Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Following the first volume of its Handbook for Conflict Transformation in 2004, Berghof Conflict Research (Berlin) now presents Volume II. This edi...

Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the worlds most turbulent regions has become the new global im...

The American public has expressed increasing alarm over incidents of multiple casualty violence. While the law enforcement community has progressed...

This book is about the games that Great Powers play. Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era have been in Africa, and ...

In this lucid and timely new book, Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict h...

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revo...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

This book provides insights into the economic, global and social challenges of peace in today''''s world. It also explores the nature of contempora...

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.Illustrated by examples from naval and...

From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai ...

What types of threats and conflicts affect the countries of South America? What roles can and should states and regional organisations play in main...

Seeking to expand the transformative aspect of conflict resolution, the contributors to this edited collection have focused on gathering scholar...

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together na...

This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations. It investigates the process of negotiati...

President Trump threatens North Korea with `fire and fury like the world has never seen', whilst fellow Republican John McCain warns that the count...

This introduction to peace education and yogic science provides a good toolkit to help bring contemplative peacebuilding (efforts to stop harm) ...

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly''s book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant ...

CJ Hinke was arrested in more than 35 civil disobedience actions organized by the pacifist movement from 1963 to 1969.  He was the last American ar...

This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related...

Over the past three decades or more, the international community has been forced to negotiate agreements aimed at solving global problems of greate...

What is the peacekeeper's role in the 21st century? Peacekeeping, peace enforcement and 'stability operations' ask soldiers to use violence to crea...

The dynamics of religion, tribalism, oil and ideology have always been dominant in Libya, which is trying to establish a new order in the political...

''Enthralling'' PHILIP PULLMAN''Such a hopeful book'' ELIZABETH DAY''GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world'' RUTGER BR...

Two of the world''s most dangerous flashpoints, this edited volume with contributions by leading scholars offers a comprehensive evaluation and com...

Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models moves away from negative connotations associated with the concept of post-confli...

A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of warIn this millennium, we have become war weary. F...

This book discusses research on civil wars. Chapter One focuses on conceptual and methodological grounding of the synergetic approach to mental imm...

Think, don't fight.In todays world we use an out of date thinking system to navigate our way through modern society, especially when it comes to co...

Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Ha...

For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and ...