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This volume sheds light on how social groups and individuals in Latin America resist to violence and strive to create peaceful, or at least less violent, conditions of conviviality. Peace Studies in Latin America is written for a wide and diverse audience not only from Latin America but from all over the world.

David Díaz-Arias is a Professor of History at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica. He has extensively published about different historical topics including the constitution of populism, social movements, state building, national identity, civil war, peace processes, and memory battles in Central America and Costa Rica during the 19th and 21st centuries.

Christine Hatzky is a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany and has further expertise in Atlantic history and the history of Lusophone Africa. Her research focuses on decolonisation processes, South-South cooperation, transnational solidarity networks, and the history of knowledge, violence and peace processes. She is head of the Center for Atlantic and Global Studies (CEAGS) at Leibniz Universität, co-director of the cooperative network project Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Mexico and Costa Rica, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Investigation (BMBF). Her publications include Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991 (2015) (Book Prize of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA, 2016) and Lateinamerika 1800-1930 and Lateinamerika seit 1930 (both 2021).

Werner Mackenbach is a Professor of History at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica. He is co-director of the Regional Center for Central America and the Caribbean of the cooperative network project Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). His areas of research are the literary and cultural history and the history of thought of Central America and the Caribbean, as well as memory studies of the region. His recent publications include studies on representations of violence and peace in Central American literature.

Sebastián Martínez Fernández holds a degree in philosophy and a master's degree in Inter-American Studies from the University of Bielefeld. He is a doctoral researcher at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies CALAS. Currently is a research assistant at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, where he also teaches. His areas of research are, among others, philosophical and aesthetic perspectives on the relationship between violence and peace, and conservative and nationalist thought.

Joachim Michael holds the Chair of Inter-American Studies and Romance Studies at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He is co-director of the Regional Center for Central America and the Caribbean of the cooperative network project Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He is a specialist in Ibero-American literature and audiovisual culture. His research and publications focus on cultures of peace and violence, the temporal regime of modernity, and televisual and cinematographic cultures in Latin America. He has also written about Ibero-American literature of the colonial era and of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Hinnerk Onken is working in the field of Latin American history. Since 2010 he has held positions as substitute professor, assistant professor, and research associate at the Universities of Cologne, Eichstätt, Hannover, and Münster. His PhD thesis (Catholic University of Eichstätt) in 2011 was awarded the prestigious "Kulturpreis Bayern."