To uncover a truly global security perspective, scholars should detach themselves from the parochial boundaries of the Western academic discipline of IR and look to the international realm more broadly for approaches that may not necessarily look like orthodox (Western) theory.
We must simultaneously unlearn what we’ve been told are universal ‘facts’: and walk with, engage with, and learn from situated approaches to not only peacebuilding but political phenomena in general.
This article proposes a non-Western alternative to Eurocentric IR theory by marrying together aspects of three unconventional cosmologies from outside of the constructed Western IR boundary – Daoism, ubuntu, and dharma.
Dr Bryony Vince-Myers 