Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

The myths of peace and democracy in Africa are at the heart of this volume. Democracy and peace have become buzz words across postcolonial Africa. The gospel of democracy and peace is preached by national governments and by civil society and...

As societies across the globe rethink and often discard the institutions of marriage and religion, interfaith marriages continue to grow in number. These unions, usually committed to seeing past the traditional sectarian labels, often struggle when the...

The contributions of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), one of the most profound and original thinkers of the twentieth century, span several disciplines in the humanities--history, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, religion--although his work is...

This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars.Since the end of World War II, civil wars have been characterized by extremely high numbers of civilian...

This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts. Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are...

The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa's media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced information, particularly during election processes.Reporting...

This book offers a detailed study of the psycho-politics of governmental manipulation, in which a vulnerable population is disciplined by contorting their sense of self-worth.In many conflict settings, a nation's government exerts its dominance over a...

Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).The IDP phenomenon remains less understood than that of refugees due to the...

This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars.There is no standard model of peace processes and all will vary according to the context, type of conflict, timing, national and global...

This book examines the use of third-party mediation in conflict resolution, and uses a rational method to analyse two case studies of long-term international conflicts.

This book offers a detailed exploration of three examples of humanitarian uses of new technology, employing key theoretical insights from Foucault.We are currently seeing a humanitarian turn to new digital technologies, such as biometrics, remote...

This book examines the dynamics of security provision in international interventions in post-conflict states.It focuses on how international security interventions - such as Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes, Security Sector...

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""Java Or How To Manage A Colony V2"" is a book written by J. W. B. Money in 1861. It presents a practical solution to the questions affecting British India at that time. The book focuses on the management of a colony, particularly Java, and provides...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad, in early 2004. As information became available revealing that the war in Iraq was based on lies, she began speaking out against it and demanding the troops come...

What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr...

Die Menschheit steht vor einer großen Herausforderung. Sie muss sich neu erfinden und lernen, wie sie nachhaltig in einer gemeinsamen Welt leben kann. Das erfordert vor allem eines: das Wissen darüber, wie sie das erlernen und folglich tun kann.Ausgehend...

In recent years, a burgeoning literature has explored the strategic advantages of using nonviolent resistance to achieve positive political outcomes, such as regime change and democratization. Yet, despite one-fifth of largescale nonviolent campaigns...

You have big dreams and yearn to live a purposeful life, but it’s hard to stay inspired in today’s polarized world. The headlines make you want to dive under the covers and the discord threatens your faith in humanity. Climate change,...

The view that America and Russia have burned their candles on security cooperation with respect to nuclear weapons is simply mistaken. This timely study identifies twelve themes or issue areas that must be addressed by the United States and Russia if...

It's time to reconnect with the beautiful dream of Universal Peace, Love and Harmony from the Summer of Love! What happened to the wonderful dream of peace, love and harmony from 1967? Where have all the Flower Children gone? What happened to the dream...

This book is a collection of articles and essays by Professor Herbert C. Kelman, a leading figure in the conflict resolution community and one of the most influential peace researchers.Professor Kelman, a social psychologist, has been a pioneer of...

This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies.It introduces 'peace figuration' as a new analytical framework for studying the intentionality, performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The...

This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political...

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. These attacks became the rationale for the US's Global War on Terror (GWOT). The centrality of...

This book examines the history of the Palestinian Left by focusing on the trajectory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during its declining phase. Relying on a substantial corpus of primary sources, this study illustrates how...

This book examines Japan's nuclear identity and its implications for abolition of nuclear weapons. By applying analytical eclecticism in combination with international relations theory, this book categorizes Japan's nuclear identity as a 'nuclear-bombed...

This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory. In its analysis, the book argues that security dilemmas in...

This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of 'insecurities' that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the...

The book aims to continue and expand the conversations emerging from the margins of peace studies about race and racism, and their implications for the field. Especially drawing from the often-overlooked African diasporic critical and philosophical...

The purpose of this book is to raise awareness of injustice for all races. It encourages people to see a person beyond what they look like and to stop discrimination, alienation, and unjust acts, it encourages self-reflection, looking at your own actions...

In "Der Völkermord in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo: Die vergessene Tragödie ans Licht bringen" werden endlich die unsagbaren Schrecken eines der verheerendsten und am meisten übersehenen Konflikte der modernen Geschichte ans Licht gebracht. Dieses...

En El genocidio en la República Democrática del Congo: Desvelando la tragedia olvidada, por fin salen a la luz los horrores inconfesables de uno de los conflictos más devastadores y pasados por alto de la historia moderna. Este libro de gran alcance y...

This book is a valuable contribution to the peace history literature and defines India's place in the world.

The author, in this book has analysed the role of Islam in the Transformation of Social, Political and Economic structure of Iran post Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Warum weisen Länder mit muslimischer Bevölkerungsmehrheit im Vergleich zum Weltdurchschnitt ein niedriges Maß an Demokratie und sozioökonomischer Entwicklung auf? Dieses Buch kritisiert Erklärungen, die den Islam als Ursache dieser Ungleichheit anführen,...

Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick zu einer Politikdidaktik für den Frieden. Es veranschaulicht theoretische Grundlagen, Friedenskonzepte und Friedenstheorien und enthält aktuelle Diskurse zum politischen Lernen und der Vermittlung von...

This textbook deals with the Middle East conflict as a key element of international relations. The origins of the conflict and its international dimensions, the major Israeli-Arab wars, attempts at a solution, peace plans and visions for the future are...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - War and Peace, Military, grade: 2,0, Management Center Innsbruck (Nonprofit-, Sozial-, & Gesundheitsmanagement), language: English, abstract: The achievement of relative peace in Northern...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - War and Peace, Military, grade: 83%, University of Southampton, language: English, abstract: In 2006 the EU launched its first autonomous military operation under Chapter VII of the UN Charter...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Truppenführung (TF) 1910 kannte den Begriff der Gefechtsart noch nicht. Es werden lediglich der Angriff und die...

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Mit 1963 andauernde Zypern-Konflikt hat durch die jüngsten Ereignisse wieder an Aktualität gewonnen. Zypern ist seit der türkischen...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Führen im Gefecht kann bedeuten: Führen durch Kommando, also mit vorgeschriebenen Wortlaut, das ein bis in die...

This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict.  The expansion of knowledge across disciplines and the increasingly blurred boundaries in...

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an...