Peace studies and conflict resolution

This volume examines the complex role of international education exchange in promoting peace and intercultural understanding.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding violence and violent conflict using complexity and network theories, borrowed from the natural sciences, together with social network analysis.

This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict.

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus.

On the occasion of his 90th birthday Louis Kriesberg provides an informative account of his career, tracing the trajectory of his discoveries, contributions, and stumbles as he sought to help the advance toward a more sustainable and just peace in the world.

This book responds to the reality that children and youth constitute a disproportionately large percentage of displaced populations worldwide.

This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon.

This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

As the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles approaches, this book presents the pre-1914 precursors to the interwar naval arms treaties arising from the peace of 1919, providing a fresh perspective on arms control efforts through an interdisciplinary approach.

This book examines the history of "e;the Troubles"e; in Northern Ireland in the 1970s-1990s and compares it with the situation in the Gaza Strip.

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with.

This book analyses the global visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt, European social democratic statesmen who earned international esteem for their contributions to global developments during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse.

This book is about the convergence of two problems: the ongoing realities of conflict and forced migration in Africa's Great Lakes region, and the crisis of citizenship and belonging.

This book examines the continuing US commitments to NATO in the post-Cold War era.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South.

This book is the first full-spectrum analysis of Russian and European norms of political action, ranging from international law, ethics, and strategy, to the specific norms for the use of force.

Thisbook analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examiningits military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media.

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association's Ecology and Peace Commission: M.

Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective, the present book offers peer-reviewed texts that build on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this concept to global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene.

This book develops a theoretical and empirical argument about the disintegration of security communities, and the subsequent breakdown of stable peace among nations, through a process of norm degeneration.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War.

This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

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

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.

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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.