Peace studies and conflict resolution

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.

This book analyzes U.

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;.

This groundbreaking volume explores the concept of self-censorship as it relates to individuals and societies and functions as a barrier to peace.

In Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath, a common thread is the authors' path through the time and space context in which fieldwork has taken place.

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 volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations.

This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement.

The book presents a novel analytical perspective on Indonesia's security policies during its transition to democracy.

This volume is a collection of contributions by world-leading experts in the nuclear field who participated in the educational activities of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO).

This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads.

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa's regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries.

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social development of the Arab Spring.

This book is a critical comparative reflection of the post-colonial conflict Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa.

This book evaluates the potential for the transformative mediation framework to be adopted in a non-western context.

The book surveys comparative power sharing models implemented in societies that have faced identity-conflicts, with attention given to post-conflict design.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

This book presents a comprehensive historical account of sociology in Israel the first history of sociology in Israel, from its beginnings in late 19th-century to the early 21st-century.

This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

This book reveals the nature of Sino-US strategic competition by examining the influence exerted by major secondary stakeholders, e.

This book examines Australia's and the United States' ability to prosecute their peacekeepers for sexual exploitation and abuse.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict.