Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Lov...

In this book, eleven leading theorists debate the normative challenges of preventive war through the lens of important public and political issues ...

Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict wi...

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, h...

Many pressing environmental and security threats now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers. From climate change and cyb...

The exposure of two senior republicans as informers for British intelligence in 2005 led to a popular perception that the IRA had 'lost' the intell...

Ending humanitarian atrocities has become as important for the United Nations as preventing interstate war. This book examines the transformation o...

What does it take for warnings about violent conflict and war to be listened to, believed and acted upon? Why are warnings from some sources notice...

Offers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace' dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both peace and accounta...

Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent con...

Achieving security and development in the post-conflict era is a challenge with which stakeholders have to grapple. While stakeholders are quick to...

The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development fr...

This book documents recent and historical events in the theoretically-based practice of peace development. Its diverse collection of essays describ...

While featuring field-based examples in multiple disciplines, including political science, anthropology, communication, psychology, sociology, law ...

This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new compre...

Based on interview material with a wide range of Protestant clergy in Northern Ireland, this book examines how Protestant identity impacts on the p...

Case-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation. This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our ti...

To understand how Albert Einsteins pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy ins...

This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twent...

A detailed examination of the role of two critical non-state groups in the Liberian Civil War peace process - the diaspora and the religious - that...

Unfortunately, much of what people believe about war in space has been shaped, or misshaped, by Hollywood and other forms of popular media. In this...

Traces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions ...

Israel's relations with the European Union stretch back to the early days of the European Community and the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. ...

Globally, where faith and political processes share the public space with indigenous populations, religious leaders of tolerant voice, who desire t...

In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considerin...

This new paperback edition of Justifying Interventions in Africa includes a new preface written by Professor Annika Björkdahl from Lund University....

Amid an array of shifting national, regional, and global forces, how have African insurgents managed to adapt and survive? And what differences and...

This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. ...

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attem...

Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance. On 3 September 198...

SDG16 recognises the need to respond to challenges to build a peaceful and just world. In the context of a transforming global community that is in...

This book should be read by all practitioners and serious students of national security as the guide for avoiding failures and miscalculations in u...

Peacebuilding serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencie...

Based on twenty-five years of fieldwork, Rural Womens Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development examine...