Peace studies and conflict resolution

The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll.

The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years.

This book explains how colonial legacies and the postcolonial state of Pakistan negatively influenced the socio-political and cultural dynamics and the security situation in Pakistan's Pashtun 'tribal' areas, formerly known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution.

This edited volume examines the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and states in East Asia.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for individuals who are new to the discipline of International Relations or World Politics.

Iraq stands on the edge of civil war.

The role of interpreters in conflict situations is of increasing real world importance.

This major new study presents both conceptual and practical guidance at a crucial time when intellectual and practical efforts to protect against the new terrorism should move beyond a purely domestic focus.

First published in 1992, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service is a thought-provoking analysis of the role of the probation service in developing an integrated system of criminal justice.

This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author.

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater interconnectedness of various R2P proponents.

How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US?

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States-prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance contributes theoretical and empirical insights to the existing knowledge on the scope, challenges and results of post-conflict international state- and institution-building project focusing on post-war Kosovo.

A calming collection of allegories, and illustrations from a world-renowned peace ambassador.

"e;Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU's peace missions I have read so far.

During the United States military occupation of Iraq, the Kurdistan region was one of the few places in the country where insurgent violence was not a daily occurrence.

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at regulating the conduct of armed conflict developed from the 19th century to the present.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Iraq.

This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

To understand how people experience justice and security is a challenging task in times of unrest, marked by growing perceptions of insecurity, discrimination and uncertainty.

First published in 1986, Sikh Separatism is a comprehensive study of the emergence of Sikh unrest in India.

Hybrid warfare is becoming a long-term strategic challenge for NATO and the EU.

Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of "e;wonder"e; and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for a possible cure.

Millions of people around the world live in countries torn apart by war, where violence and suffering are part of everyday life.

As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century.

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders' legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries.

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world.

This timely book offers a comprehensive examination of the current state of nuclear stability postures worldwide, effectively highlighting their inherent limitations.

Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways.

Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Zizek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting the implicit violence within political and economic structures.

With the second-largest economy and rapidly growing military strength, China is now an emerging regional and global super power, which makes it confronted with a sudden increase in opportunities, pressures and conflicts in terms of international issues.

This book investigates technology's potential for stimulating and strengthening approaches that can lead to the peaceful solution of international conflicts.

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the US intervention in Lebanon in 1982 and the decision-making drivers that led the Reagan Administration into the Lebanese Civil War.

This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.

Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars.

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.