Abstract
In this chapter, we introduce ourselves as the three editors according to the tikanga/customs of the Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa and Samoa. The field of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) as cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary is examined briefly and is found to be Eurocentric, Western, gendered and silent on several issues including racism. Calls to decolonise academia through Indigenous research are considered, and the dearth of Indigenous knowledge in PACS is acknowledged. The contributions on research with, by and for Indigenous Peoples in this book are by scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Caribbean, Hawai’I, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Philippines, Samoa, the United States and West Papua.