This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal to the political. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related disciplines. “Peacebuilding is one of the most popular and central approaches to conflict resolution. However, the idea has never been beyond criticism. One school of thought views peacebuilding as a top-down technique. This book conceptually addresses the problem by bringing the periphery to the center. It marries marginal with the mainstream. The book incorporates perceptions, knowledge, and insights of minority and marginalized communities. The book is an outcome of collaboration between senior academics and upcoming scholars. Hence, the book underscores the views and stories of the next generation on critical global issues. Practitioners, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students of conflict resolution could benefit immensely from this volume.” (S. I. Keethaponcalan, PhD, Professor of Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University, Maryland) “Global South liberation and de-colonization theories open new ways to analyze conflicts. Contributors of this volume, including policy analysts, poets, artists, and educators, bring us stories of resistance, representation, agency, and belonging from Africa to Latin America to Asia and North America. Our understanding of peace cannot be complete until we learn human stories within cultures to guide us to be closer in compassion and solidarity. Through this book, students of Politics, Policy, Human Rights, and Peace Studies are offered engagement with resistance against violence and find connections through lived experiences for various possibilities in our common desire for peace.” (Umut Ozkaleli, Associate Professor, ADA University, Baku) “In a world where we are ever more challenged by profound and increasing opportunities for complex levels of interaction with persons whose cultural constructs are distinctly different from our own, this unique collection of diverse voices invites readers to listen with their souls along a series of journeys where individual identities, realities, and experiences merge into one: that of an intensely, interdependent humanity. Quite simply, we need to listen to these voices. We need to share these stories. And we need to embrace their inherently human lessons.” (Imani Scott, Professor of Communications, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia) “This book incorporates perceptions, knowledge, and insights of minority and marginalied communities. Practitioners, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students of conflict resolution could benefit immensely from this volume.” ― S. I. Keethaponcalan , Professor of Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA “Through this book, students of politics, policy, human rights, and peace studies are offered engagement with resistance against violence and find connections through lived experiences for various possibilities in our common desire for peace.” ― Umut Ozkaleli , Associate Professor, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan “This unique collection of diverse voices invites readers to listen with their souls along a series of journeys where individual identities, realities, and experiences merge into one: that of an intensely interdependent humanity.” ― Imani Scott , Professor of Communications, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal to the political. It is a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related disciplines. Christina Beyene has worked for several years in the settlement and postsecondary sectors advocating for equitable educational policy. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Leonardo Luna is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana, Colombia, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Nkwazi Mhango teaches Swahili and African culture to Canadian diplomats and government workers posted to East Africa through Graybridge Malkam, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Jessica Senehi is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is Editor of Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies . She holds a PhD in Social Science from Syracuse University. Christina Beyene has worked for several years in the settlement