Contents1 Introduction to peace and the sustainable development goals 1Stefan Döring, Kristina Petrova, and Håvard Hegre2 Trends in peace and the SDGs: empirical overview of trends in peace andthe SDGs over the past 60 years 12Kristina Petrova, Håvard Hegre, and Stefan Döring3 Promoting peace 42Han Dorussen and Shenghao Zhang4 Exploring the nexus between democracy and SDGs 56Marina Nord and Staffan I. Lindberg5 Interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): insightson SDG 16 synergies and trade-offs 69Anne Warchold, Jing Li, and Prajal Pradhan6 SDGs and deliberate violence against civilians 88Lisa Hultman and Meri Mentula7 Peace and SDG1: no poverty 103Hannes Mueller and Chanon Techasunthornwat8 SDG 1: reassessing the relationship between civil war and poverty 119Stellah Kwasi, Yutang Xiong, Collin J. Meisel, Clay Morgan, andJonathan D. Moyer9 Peace and SDG2: a new framework for achieving zero hunger 136Ghassan Baliki, Florena Montoya, and Tilman Brück10 Peace and SDG 3: good health and wellbeing 150Debarati Guha-Sapir, Rebecca Louise Jones, Jideofor Thomas Ogbu,and Sarah Elizabeth Scales11 Health development in armed conflicts: is healthy lives and well-being forall reachable? 163Anneli Eriksson and Johan von Schreeb12 Peace and SDG4: quality education 177Roos Haer and Gudrun Østby13 SDG5: achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls 190Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Karin Johansson, and Susanne Schaftenaar14 Sustaining peace through water: water, peace, and the sustainabledevelopment goals 203Abeer S. Ahmad, Kyungmee Kim, Stefan Döring, and Ashok Swain15 Peace and SDG7: affordable and clean energy 218Philippe Le Billon, Manon Bourahla, Sherry Madah, and Ghassan Hamzeh16 Peace and SDG8: decent work 236Marjoke Oosterom and Marijke Verpoorten17 Peace, sustainability, and SDG 9: the challenges of extractives and energytransitions 250Stacy D. VanDeveer, Kendra Dupuy, Weston Marume, Nkasi Wodu,and Timothy A. Balag'kutu18 Sustainable development goal 10: inequality and conflict 265Syed Mansoob Murshed19 SDG 11: how can people live together in mixed cities after war? 277Anna Jarstad20 Peace and goal 12: sustainable consumption and production 289Bárbara Magalhães Teixeira21 Financing climate action for peace in conflict-affected states 303Kendra Dupuy22 The impacts of armed conflict on climate action (SDG 13): a review of theliterature 318Paola Vesco, Elisabeth Gilmore, and Halvard Buhaug23 Peace and SDG life below water 335Krista E. Wiegand and Sojeong Lee24 Dialogue for transformation: how conflicted conversations might help uslearn to be sustainable 348Nils Bunnefeld and Greg Mannion25 Civil peace and "good" institutions: mutually reinforcing relationships, ora more complicated story? 358Annekatrin Deglow, Hanne Fjelde, and Carl Henrik Knutsen26 Peace and SDG 17: transformative partnerships for sustainable peace 371Patricia Rinck, Carolin Rosenberg, and Cornelia Ulbert.