Peace studies and conflict resolution

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Communications are key to the success of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Effectively resolving conflict prevents violence, reduces incidents, improves productivity, and contributes to the overall health of an organization.

How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis?

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This book examines both how and why nonviolent civil resistance campaigns fail, and the diverse category of campaigns that fall short.

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For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish.

"e;Pomp, pageantry and epic showing-off: a vivid re-creation of the 1520 peace-promoting rally between the kings of England and France.

Western struggles-and failures-to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse.

In this landmark work, two leading theorists of international relations analyze the strategies designed to avoid international conflict.

International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN's development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding.

This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence.

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference.

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

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

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC.

The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution.

This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.

International criminal law has developed extraordinarily quickly over the last decade, with the creation of ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court.

This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions.

Palestinian civilians engaged in numerous acts of unarmed resistance during the second intifada.

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field.

The book makes theoretical and empirical contributions to recent debates on hybrid forms of peace and 'post-liberal' peace.

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

The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) - CPN(M).

Despite the increasing frequency of truth commissions, there has been little agreement as to their long-term impact on a state's political and social development.

This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.

This book examines changes in the Persian Gulf security complex following the United States (US) invasion of Iraq in 2003, focusing on threats to the collective identities of two religious sects - Shia and Sunni.

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.

This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security.

This book presents a cogent but comprehensive review of Taiwan's socio-economic transformation from a Japanese colony to a thriving East Asian mini-state.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relationsThe Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time.

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

  This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America.

Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999.

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries.

This book examines the history of Bosnia and post-conflict Bosnian education in the setting of a society very much still politically divided.

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival.

This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts.

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.

In this path-breaking study, Fr.