Peace studies and conflict resolution

With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed.

The book goes beyond mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to a holistic approach centered on healing.

This book explores how international sanctions on Iran reshaped the contours of East Asia's interactions with the Middle Eastern state.

Motivational models are critical to understanding crisis decision making because leaders and their advisors are emotionally involved, intent on reducing stress, and motivated to find ways of advancing their interests while minimizing the risk of war.

This book identifies a gap in peacebuilding theory and practice in terms of sensitivity to trauma and its impact on the survivors of war and other mass violence.

Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Beatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination.

This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland.

This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world.

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations.

This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo.

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict.

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society.

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book introduces the four principal sets of institutions that engage in bringing peace and relief to societies mired in violent conflicts and humanitarian crises-the United Nations and other international bodies; non-governmental organizations; civilian government agencies; and militaries.

This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security.

This book evaluates the potential for the transformative mediation framework to be adopted in a non-western context.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This book provides an understanding of Russia's geopolitical strategic interests as well as a larger picture of its political realities.

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

What are the causes of war?

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

This book examines the projects of administrative and territorial reconstruction of Arab countries as an aftermath of the "e;Arab Spring"e;.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

This book provides an overview of the National Dialogue design process in fragile settings at the national, regional, and international levels in the MENA region.

This book examines the foreign policy of the Republic of Cyprus, particularly since 2004-the year of its accession to the European Union and of the failed Annan Plan V of the United Nations which aimed to solve the decades-old Cyprus Problem.

This book investigates the legitimacy deficits of two potentially conflicting legal systems, namely Public and Islamic international law.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of preconditions and processes of interorganizational cooperation among IGOs in peace operations and how these collaborative efforts account for the success and failure of such missions.

This book provides an up--to--date discussion of the effect of crises on European identities in the post--Soviet states.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book reveals the nature of Sino-US strategic competition by examining the influence exerted by major secondary stakeholders, e.

This book explores Hobbes's ideas about the internal pacification of states, the prospect of a peaceful international order, and the connections between civil and international peace.

This book provides a detailed analysis of Russia's 'great power identity' and the role of Europe in forming this identity.

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace.

This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?

This book identifies contemporary military coalition defections, builds a theoretical framework for understanding why coalition defection occurs and assesses its utility for both the scholarly and policy practitioner communities.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This book helps to better understand how the interaction between local and international peacebuilding actors influences the outcomes of their programs.

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession.