Peace studies and conflict resolution

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 introduces a new and original sociological conceptualization of compromise after conflict and is based on six-years of study amongst victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka, with case studies from Sierra Leone and Colombia.

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 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 volume analyzes crises in International Relations (IR) in an innovative way.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

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.

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

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.

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 contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools for bridging the diverse cultures and, consequently, for solving many of the conflicts of today's world, characterized by a dynamic interchange of populations with very diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

What are the causes of war?

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence.

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 explores the challenges of combating terrorism from a policing perspective using the example of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC (RUC) in Northern Ireland.

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda.

This book contributes to key debates in peacebuilding by exploring the role of theatre and art in general.

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

In the years since the September 11th 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda phenomenon has become one of the most written about, yet crucially misunderstood, threats of the 21st century.

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This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country.

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

Two decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) still faces a weak national identity and ethnic and religious divisions that are further preventing the country from reaching sustainable peace and development.

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

This book discusses the many legal aspects arising in relation to the maintenance of peace in Africa.

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.

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This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources.

"e;Undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis of the role of culture and emergent practices in capacity building currently at hand.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book comprehensively gathers the current academic literature, field expertise and artistic developments on Wolfgang Dietrich's Many Peaces theory, in the ways it has been conceptualized and practiced by peace and conflict workers around the world.

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

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 interdisciplinary discussion of conflict studies, drawing on perspectives from psychology and Buddhist studies.

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 sheds new light on the security challenges for failed states posed by violent non-state armed actors (VNSAs).

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

This Brief revisits and extends Epstein's classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories.

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

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 examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states.

This edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization.

This volume calls for an empirical extension of the "e;local turn"e; within peace research.

This book offers a critical review of higher education and post-conflict recovery.

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

This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding.

This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: "e;the suspended now"e;.