Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book is about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the work pursued by Alva Myrdal, a pioneering social activist, diplomat, cabinet minister, and disarmament negotiator.

This book explores the meaning of life for Israelis from communities bordering the Gaza Strip, whose lives are bound to the intractable conflict between Israel and the Hamas regime.

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order.

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of conflict studies, drawing on perspectives from psychology and Buddhist studies.

This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community ("e;RSC"e;) arrangement in Africa.

This book breaks down the outcomes of stabilization operations including those related to establishing or enhancing safety and security, institutions of governance, rule of law, social well-being, economic development, access to education and health care, infrastructure development, reducing corruption and all the associated elements for shoring up fragile communities.

This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and international levels in the contemporary global context.

This book offers a unique perspective on changing gender practices in post-conflict societies, looking at when and how masculinities change after armed conflicts.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

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This 2nd edition of the Handbook explores how to conceptualize new realities of race and ethnic relations.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Iraq.

This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine.

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa.

This Palgrave Pivot presents theoretical models that explain common historical sequences, such as wars of secession, the rise and fall of empires, and international war.

This book examines the theoretical and practical relevance and challenges of the consociationalist model of democracy.

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence.

This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders.

This book examines expectations for justice in transitional societies and how stakeholder expectations are ignored, marginalized and co-opted by institutions in the wake of conflict.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that if we are to understand civil conflict we need to grasp how everyday life is shaped by local conflict imaginaries.

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

This book offers a critical examination of 'infrastructures for peace', originally proposed as a framework of conflict transformation.

In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa.

This book analyses and furthers the academic debates on post-liberal peacebuilding, through a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical research outputs.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book seeks to answer the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's Kurds, in Turkey.

This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western childhood constructions and their impact to the developing world.

This book tells the story of the United States' relationship with the Taliban from the start of the Taliban movement until its retreat from Kabul in the face of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that 'civil war represents development in reverse'.

This book argues that the existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict has so far failed to take into account the role of socio-cultural disparities among belligerents.

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America.

This book explores presidential justifications of every major American military conflict from the War of 1812 to the Second Gulf War.

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self.

Krieg, grundsätzlich verstanden als organisierte Gewaltanwendung zwischen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen oder Staaten, ist eine Erscheinung der Konfliktaustragung, die seit Jahrtausenden einen festen Bestandteil der menschlichen Geschichte bildet.

This book presents narratives of the social use of space in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding.

This is an autobiography of an unusual and versatile woman, focusing on her academic development and achievements as well as her international activism.

This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term.

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions.

This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA's Ecology and Peace Commission.

This book examines how local agencies in Cambodia and Mindanao (the Philippines) have developed their own models of peacebuilding under the strong influence and advocacy of external intervention.

This book examines why the U.

This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State.