Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction breaks new ground in the history of the novel by revealing both the persistent influence of popular culture and of an older, patrician model of social relations. Bowen demonstrates that this...

Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. Too frequently analyses have neglected to study the wider changes that have occurred inside and outside Northern Ireland. These...

Late modern wars are legitimized through invocations of humanity; variously the rescue and protection of populations, the re-shaping of entire societies, and the re-constitution of the sphere of the international into a pacified cosmopolitan arena...

How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards...

The Puzzle of Peace moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system. The authors track the rise of peace as a new phenomenon in...

Christa Meniers-DeTroy wrote the stories contained in Remembering...Years of Hiding Behind Silence over ten years. Yet, her story started in 1947 when she moved to Brunswick to be a part of the Bowdoin community surrounding her husband and other World...

This book introduces a comprehensive and integrative collection of psychological intergroup interventions. These evidence-based interventions are scientifically established and tested in several real-world contexts of intergroup animosities and tensions,...

Le 'Projet de Paix Perpétuelle' est une proposition ambitieuse proposée par Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre et soutenue par Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Les auteurs y proposent un plan pour mettre fin aux conflits entre les nations européennes. Cette...

In an age of conflict and division, the need for peace and unity has never been greater. This inspiring book offers a powerful and moving collection of essays, speeches, and other writings on the theme of peace, drawn from a wide range of voices across...

This book is a collection of essays on the themes of war and peace, written by some of the most influential thinkers and activists of the Twentieth Century. It covers a wide range of topics, including the causes of war, the benefits of peace, the role of...

This book is an introduction to the principles and practices of the peace movement. It provides a historical overview of the movement, as well as a discussion of its current goals and strategies.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

A powerful plea for peace and understanding in times of conflict, this book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the complex issues that plague our society. Kehler draws on his extensive knowledge of international relations and political history to...

This groundbreaking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between military power and national prosperity. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, the author argues that the idea that military strength translates into economic...

Thirty outstanding scholars write about the etymological meaning, the religious, legal and political use of the word peace. This gives astonishing insights into classical notions and hardly known interpretations of peace in their cultures. The result is...

Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity examines the role of Indonesia’s first truth and reconciliation commission—the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh—in investigating and redressing the extensive human rights violations committed...

Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity. The hybridity concept has been embraced by scholars and practitioners in response to the social and...

War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomena. That does not mean we cannot understand how to prevent...

This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive...

Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem...

Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation...

This study is available in paperback for the first time. At no time in Northern Ireland's history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region's conflict. Using archival...

Politics and peace in Northern Ireland analyses the complex and contradictory process of implementing the Good Friday Agreement. Using the lens of security dilemma theory, it begins with an original overview of the conflict, the Agreement and post-1998...