Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book presents what numerous reviewers have called the best existing argument for the abolition of war, demonstrating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war.

This book examines the dynamics of oil and gas conflicts within the context of federalism in Canada, an older federation with broadly a decentralized institutional design governing oil and gas, and Nigeria, a newer federation with a largely centralized design.

This volume examines the many dimensions of dialogue as a key driver of peaceful personal and social change.

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked-despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region.

In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L.

At no time in Northern Ireland's history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region's conflict.

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses?

Did you know that a soldier's armor has historic lessons to tell, too?

Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine.

Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

If your compassionate instincts are greater than the time or energy you can spare, The Difference a Day Makes is all you need to turn your good intentions into powerful action.

Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history.

Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history.

There isn't anything good about war except for the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

Let's meet and greet some of history's greatest war commanders!

This book is perfect for the future armies of the world.

People could truly learn so much reading history, there's no doubt about that.

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.

Part 2 of 'Cooperation for a Peaceful and Sustainable World' brings together some of the leading researchers on peace science.

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises.

Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management.

Good business needs a peaceful and just world in which to operate and prosper.

This volume explores three recent challenges the military faces: changing missions, changing socio-economic and demographic conditions, and end of conscription.

This volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France.

When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland's troubled past.

In this landmark collection, the voices of pathmakers and innovators in peacebuilding evaluation are assembled to provide new direction for the field.

Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience explores the role that culture plays in the study and practice of homeland security in an all-hazards, whole-community, and all-of-government scope.

There have been few, if any, attempts to translate the immense library of academic studies on gender norms for a lay audience, or to illustrate practical ways in which their insights could (and should) be applied.

This book is aimed at both professionals and students who desire to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflict intervention and resolution effectively.

Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace.

Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations.

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers who challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

En la presente versión de la Cátedra Institucional Lasallista 2014, denominada "Cartografías para la paz: la experiencia de las ciudadanías", quisimos avizorar las posibilidades de paces desde los ciudadanos y las comunidades locales, que reclaman una reconfiguración de los actores de la guerra precisamente en relación con la civilidad misma, una institucionalidad dialogante y renovada y unas opciones distintas de desarrollo, respetuosas con el medio ambiente y con el mundo simbólicorelacional, acciones que consecuentemente permitirían la mutación de la sociedad en su conjunto.

This book explores how the experience of war and related atrocities tend to be visually expressed and how such articulations and representations are circulated and consumed.

This book assesses the important role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the management of regional political, security and economic relations.

This book explores how BRICS countries respond to, and get involved in, large scale armed conflict.

This book provides a state of the art discussion of the royal prerogative over war powers in the UK.

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today's international security environment.

This book explores relations between communication and conflict.

This book compares different international responses to the internal conflicts in Syria and Yemen through an examination of the coverage each conflict has received in the media.

"e;Jenkins' rare combination of psychological theorizing and archival research in several countries and time periods yields a fascinating new take on the central question of when states over-estimate or under-estimate others' resolve.

This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security.

First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War, sparked immediate controversy.