non-state ac-tors as catalysts. Existing studies on peace and violence in the discipline can serve as attempts to enrich the “subject of peace”（「平和の主体論――サバルタンとジェンダーの視点から」『平和研究』Vol. 42） that has been previously highlighted by Chiha-ru Takenaka, and have the potential to open up a new horizon for Peace Studies. </p>