Peace studies and conflict resolution

European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages.

Offering an introduction to clanism and tribalism in the Gulf of Aden area, Dr Lewis uses these concepts to analyse security in Yemen, Somalia, Somaliland and the broader region.

The book takes the reader into the world of women who become actively involved in various mobilization processes in the peace and conflict situations in Chiapas and in Northern Ireland.

This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone.

Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are '.

This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills.

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002.

This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour.

In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic.

This book analyzes the failure of the EU's peace-through-trade policy in Iraq and Iran between 1979 and 2009 from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

This book examines Israel's relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day War to the Labour Party's electoral defeat in 1977.

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers.

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval?

In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace.

The post-Cold War world allows space for less powerful states to develop influential roles in responding to specific international problems.

Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process.

What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution?

This study examines the African Union's peacekeeping role in managing African conflicts.

This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narratives about Russia's rightful place in the world.

How does ideology in some states radicalise to such an extent as to become genocidal?

This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983.

Under which conditions do democracies participate in war, and when do they abstain?

This book argues that understanding truces is crucial for our ability to wind down wars.

For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan.

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

The book examines principal arguments for and against the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and 'targeted killing.

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East.

This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight into how they may be better contained.

EU foreign policy has long been considered the exclusive domain of member states.

This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners to assess the processes, institutions and outcomes of the EU's collective diplomatic engagement in the fields of security, human rights, trade and finance and environmental politics.

As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed.

In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic.

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland.

This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation.

Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa.

An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management.

The book analyses the changing roles of international agencies, governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and local communities around major road-building environmental impact assessment processes in order to examine whether the influence of the European Union has transformed environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Serbia.

This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants.

Tannam focuses on the role of bureaucracies when dealing with conflict in two international organisations, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), providing a unique comparative account of their policy-making procedures.

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.

Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts.

McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.

This study investigates the role of youth in peacebuilding, and addresses the failure of states and existing research to recognise youths as political actors, which can result in their contribution to peacebuilding being ignored.

Non-violent movements, under figures like Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, led to some of the great social changes of the 20th century, and some argue it offers solutions for this century's problems.

The IRA's ability to exploit the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was central to the organisation's capacity to wage its 'Long War' over a quarter of a century.

An exploration of why and how peace has gradually mitigated intense conflict in the Asia-Pacific region, this volume draws on case studies and multivariate quantitative analysis to test theories of peace and conflict regarding the region.