Peace Studies Books

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41. Creativity and Conflict Resolution

    Alternative Pathways to Peace

    By Tatsushi Arai

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled:...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
42. Post-War Security Transitions

    Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts

    Edited by Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessmann, Katrin Planta

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
43. Governing Ethnic Conflict

    Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace

    By Andrew Finlay

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since...

    Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
44. Peace and Conflict Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Charles Webel, Jorgen Johansen

    Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
45. Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation

    Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

    Edited by Bruno Charbonneau, Genevieve Parent

    Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

    This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding. After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
46. Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect

    Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide

    By Damien Kingsbury

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
47. Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

    Contributions from the private sector to address violent conflict

    By Derek Sweetman

    Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world, and explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding. This book...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
48. Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding

    Postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone

    By Christine Cubitt

    Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

    Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence. This book presents nuanced and contextually...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
49. Reconciliation after Terrorism

    Strategy, possibility or absurdity?

    Edited by Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Although terrorist activities often play a role in...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
50. EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict

    The Europeanization of national foreign policy

    By Patrick Müller

    Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations

    This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East. European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process in...

    Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge