Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic).

The book calls for rethinking U.

This book explains how and why the Basque separatist armed group ETA decided to end its armed campaign against the Spanish state.

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape.

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This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace research, providing a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence nationally and internationally.

This book offers an explanation and evaluation of preventative diplomacy in an age of increasing precariousness.

This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany - how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

How does ideology in some states radicalise to such an extent as to become genocidal?

This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place.

This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation.

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.

This book contributes to the study of collective memory and the sociology of terrorism by analysing the role of memorialization in relation to terrorism, its victims, and the broader society.

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs.

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide.

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state of international law as it applies to transboundary groundwater resources and aquifers.

Roudometof provides an in-depth analysis of inter-ethnic relations in the southern Balkans.

Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on those offenders who are often assessed as being dangerous.

How do rebel groups decide how to recruit members?

NATO, an organisation brought together to function as an anti-communist alliance, faced existential questions after the unexpected collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s.

With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture.

This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners.

Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars.

A resource for working through conflict with dialogue toward the goal of peace.

Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful.

Sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations (UN) peacekeepers is not an isolated or recent problem, but it has been present in almost every peacekeeping operation.

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa.

First published in 1976, this book examines the practical workings of the English criminal court system, focusing on the defendant's experiences of the system and the decisions he takes as he passes through it.

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.

This edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization.

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This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding.

National sovereignty, defined as a nation's right to exercise its own law and practise over its territory, is a cherished norm in the modern era, and yet it raises great legal, political and ethical dilemmas.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

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

This book analyses the relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations in the interwar years.

Wieder einmal wird in Deutschland die existenzielle Frage von Krieg und Frieden debattiert – genauer: die Frage nach der Legitimation nationalstaatlicher Gewalt innen- und außenpolitisch.

Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.