Peace studies and conflict resolution

This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.

Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe.

This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations.

The book examines the failures and some of the successes of Africa in its efforts to transform into a society where human security or development in the broadest sense is achieved.

The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 1930-1975 and how U.

This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.

This book introduces the four principal sets of institutions that engage in bringing peace and relief to societies mired in violent conflicts and humanitarian crises-the United Nations and other international bodies; non-governmental organizations; civilian government agencies; and militaries.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy.

This book provides the first detailed examination of the role played by former loyalist and republican prisoners in grass roots conflict transformation work in the Northern Ireland peace process.

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Lithuanian foreign policy by employing the theory of small states and the agent-perspective to assess how President Dalia Grybauskaite impacted Lithuanian foreign policy in 2009-2019 and which, in turn, could affect changes in international structures.

This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Technology has always played a central role in international politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and compete during peacetime.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the Taliban, and how it has affected post-9/11 U.

Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly.

South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011.

Written for neonatal and pediatric nurse practitioner students, Fetal and Neonatal Physiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse explores the developmental physiology of premature and term infants and presents common diseases that affect this specialized population.

The last two decades have seen the remarkable rise to dominance of human-centred understandings of the world.

This book shows the “deception by omission” used at the United Nations to gain backing for Jewish statehood in Palestine.

Explaining the connection between economics and violent extremism, this book argues that American foreign policy must be rebalanced with a greater emphasis on social inclusion and shared prosperity in order to mitigate the root causes of conflict.

Restorative justice aims to address the consequences of crime by encouraging victims and offenders to communicate and discuss the harm caused by the crime that has been committed.

Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of 'resistance'.

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.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

What motivates individuals to take up arms against their government?

This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

 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.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace.

An evidence-based analysis of governance focusing on the institutional capacities and qualities that reduce the risk of armed conflict.

First published in 1978, Crime and Penal Policy is primarily addressed to non-professional people interested in criminal law and the penal system, such as magistrates, prison visitors, and anyone accused or convicted of criminal offences.

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.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

This book investigates the road map or the transitional justice mechanisms that theEthiopian government chose to confront the gross human rights violations perpetratedunder the 17 years' rule of the Derg, the dictatorial regime that controlled state powerfrom 1974 to 1991.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law, criminology and criminal justice.

This book critically examines the security-development nexus through an analysis of organised crime responses in post-conflict states.

The transition from war to peace is fraught with tension and the risk of a return to bloodshed.

This book aims to build bridges to peace by spanning the fields of conflict resolution and traditional peace studies, and by facing the contending perspectives of academics and practitioners.

Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this timely and much-needed critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

Effective Threat Management: A Primer presents the ABCs for identifying, assessing, and managing potentially violent individuals.