Peace studies and conflict resolution

Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world s most turbulent regions has become the new global imperative.

Wars often spring out of nowhere with little warning.

How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern.

Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end.

This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis - that is, the idea of world or 'global' government.

Peace processes are mostly very fragile.

After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it?

Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world s most turbulent regions has become the new global imperative.

Wars often spring out of nowhere with little warning.

How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern.

Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end.

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'War is a man's game,' or so goes the saying.

'War is a man's game,' or so goes the saying.

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.

Terrorists and peacemakers may grow up in the same community and adhere to the same religious tradition.

Since the 1990s, the international security environment has shifted radically.

During war, space for debate shrinks.

The impact of severe security crises on peace negotiations represents one of the most significant facets of modern conflict resolution theory to remain under-researched.

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, Brian Orend has written an engaging dialogue from the perspectives of a critically injured soldier and his spouse on all questions related to the ethics of going to war and the ethics of fighting in war.

How Do I Save My Honor?

Tramas y conversaciones sobre lo común es resultado del diálogo que surge desde los diversos "andares" académicos, políticos, afectivos y cotidianos, de quienes participaron de su escritura, con el fin de hablar de lo que sucede, de lo que se hace o se despliega para crear, componer y mantener lo colectivo, lo comunitario.

Ortmann, Lau, and Chan together with the contributors provide an innovative assessment of the impact of the National Security Law on Hong Kong politics.

Resolving conflict in the workplace?

Resolving conflict in the workplace?

This book assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process.

This book assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process.

Belgium was a major hub for transnational movements.

Belgium was a major hub for transnational movements.

After three decades of violence, Northern Ireland has experienced unprecedented peace.

After three decades of violence, Northern Ireland has experienced unprecedented peace.

This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation.

Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success.

Coaching in the Grey Space is set to enhance the practice of coaching psychology, by defining the previously unidentified grey space - where boundaries between the coaching and therapeutic terrain intersect.

Why the need for another book on crime, prison overcrowding, drug and alcohol addictions, etc.

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations.

This edited collection brings together a series of conceptual explorations and practical case studies to illuminate a developing innovative praxis of transdisciplinary peace and education.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;In the fourth year : anticipations of a world peace (The original unabridged edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

In 1973, Yashev Raval wrote The Power of Wisdom, correctly pointing out that collusion between East and West had kept not only the balance of terror but provided the glue that kept geographic spheres of influence stable.

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crises periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions.

Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice systems, to provide a healing response to harm, and in broader community contexts, to help people co-exist peacefully.

The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identitypolitically and through violence.

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative.

Best known for his efforts to end World War I, Benedict XV was the first contemporary pope to assume the role peacemaker, a role that has persisted in the papacy since.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.