Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2009 Special Issue: Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict
Edited by Audrey Kobayashi

Beginning in 2009, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers will increase publication from four to five issues per year. The extra issue will serve as special publication that highlights the work of geographers around a significant theme.  The Annals is a flagship publication of the Association of American Geographers. The addition of an annual themed fifth issue marks an exciting change for both the journal and the Association.

The theme for the inaugural special issue is Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict.

How can geographers contribute to world peace? This collection gathers the insights of geographers in every branch of the discipline to discuss territory and geopolitics, the social effects of violence, resource issues, and postconflict initiatives. The issue (publishing in December 2009) provides an ideal reader for courses devoted to understanding the impact of violence and prospects of peace in virtually every part of the globe. The Table of Contents for this issue is as follows:

Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict: Introduction
Audrey Kobayashi

Conceptualizing ConflictSpace: Towards a Geography of Relational Power and Embeddedness in the Analysis of Interstate Conflict
Colin Flint, Paul Diehl, Juergen Scheffran, John Vasquez, and Sang-hyun Chi

Oil Prices, Scarcity and Geographies of War
Philippe Le Billon and Alejandro Cervantes

Mobilizing Rivers: Hydro-electricity, the State and the Second World War in Canada
Matthew Evenden

Practicing Radical Geopolitics: Logics of Power and the Iranian Nuclear “Crisis”
Julien Mercille and Alun Jones

“A Microscopic Insurgent”: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence
Jenna M. Loyd

The Political Utility of the Nonpolitical Child in Sri Lanka's Armed Conflict
Margo Kleinfeld

Terror, Territory, and Deterritorialization: Landscapes of Terror and the Unmaking of State Power in the Mozambican “Civil” War
Elizabeth Lunstrum

The Geography of Conflict and Death in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Victor Mesev, Peter Shirlow, and Joni Downs

What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where?  Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity After 9/11
Mathew Coleman

Embedded Empire: Structural Violence and the Pursuit of Justice in East Timor
Joseph Nevins

Armed Conflict and Resolutions in Southern Thailand
May Tan-Mullins

Crafting Liberal Peace? International Peace Promotion and the Contextual Politics of Peace in Sri Lanka
Kristian Stokke

“Nature Knows No Boundaries”: A Critical Reading of UNDP Environmental Peacemaking in Cyprus
Emel Akali and Marco Antonsich

Innovative Approaches to Territorial Disputes: Using Principles of Riparian Conflict Management
Shaul Cohen and David Frank

Walls as Technologies of Government: The Double Construction of Geographies of Peace and Conflict in Israeli Politics, 2002-Present
Samer Alatout

Citizenship in the Line of Fire: Protective Accompaniment, Proxy Citizenship, and Pathways for Transnational Solidarity in Guatemala
Victoria L. Henderson

Staging Peace through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Orna Blumen and Sharon Halevi

“Foreign Passports Only”: Geographies of (Post)Conflict Work in Kabul, Afghanistan
Jennifer Fluri

Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Post-Conflict Recovery, and Land Tenure in Liberia
Leif Brottem and Jon Unruh

Halfway to Nowhere: Liberian Former Child-Soldiers in a Ghanaian Refugee Camp
Lucinda Woodward and Peter Galvin

Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia
Kristin Bakke, John O'Loughlin, and Michael D. Ward

“Post”-Conflict Displacement: Isolation and Integration in Georgia
Beth Mitchneck, Olga Mayorova, and Joanna Regulska

Satellite Data Methods and Application in the Evaluation of War Outcomes: Abandoned Agricultural Land in Bosnia-Herzegovina After the 1992-1995 Conflict
Frank Witmer and John O'Loughlin

After Ethnic Cleansing: Return Outcomes in Bosnia-Herzegovina a Decade Beyond War
Gearid Tuathail and John O'Loughlin

Book Review Essay:
Killing for Cause? Geographies of War and Peace
John Agnew