Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Building on the success of previous editions, Politics in the Republic of Ireland continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects...

This book is about the peaceful resolution (PR) of territorial and maritime disputes and states' strategic behavior vis-à-vis methods of peaceful r...

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a soci...

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume p...

Sadomasochism, Popular Culture and Revolt: A Pornography of Violence explores powerful connections between violent pornography and current gender w...

Survival, the IISSs bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of th...

This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies.Te...

The fascinating life story of Satish Kumar monk, peace activist, pilgrim and ecological campaigner. When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar...

Bidisha Biswas explores the question of how a democratic state chooses between policies of coercion and accommodation when dealing with political v...

Despite growing interest in democracy promotion, the nature and extent of external factors impact on democratic transitions to date remains underst...

Written by top practitioner-scholars who bring a critical yet empathetic eye to the topic, this textbook provides a comprehensive look at peace and...

This discussion of agricultural policy in the decade after Stalin shows how decisions are made and then enforced. Originally published in 1965. T...

This book considers the varied roles played by the United Nations in cases where threats to peace are created by civil strife in modernizing societ...

This book considers the varied roles played by the United Nations in cases where threats to peace are created by civil strife in modernizing societ...

In Religion and Radical Pluralism: Engaging Rawls and Gandhi, Jeff Shawn Jose confronts the question of the role of religion in the public sphere t...

Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one...

For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palest...

How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political ro...

The purpose of the book is to analyse interpersonal violence from an international, multi-thematic and theoretically-diverse perspective. An intern...

Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory ...

Drawing on innovative research into sectarian-political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more tha...

Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed anal...

Religious terrorism poses a significant challenge for many countries around the world. Extremists who justify violence in God's name can be found i...

How does an Army recruit attain an identity with soldierhood? What do they give up and what do they gain? What happens when a young officer, indoct...