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This contribution provides an overview of conflict studies in Cultures & Conflits over the last three decades through an examination of how articles framed conflict situations, the actors involved and their agency. I argue that one of the main contributions of an anthropological and sociological approach is the de-reification of international conflict in stressing the contingency, messy and “humane-made” dimensions of conflict that contrasts strongly with those approaches that only see in a given “case” what they expected to see according to their theoretical lenses.