Can Peace Research Make Peace?
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academic
Academic Diplomacy
Author_Timo Kivimaki
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community
conflict
conflict resolution methods
Dayak Community
diplomacy
East Timor
empirical peace studies
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Ethnic Fighters
Ethnic Leaders
Indonesian Conflicts
InterReligious Communication
kalimantan
madurese
Madurese Communities
Madurese People
malay
neo-pragmatism theory
Pasir Panjang
Peace Research Education
pragmatic peacebuilding strategies
prevention
PRIO Data
qualitative conflict analysis
sambas
Sambas Malay
Sambas Riots
social constructivism
speech act analysis
Van Klinken
Vice President's Office
Vice President’s Office
west
West Kalimantan
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409452027
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is about the process and, more generally, about the opportunities that peace research and the teaching of conflict resolution can offer academic diplomacy. As such the book is both an empirical and a theoretical project. While it aims at being the most comprehensive analysis of the conflict in West Kalimantan, it also launches a new theoretical approach, neo-pragmatism, and offers lessons for the prevention of conflicts elsewhere. While being based on the classical pragmatist theories of truth and explanation, the approach developed in this book incorporates the complications to social science theory caused by the 'discovery' of socially constructed realities, and concepts such as speech acts. Yet, instead of just theorizing speech acts and social constructs, the theoretical mission is to offer pragmatic, detailed, concrete prescriptions of what to do to deconstruct realities that threaten peace by the means available for research and scholars of peace.
Timo Kivimäki is Professor of international relations with particular expertise in peace and conflict studies at the University of Bath. Previously he has held professorships at the University of Helsinki, University of Lapland, and at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Kivimäki has also been director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen) and the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Helsinki. In addition to purely academic work Professor Kivimäki has been a frequent consultant to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Swedish governments, as well as to several UN and EU organizations on conflict and terrorism. He was President Martti Ahtisaari’s (mediators) adviser in the Aceh peace talks, and the initiator of the West Kalimantan peace process, led by Indonesia’s Vice President, Jusuf Kalla. Dr Kivimäki’s latest book, The Long Peace of East Asia was published by Ashgate in 2014.
