Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

This vintage book contains a fascinating history of aviation, being a detailed exploration of its development and utility in peace and in war. This fantastic volume contains a wealth of information on the evolution of flying, and it is highly recommended...

This antiquarian book contains extracts form Gandhi's writings and speeches bearing on non-violence. The aim of this book is to present the gist of his teachings in so far they are relevant to those practicing pacifism. Accordingly, the emphasis is laid...

基督教对世界和平作出了重大贡献。通过组织、宗教间对话、社区声明等，基督教在一个支持性的世界中运作，并允许其他人参与，从而创造世界和平。基督教的追随者使用新约来指导他们如何和谐地度过他们的生活。作为和平的典范，耶稣基督在新约中被描绘为提倡非暴力并成为和平典范的人。一个人首先必须在精神上保持平静，才能表达他内心平静的感觉。非暴力、正义、和解和同情的基督教原则可以在新约中找到。他们可以通过新约和旧约中的耶稣基督的教导来做到这一点。对这种宗教有很多错误的批评，将其暴露为暴力的根源和谈论和平的宗教。圣经关于非暴力、...

Europe has undergone quite profound changes since the end of the Cold War. Having been a highly militarised, conflict-ridden and war-ridden region, the core of Europe today constitutes a security community where armed conflicts among the constituent...

This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts...

This book shows that political narratives can promote or thwart the prospects for international cooperation and are major factors in international negotiation processes in the 21st century.In a world that is experiencing waves of right-wing and left-wing...

The leader of the free world needs a woman head of state-but a particularwoman-with the intellect and presence of mind to ponder action with an eyeon the future; a human-centeredness capable of respecting difference andenvisioning peaceful cooperation...

Why do nations go to war? Is war an institutionalized outlet for our aggressive instincts? Or is it a cultural invention rather than a biological necessity?Originally published in 1990, Eric Carlton, looking across a number of societies investigates why...

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contributors engage deeply with the legacies of colonialism,...

 "Legacy Of Human Rights " is a convincing investigation of the immortal battle for major opportunities that have molded the course of history. In this wise and provocative book, the account unfurls from the perspective of essential minutes,...

The world has been baffled and troubled by the Israel-Palestine conflict for many years. It stands for one of the longest-running and most intricate disputes of our day, one that has eluded settlement and given rise to a wide range of feelings and...

The field of civil resistance is dedicated to understanding how people can fight for rights, freedom, and justice, without the use of violence. This glossary provides definitions and expansive commentary on civil resistance terminology to support sharing...

Extracts from Walk for Peace:‘The recent YouGov Opinion Poll found that the Chinese were the most optimistic people in the    world, with 41% responding to say they thought that the world was getting better and 33% responding to say...

The African continent has experienced too many violent conflicts leading to much loss of life, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of productive socio-economic activity, displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and the diversion of scarce...

US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the...

"Having observed earlier periods of determined, persistent, creative and wise American diplomacy on the Arab-Israeli conflict, we are left to ponder whether that kind of American leadership and diplomatic wisdom can be recaptured. We also are left...

On the night of August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on national television and stated that American destroyers in the gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by North Vietnamese forces. The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angles Times...

As a collection, this edited volume underscores the communicative nature of conflict transformation and peacebuilding in particular, and engaged scholarship, in general. The collection also reveals tensions in doing engaged scholarship that are...

In this powerful essay, Shumaker argues that the only way to achieve true peace in the world is through a radical transformation of our social and economic systems. Drawing on the wisdom of great spiritual and political leaders, he offers a compelling...

DISCERNMENT is the ability to grasp the inward character and relationship of things, especially when obscure, leading to keen insight and judgment. This workshop manual identifies an ecology of discernment practices that create public cultures of peace...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

'I am nearly insane .... I cannot take much more.' Dennis O'Donnell enlisted when he was balloted into National Service in 1967, but, like others, was sickened by the training. When his application for exemption as a conscientious objector was rejected...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a...

This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald...

This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict. The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are discussed as an existent problem assumed to be an inevitable part of human...

Why are some societies more violent than others? This book uses a novel approach to this dilemma by studying how violence breeds more violence in societies with experience of civil war. It unpacks the relationships between political violence, social...

Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence...

An exploration of Immanuel Kant's account of war and the controversies that have arisen from its interpretation. This book brings the ideas of Kant's critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what...

As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars. This book is based on nine years of research, and more than 100...

This book brings together academics and politicians to debate the intellectual roots of the ideas that currently drive the main UK political parties. With major players responding to the arguments raised in each chapter, the book will be a mustread for...

Much is known about the media's role in conflict, but far less about the media's role in peace. Graham Spencer's groundbreaking study, now available in paperback,addresses this deficiency by providing a comparative analysis of the reporting of conflicts...

Was ist Krieg? Diese Frage ist im 21. Jahrhundert nicht mehr im territorialen Sinn zu beantworten. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 ist klar, dass sich die globale Sicherheitslage entscheidend verändert hat. Der „Feind" ist keine Nation mehr, er ...

Literature Review from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: B, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: In this review, I compare federalist and neo-functionalist literature on crisis...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 2,7, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit dem Thema und der Fragestellung „Der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, Note: 1,3, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Gender and Diversity - European and Middle Eastern...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Kerninteresse dieser...

On January 6th, 2021, the vice president of the most powerful country in the world hid in a parking garage surrounded by his security detail while thousands of protestors, some with homemade guillotines with his name on them, entered the U.S. Capitol...