Peace Studies Books

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11. Joy and International Relations

    A New Methodology

    By Elina Penttinen

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
12. Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

    Peace from the Ashes of War?

    Edited by Mikael Eriksson, Roland Kostić

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars tend to rely on findings in the...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
13. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

    Edited by Roger Mac Ginty

    This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms,...

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
14. History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

    Edited by Karina Korostelina, Simone Lässig

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory...

    Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
15. Assessing the Capitalist Peace

    Edited by Gerald Schneider, Nils Petter Gleditsch

    Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist societies and the openness of the economy are among...

    Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
16. Global Movement

    Edited by Ruth Reitan

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
17. International Responsibility and Grave Humanitarian Crises

    Collective Provision for Human Security

    By Hannes Peltonen

    Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect

    This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing. The idea of collective responsibility highlights how we would like to see the global level primarily as...

    Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
18. Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding on the Ground

    Victims and Ex-Combatants

    Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Jemima García-Godos, Johanna Herman, Olga Martin-Ortega

    Series: Law, Conflict and International Relations

    This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or...

    Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
19. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Edited by David Jensen, Stephen Lonergan

    Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

    When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
20. Political Economy of Statebuilding

    Power after Peace

    Edited by Mats Berdal, Dominik Zaum

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge