Peace studies and conflict resolution

Looking at a variety of armament sectors, the book examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the fields of armament and arms control, how existing arms control measures will be affected by AI, and what new approaches based on AI have been or are currently developed.

This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.

This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime.

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis.

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts.

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.

This book analyses three major themes: decolonization, sovereignty, and peacekeeping.

This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed.

This book is an introduction to the basics of Bosnian political structure, institutions, and political processes.

This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines.

"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.

This book discusses the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters.

This book offers an original and theoretically rich examination into the dynamics of alliances that great powers and weak states form to defeat threats, such as rebellion or insurgency, within the smaller state's borders.

At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness such atrocities as committed by the Nazi regime.

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women's rights.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the US intervention in Lebanon in 1982 and the decision-making drivers that led the Reagan Administration into the Lebanese Civil War.

This book focuses on water disputes in New Zealand: a country where such conflicts are assumed to be non-existing.

This book examines the geopolitical shifts triggered by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine from February 2022 onwards.

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state's fast track land reform programme.

The book analyses the management of the internal displacement caused by activities of Boko Haram's terrorist insurgence in Nigeria.

This timely book offers a comprehensive examination of the current state of nuclear stability postures worldwide, effectively highlighting their inherent limitations.

Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict?

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.

This book rewrites the history of Christian peace ethics.

For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion.

This book begins from a critical account of the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war, tracing themes of nationalism, discourse and conflict memory through this period of immense violence and into its aftermath.

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This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder.

This book examines the sanction regimes imposed by the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations against Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed.

The study provides an extensive legal, geopolitical and historical analysis of all controversial issues making up the Greek-Turkish maritime dispute: the delimitation of territorial waters, the national airspace, the delineation of exclusive economic zones and continental shelf as well as the issue of military presence on the Eastern Aegean islands and its relation to the Greek sovereignty over them.

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