This volume explores the complex interrelation between risk, identity and conflictand focuses specifically on ethnicity, culture, religion and gender as modes ofidentity that are often associated with conflict in the contemporary world.
This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.
This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold.
The book discusses India's evolving deterrent force posturing in South Asia under the conceptual essentials of nuclear revolution when it comes to various combinations of conventional and nuclear forces development and the strategic implications it intentionally or unintentionally poses for the South Asian region.
This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
This book analyzes energy security through the lens of oil and natural gas and explains how geopolitics and security challenges affect India's quest for energy security.
This book examines the history of the Palestinian Left by focusing on the trajectory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during its declining phase.
This book addresses the human civilizational ethos and explores the concept of the nonkilling paradigm concerning human dignity, human rights, affirmative nonkilling, positive peace and the advancement of human existence.
This book analyses social conflict among fishers in Indonesia by implementing class theory, thus adopting a new approach to analysing fishers' conflicts in Indonesia.
This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of suicide research in the discipline and argues that the leading cause of violent death worldwide is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be fully comprehended as a significant and often preventable form of world-wide violence.
This book is devoted to taking a lead in establishing a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary platform for exchanging fresh thinking in the field of strategic studies.
This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future.
The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place.
This book critically examines the possible dilution of the neutrality principle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in internal armed conflicts.
This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification.
This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory.
This book, Rising from the Ashes: UN Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste, provides an in-depth look into the UN's first experiment in governing and building peace in the aftermath of conflict, using East Timor as a case study.
Focusing on Mostar, a city in Bosnia Herzegovina that became the epitome of ethnic divisions during the Yugoslav wars, this cutting edge book considers processes of violent partitioning in cities.
This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe's policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of 'proactive contribution to peace'.
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 examines classical and modern interpretations of education in the context of contemporary Okinawa as a site of neoliberal military-industrial development.
This text provides a comprehensive re-examination of post-World War II Sino-Japanese relations, focusing notably on Chinese premier Zhou Enlai's foreign policy toward Japan.
En un pais como Colombia, donde se ha mantenido latente un grave conflicto politico, social y armado, la paz es una necesidad imperiosa; pero no se trata de una paz cualquiera, sino de una de caracter directa como por los efectos inherentes a otras formas de violencia indirectas o encubiertas.
El libro Análisis ideológico de los discursos del proceso de paz en Colombia (2012-2016) hace un recorrido interpretativo por los cientos de palabras que se cruzaron entre los representantes del gobierno de Juan Manuel Santos, incluido él mismo y los voceros de las Farc, a lo largo del Proceso de Paz desarrollado entre 2012 y 2016.
Las paces construidas desde los territorios son resultado de la interacción entre los procesos de reconocimiento/alineamiento estatal, de la presencia de los actores violentos y de las dinámicas de autonomía local.
Rutas del Conflicto, el medio periodístico que ha desarrollado el proyecto "Yo Sobreviví", busca facilitar el acceso a información confiable sobre el conflicto armado en Colombia.
Con esta nueva publicación, muy en el espíritu de nuestro Grupo de estudios interdisciplinario sobre paz, conflicto y posconflicto (JANUS), marcamos el acento sobre un hecho fundamental: cómo cualquier proceso político, económico, social y aún afectivo, la paz tiene sus olvidos y olvidados.