Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Is it ever possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the experience of both practitioners and researchers, this book is an...

War termination reflects a civil-military bargain and affects relevant decisions made by political leaders. For the leader embroiled in protracted ...

The post-Cold War world allows space for less powerful states to develop influential roles in responding to specific international problems. Norway...

Economic forces play a major role in the outbreak and perpetuation of violence, but they also hold the key for positive change. Using a non-technic...

Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process. This study, based on detailed fieldwork, looks at the w...

This book examines Israels relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day Wa...

The divisive and malleable nature of history is at its most palpable in situations of intractable conflict between nations or peoples. This book ex...

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has i...

This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for su...

Under which conditions do democracies participate in war, and when do they abstain? Providing a unique theoretical framework, Mello identifies path...

Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa. Yet, people take actions not because of statistical data on inequalities, of...

The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to ...

As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic clea...

The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international pol...

This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, ...

Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electo...

Sebastián explores the experience of statebuilding and constitution making after violent conflict, using the failed reform of Dayton in Bosnia and ...

This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determ...

Jina Kim investigates how North Korea rationalized its pursuit of nuclear weapons programs for more than two decades, by exploring the dialectical ...

Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the process...

Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends that in the information age diplo...

WHEN IT COMES TO VIOLENCE, HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR? Fighting for Peace is for every parent, student, and leader uncomfortable with violence as the 'ne...

The book examines principal arguments for and against the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and 'targeted killing.' Addressing both ...

Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civ...