The coloniality of peace describes how appeals to peace can be complicit with coloniality by supporting and reinforcing modern/colonial purposes of domination, control, and extraction, among others. To provide analytical tools to identify the coloniality of peace, this contribution builds on a range of critiques of ‘peace’ that have been enunciated from post- and decolonial stances. It includes three analytical steps: 1) identifying the coloniality of peace 2) problematizing the coloniality of peace and 3) destabilizing the coloniality of peace. The contribution sets out to outline this critique along some of the core analytical concepts of decolonial theories and locate the function of the coloniality of peace in the modern/colonial system.
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