Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

This book advances an holistic conceptualisation of maritime security, under the term Blue Security, and situates it in states across the Indo-Paci...

This book adopts a sociolegal and interdisciplinary approach to examine how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been understood within the Asso...

Systemic thinking in peacebuilding This is the first comprehensive publication analysing the value added by integrating systemic thinking and peac...

This book revisits and interrogates the evolution of the Responsibility to Protect in search of the root cause of R2Ps failure to date.Employing a ...

The Handbook introduces to readers (accessibly for specialist and non-specialist scholars, students and layman audiences) the diverse universe of n...

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector. Using a framework b...

This open access book investigates the gendered violence and vulnerabilities experienced by Rohingya men and women, drawing on qualitative data fro...

This book raises questions about cultural interventions, an area of investigation somewhat overlooked in place of developing a critique of politica...

This book examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EUs Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).When the Maastricht Treaty e...

Through the lens of readiness theory, this book focuses on elements that determine the success and failure in negotiating peace agreements in intra...

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recove...

The Minds of Peace Experiment is a small-scale Israeli-Palestinian public negotiating congress. The exercise invites Israeli and Palestinian delega...

This book describes womens efforts as agents for change in Myanmar and examines the potential of the peace process as an opportunity for womens emp...

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate that when the status quo is ...

This volume presents essential aspects of Mediterranean politics to be reconsidered in the light of the Arab upheavals since 2010. Taking as its fo...

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representa...

This book brings together a variety of innovative perspectives on the inclusion of gender in the governance of (counter-)terrorism and violent extr...

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. Although the nature and politic...

This edited collection examines the British way in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgenc...

This book offers a timely and critical reflection on how states have responded to the test of terrorism in the long shadow of 9/11. Terrorism has b...

This book opens up the discussion of the interrelation between terrorism studies, and peace and conflict studies. Even though it is often accepted ...

This book analyzes the factors that drive Boko Harams violence, arguing that the movement is rooted in the historical and religious context of west...

This multi-disciplinary book conceptualizes, maps, and analyses ongoing standardization processes of risk issues across various sectors, processes,...