Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniqu...

This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations how wars are ended. The volume draws on the direct experience of b...

This book presents a new approach for studying peace beyond the absence of war. As war ends, the varying nature of the peace that ensues has been t...

This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory. Interventions are a performance o...

Reconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examin...

The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well a...

The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stay Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution t...

This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises climate change, crime-war ca...

Whos Afraid of ISIS? eschews familiar debates about the status of ISIS as an existential threat to the West, with the aim of submitting those types...

States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money shou...

States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money shou...

The Other Karen in Myanmar looks at the other or quiet minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance org...

The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about ...

In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an epistemic...

Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a w...

Unlike the vast majority of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, John Fleming was a young Black man who was assigned to an all-white agricultura...

Coming in the wake of momentous changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Germany and the movement for democracy in China, Celebrating Peace pre...

In The Costs of Justice, Brian K. Grodsky provides qualitative analyses of how transitional justice processes have evolved in diverse ways in postc...

The Catholic Case against War demonstrates how the Catholic mantra Never again war! reflects a set of powerfully realistic teachings on war and pea...

The Catholic Case against War demonstrates how the Catholic mantra Never again war! reflects a set of powerfully realistic teachings on war and pea...

Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, a...

One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by t...

Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Stu...

What do Buddhism and Islam have in common? And what positive characteristics might Buddhist Japan and Muslim Indonesia be able to offer one another...

The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Afric...

While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or...

Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda int...

Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda int...

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their...

How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persis...

This book examines the nature of conflict in Africa vis-à-vis the African Union (AU) peace and security architecture in Africa. It focuses on the i...

The book dismantles prevalent misconceptions surrounding Indigenous peoples epistemologies on peace, arguing that the peace epistemologies which In...