Peace studies and conflict resolution

The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups.

This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it.

This book explores hybrid peacebuilding in Asia, focusing on local intermediaries bridging the gaps between incumbent governments and insurgents, national leadership and the grassroots constituency, and local stakeholders and international intervenors.

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides.

This study thinks with photography about peace.

This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning.

This book explores the potential of social media as a space for teaching and bringing about sustainable peace.

This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardon's peace education theory and intellectual legacy.

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between compromise and democracy.

This book analyses the UN's Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights.

This book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable.

This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and further charts the course to a more practical framework for achieving regional stability and justice.

"e;Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of political imagination.

This book assesses the effectiveness of Nigeria's counterterrorist policies against Boko Haram.

This book explores the EU's effectiveness as an international mediator and provides a comparative analysis of EU mediation through three case studies: the conflict over Montenegro's independence, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, and the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This book explores the challenges of creating a secure and stable Iraq in the wake of the military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse.

This book discusses the following questions: Why are some conflicts so enduring and why is conflict resolution so hard?

From Darfur to the Rwandan genocide, journalists, policymakers, and scholars have blamed armed conflicts in Africa on ancient hatreds or competition for resources.

This book provides a nuanced understanding of an often neglected aspect of armed conflicts, namely the everyday structures that sustain lives during crises and, specifically, care-work performed by women.

This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors.

This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa.

This book explores the changing nature of secessionist attempts in connection with rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscapes.

This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.

This study explores corruption in Rwanda and highlights the necessity of developing anti-corruption education as a way of combating corruption.

When crises occur, citizens, media and policymakers alike expect government to respond and to take a leading role in recovery.

This book sheds new light on transrational approaches to peace research and highlights elicitive approaches to facilitation.

This book investigates the imaginative capacities of literature, art and culture as sites for reimagining human rights, addressing deep historical and structural forms of belonging and unbelonging; the rise of xenophobia, neoliberal governance, and securitization that result in the purposeful precaritization of marginalized populations; ecological damage that threatens us all, yet the burdens of which are distributed unequally; and the possibility of decolonial and posthuman approaches to rights discourses.

This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society.

This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s.

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition?

This book explores the opportunities and limitations of campus-community partnerships in Israel.

This book explores pathways to redress for main groups of victims/survivors of the 1992-5 Bosnian war -families of missing persons, victims of torture, survivors of sexual violence, and victims suffering physical disabilities and harm.

This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to current research on armed groups and proposes a unitary political theory for their future analysis.

This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection.

This book explores the potential for imagining a politics without violence and evidence that this need not be a utopian project.

In this thoroughly revised edition of his bestselling 1999 volume Why Peacekeeping Fails, Dennis Jett explains why peacekeepers today are dying in record numbers while engaged in operations that either are bound to fail or make little contribution to peace.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book asks how independent commissions helped to overcome difficulties during the implementation phase of the Good Friday Agreement.

This book explores how revolutionary developments and convergence of the chemical, life and associated sciences are impacting contemporary toxin and bioregulator research, and examines the risks of such research being misused for malign purposes.

This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow's decades' long research on conflict management and resolution.

This volume investigates both violent conflicts and non-violent conflict behavior.

This book explores the delicate interconnections between law and economics, especially as regards island entitlements under international maritime law.

This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding violence and violent conflict using complexity and network theories, borrowed from the natural sciences, together with social network analysis.