Peace studies and conflict resolution

Anthems are symbolic means through which nations present themselves to the world.

Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate.

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

The humanitarian crisis in Darfur, a consequence of the civil war and ongoing violence, has attracted significant international media attention.

Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win?

How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world?

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis.

From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable.

The role of the Far East is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics.

Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict.

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent.

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prolonged, contentious and divisive in the modern era.

Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines.

Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence.

The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution.

The island of Cyprus has been bitterly divided for more than four decades.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is, and remains to be, one of the most widely- and passionately-debated issues in the Middle East and in the field of international politics.

The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War.

In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule.

The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies.

"e;Global Civilization"e; emerged from a series of conversations between two peace advocates of Japanese and Iranian origin.

Long before it became fashionable to talk of climate change, drought and water shortages, the authors of this lucid and trenchant dialogue were warning that planet earth was heading for uninhabitability.

In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground.

The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history.

'The seas do not separate us; rather, they bring us closer together.

One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation.

Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact.

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward.

In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece.

Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war.

Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate.

Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict.

The role of the Far East is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics.

The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution.

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals.

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in conflict, western states with geopolitical interests in Africa's Great Lakes region, militia groups, human rights activists and NGOs use gendered media narratives strategically, often engaging in politics of revisionism and denial, to change the behaviour of other actors in the international system.

Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines.

Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence.

The island of Cyprus has been bitterly divided for more than four decades.

In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule.

Despite the proliferation of international humanitarian and human rights laws since the end of the Cold War, there has been an erosion of the practical immunity of civilians caught up in armed conflicts.

The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion, and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War.

One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation.