This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in peace and conflict studies. Attempts to ‘spatialise’ this field of enquiry have emphasised the ways actors and ideas travel and transform across scale (from the personal to the local, regional and global) and how agents, actors and identities constitute, and are constituted by, space and place in dynamics of conflict and peace. Attention to space has increased appreciation of the complex nature of nature of war- and peace-‘scapes’, and reflects upon space as material and symbolic, given meaning through peoples’ embodied activity and interactions. The articles in this issue engage with the foundations of the spatial turn and build upon innovations in spatial analysis of peace and conflict by focussing on the idea of ‘emplacement’ and emplaced security as critical to peacebuilding efforts and processes of conflict transition. To do so, we consider place in a relational sense, focussing on attachment, affective connection and narratives of place-identity as these are connected with conflict management, security, governance and political ordering.

本导言概述了与以下学者有关的文章集，这些文章涉及并旨在扩展最近的奖学金，这些奖学金强调将空间作为和平与冲突研究中的一种分析类别。试图“空间化”这一研究领域，强调了行为者和思想在规模上（从个人到地方，区域和全球）传播和转变的方式，以及代理人，行为者和身份如何构成空间和地方以及由空间和地方构成。在冲突与和平的动态中。对空间的关注增加了对战争与和平“景观”本质复杂性的认识，并将空间视为物质和环境。象征性的，通过人们的具体活动和互动赋予意义。本期文章着眼于空间转向的基础，并着重于对和平建设和冲突过渡过程至关重要的“安置”和安置安全概念，在和平与冲突空间分析的创新基础上进行创新。为此，我们从关系的角度考虑场所，重点是依恋，情感联系和场所身份叙事，因为这些与冲突管理，安全，治理和政治秩序相关。