Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book is designed to present a fully developed theory of international crisis and conflict, along with substantial evidence of these two closely related phenomena.

This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession.

This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland.

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

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.

This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow's decades' long research on conflict management and resolution.

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups.

This book explores the gendered history of the Troubles, the rise of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and the role of community development as a new field in Northern Ireland.

This volume examines Lebanon's post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations.

This edited collection explores how East Asia's painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples.

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 edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion.

This book presents the protracted right to self-determination conflict between the Philippine state and the Bangsamoro group in Mindanao, Philippines.

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa.

This book argues that the existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict has so far failed to take into account the role of socio-cultural disparities among belligerents.

This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa.

This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West.

This book provides a detailed analysis of Russia's 'great power identity' and the role of Europe in forming this identity.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

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

This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves 'neutral' to Colombia's internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Uraba.

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order.

This book asks how independent commissions helped to overcome difficulties during the implementation phase of the Good Friday Agreement.

This book explores a critical question: in the wake of identity-based violence, what can internal and international peacebuilders do to help "e;deeply divided societies"e; rediscover a sense of living together?

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

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This book explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973 War.

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 identifies a gap in peacebuilding theory and practice in terms of sensitivity to trauma and its impact on the survivors of war and other mass violence.

This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them.

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Beatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination.

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs.

This book offers an unprecedented account of the Serb Democratic Party's origins and its political machinations that culminated in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

This book offers an unprecedented account of the Serb Democratic Party's origins and its political machinations that culminated in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

This book examines changes in Taiwan's policies toward Mainland China under former Republic of China (ROC) President Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16) and considers their implications for US policy toward the Taiwan Strait.

This book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict.

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.

In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza.