Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara.

This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic).

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.

What does it mean to face a life prison sentence?

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations.

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary.

Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities.

A revealing look at Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West BankMany in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda.

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative.

This book highlights the repeated refusal of post-genocide Rwandan refugees to return 'home' and why even high-profile government officials continue to flee to this day.

This book presents a critical review of the performance of UN Peacekeeping with its changing scope from traditional peacekeeping to peacemaking and peace building.

In this lucid and timely new book, Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution.

This book outlines the foreign and security policy of the European Union as envisaged under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).

This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict-the Gaza Nakba 2023-24.

The 'Sunningdale experiment' of 1973-4 witnessed the first attempt to establish peace in Northern Ireland through power-sharing.

The 'Sunningdale experiment' of 1973-4 witnessed the first attempt to establish peace in Northern Ireland through power-sharing.

Utilising a wide range of archival correspondence and diaries, this monograph reconstructs the 1974-79 Labour government's policies in Northern Ireland.

This study explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance.

This book looks at the theoretical issue of how a democracy can defend itself from those wishing to subvert or destroy it without being required to take measures that would impinge upon the basic principles of the democratic idea.

This book assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process.

This volume analyses several recent evolutions in global defence activities.

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Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.

If you think world peace is a naive concept, Paul K.

Once in a great while, a book is written that substantially changes the way people think about a particular subject.

A Special Forces veteran and security advisor shares what he's learned about dealing with conflict: "e;A powerful book"e; (Peter Bergen).

Written to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the GFA, this book argues that the seeds of recent problems were sown in the 1998 agreement.

This book is about WAR--not the causes and results, not the planning and the campaigns, not the artillery and the bombs.

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: ?

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

War is never a happy subject.

Military machines have definitely involved from bayonets to nuclear missiles.

This is the story of Gandhis spiritual evolution the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence.

No, this book does not and will never promote war or any battle to your kids' precious young minds.

Knowledge is power.

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.

Imagine being able to transform most any conflict into partnership.

The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of RebirthIn the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors.

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles.

Arthur Cheney Train's 'The Complete Mysteries of Mr.

The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice.

This book explores the challenges that international law faces in curtailing human rights violations arising from mineral exploitation.

El acuerdo de paz colombiano con la guerrilla de las FARC buscó poner fin a cincuenta años de guerra y le valió al presidente Juan Manuel Santos el Premio Nobel de Paz.

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality.