Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book presents reflections of prominent international peacemakers in the Middle East, including Jimmy Carter, Lakhdar Brahimi, Jan Eliasson, Alvaro de Soto, and others.

The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s is among the most exciting and influential periods in the history of film.

This study examines the relevance of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in responding to humanitarian challenges across the world.

How will a unified Korea respond to the Kim regime's crimes against humanity?

This book discusses the moral and legal issues relating to military drones, focusing on how these machines should be judged according to the principles of just war theory.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This book makes a timely contribution to debates surrounding transnational political participation, the relationship between diasporas and conflict, and the gendered experiences of migrants.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the British Press provides an extensive empirical analysis of how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been constructed in British national newspapers since 1948.

Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration.

This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "e;security"e; broadly conceived.

This book systematically exploreshow different theoretical concepts of myth can be utilised to interpretivelyexplore contemporary international politics.

 This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons.

By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment.

Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East.

Based on interviews with political decision-makers involved in post-Cold War case studies, this research reassesses the prevalent conclusion in the academic literature, according to which American public opinion has limited influence on military interventions, by including the level of commitment in the study of the decision-making process.

This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace.

Drawing on lessons from civil society in Northern Ireland, Beyond Social Capital examines the limitations of social capital theory in deeply divided societies.

This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation.

In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in common?

A scholarly perspective of a soldier's own challenges working in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding engages with one of the central debates in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations.

Traditional counter-terrorism approaches, with their emphasis on the military, are failing.

This volume argues that a renewed commitment to sound macroeconomic policies and structural reforms is needed for countries in South East Europe, or 'the Balkans' achieve to sustainable prosperity, along with enhanced support from the international community.

Two leading experts in the field re-examine the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention in this major new text.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace.

Drawing on unique first-hand data from Russia's North Caucasus, this study is the first of its kind to detail the causes and contexts of individual disengagement of various types of militants: avengers, nationalists, and jihadists.

This edited volume is both a guide for educators and a resource for everyone who wants to strengthen resistance against a major atrocity that besieges human development.

Strengthening local humanitarian engagement demands not only rethinking dominant understandings of religion, but also revisiting the principles and practices of humanitarianism.

European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages.

Offering an introduction to clanism and tribalism in the Gulf of Aden area, Dr Lewis uses these concepts to analyse security in Yemen, Somalia, Somaliland and the broader region.

The book takes the reader into the world of women who become actively involved in various mobilization processes in the peace and conflict situations in Chiapas and in Northern Ireland.

This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone.

Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are '.

This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills.

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002.

This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour.

In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic.

This book analyzes the failure of the EU's peace-through-trade policy in Iraq and Iran between 1979 and 2009 from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

This book examines Israel's relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day War to the Labour Party's electoral defeat in 1977.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers.

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval?

In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace.

The post-Cold War world allows space for less powerful states to develop influential roles in responding to specific international problems.

Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process.