Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys...

We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environm...

In the international press, East Africa is depicted as a region mired in civil war, child abduction, rebel militias, Muslim-Christian violence, and...

The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformati...

Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to virtua...

From the cofounder of Food Not Bombs, an action-oriented guide to anarchism, social change, and vegan cooking Unlike the original Anarchist Cookboo...

The fields of conflict analysis, management, resolution, prevention and transformation continue to expand beyond NGOs into university departments, ...

Introduction to Conflict Studies: Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensios is a survey textbook that takes a multidisciplinary approach to stu...

Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital fac...

In John Hume in America: From Derry to DC and its accompanying documentary, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Maurice Fitzpatrick chronic...

In John Hume in America: From Derry to DC and its accompanying documentary, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Maurice Fitzpatrick chronic...

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and wh...

Understanding Conflict Resolution is a comprehensive introduction to the study of peace and conflict studies. It explores both the historical roots...

The Power of Nonviolence, written by Richard Bartlett Gregg in 1934 and revised in 1944 and 1959, is the most important and influential theory of p...

Across more than four decades, the conflict between the national government and Muslim liberation forces in the southern Philippines has killed ten...

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of internat...

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies...

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...