Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent.

This book maps the genesis and development of Gandhi's idea of non-violence.

Why has social peace been preserved in some new, nationalizing countries in Eastern Europe and broken down in others?

In recent decades there have been several constructivist scholars who have looked at how norms change in international relations.

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration.

This book covers a wide range of security issues in Nigeria, including insurgency, terrorism, herder-farmer conflicts, military reforms and internal security, the Nigeria Police Force and security management, intelligence gathering and insecurity, etc.

Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood.

The first book to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies.

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country.

Mobilizing for Peace brings together the work of international experts to provide an in-depth study of thirty-three peace/conflict organizations in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine.

This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the 'disappearances' that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict - or 'Troubles' - and the post-conflict response to these 'disappearances.

Children of the Stone is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream a reality.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

This book examines the relationship between business-based peacebuilding and the opportunities that emerge from the pluralisation of regulation.

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence.

A multilayered analysis of how the dynamics of local politics, emotions, discourses and classroom practices can shape peace education initiatives.

This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners.

Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis.

Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues.

The Israeli-Palestinian struggle is considered to be one of the most entrenched conflicts in the world.

This book analyses the issue of child soldiers in order to understand how armed groups engage with international organizations to gain international legitimacy.

Militias have proven to be a consistent and enduring challenge to achieving peace in war zones around the world.

Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services.

The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students.

This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for.

Power-sharing is an important political strategy for managing protracted conflicts and it can also facilitate the democratic accommodation of difference.

A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa.

Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe.

This book offers a new way of understanding the role of the mediator in teaching parties the interrelationship between sustainable peace, forgiveness, and international justice.

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones?

This book is the product of a collective effort by some members of the Group of 78.

This book delves deep into the 'peace process' in Palestine/Israel to find out why so little progress has been made on the key issues.

Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World BEYOND War asserts that war itself can be ended.

Imagine being able to transform most any conflict into partnership.

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.

Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism' argues Joel Kovel.

Le premier thème de la série de livrets correspondants créée afin de fournir des renseignements accessibles et comparatifs sur les systèmes fédéraux traite des origines, structures et changements constitutionnels dans les pays fédéraux.

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This book contradicts the dominant myth that incompetent, corrupt, and uncompromising Palestinian decision-makers are responsible for the lasting stalemate in the Middle-East Peace Process.

Human progress and prosperity depend on a peaceful environment, and most people have always sought to live in peace, yet our perception of the past is dominated too often not by stories of peace but by tales of war.

Can a 500-Year-Old Conflict Be Healed?

Richard Falk has dedicated much of his life to the study of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press.

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of RebirthIn the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors.