Peace studies and conflict resolution

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.

This volume is a collection of contributions by world-leading experts in the nuclear field who participated in the educational activities of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO).

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book examines the nature of everyday peace mobilised in post-conflict settings.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it.

This book analyzes U.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of "e;formulas for betrayal"e; as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and "e;deeply divided"e; societies.

In the context of rapid developments in Turkey and its broader geopolitical environment over the past decade, this book examines and conceptualises Turkey's changing foreign policy towards a more assertive and revisionist paradigm.

This book presents a comprehensive historical account of sociology in Israel the first history of sociology in Israel, from its beginnings in late 19th-century to the early 21st-century.

This volume examines Lebanon's post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book explores the thirty-year border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, specifically around the former autonomous republic of Nagorno Karabakh, and shows how Russia is the only winner in this conflict: fighting on both sides, supplying arms to both sides, and acting as the arbiter between the two sides.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention.

This book focuses on measures pertaining to the three-pillar implementation strategy of R2P and examines how and to what extent the three pillars have been practised.

This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders' legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries.