The purpose of this edited volume is to collect and critically engage with diverse perspectives on peace and peacebuilding. It explores how peace is understood and achieved across different regions and contexts, challenging the Western-centric dominance of liberal peacebuilding. While peace is a universally desired condition, there is no singular or uncontested understanding of what peace entails, nor is there a single pathway through which it can be achieved. A substantial body of literature has evaluated the dominant international approach to peacebuilding in societies emerging from violent conflict. A broad consensus exists in the literature that, since the end of the Cold War, the prevailing model has been the liberal peace. This approach is grounded in the assumption that economic liberalization, through market-oriented reforms and political liberalization, through democratic governance and institution-building, creates conditions necessary for lasting peace in post-conflict contexts (Mac Ginty, 2010; Paris, 2004; Richmond, 2005). As such, liberal peacebuilding has shaped the design and implementation of numerous post-conflict interventions in the Global South, often led by international organizations, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, as well as donor states, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Critical scholarship has shown that the international community’s conceptualization of peace is often narrowly defined and deeply rooted in Western historical and ideological contexts, a conception closely tied to the liberal peace model.