Peace & Conflict Studies
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Peace Negotiations and Time
Deadline Diplomacy in Territorial Disputes
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book discusses the role of time in peace negotiations and peace processes in the post-Cold War period, making reference to real-world negotiations and using comparative data. Deadlines are increasingly used by mediators to spur deadlocked negotiation processes, under the assumption that fixed...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Peacebuilding and NGOs
State-Civil Society Interactions
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict. The drive to establish a sustainable liberal peace largely...
Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding
The Continuing Crisis in Darfur
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types. The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent...
Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
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History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects
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
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Conflict Resolution and Human Needs
Linking Theory and Practice
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This edited volume examines Basic Human Needs theory and interactive problem solving, looking at recent developments in thinking about both and how these might affect peacebuilding in contemporary conflicts of the twenty-first century. The era in the immediate aftermath of World War II was,...
Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation
New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book looks at the gendering of the on-going process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. It aims both to document and analyze the effects of the restructuring of formal and civil society politics on gender and sexual equality. Consequently, it opens up the...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution
Mediation, Negotiation and Settlement of Political Disputes
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book examines Arab approaches to mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes, where such forms of conflict resolution might be distinctive from other cultural approaches in terms of processes and outcomes. A particular sub-focus of this book is the role of the...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Post-War Security Transitions
Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts
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
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Rethinking Peacebuilding
The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are...
Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Peacebuilding
From Concept to Commission
Series: Global Institutions
The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a concise introduction that traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and functioning of the PBC as...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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South America and Peace Operations
Coming of Age
Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping
This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations. The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently with regard to its attitudes towards participation in peace operations. Leaving behind a strong...
Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
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UN Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Learning Lessons From Haiti
Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping
This book looks at UN Peace Operations in Haiti and why they went so dramatically wrong first time around, resulting in much deep-seated conflict, in order that these lessons can be taken into account in future operations elsewhere....
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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War on the Body
Rethinking the Ethics of War
Series: Interventions
This book explores the issues associated with thinking the body at war. Ultimately, it reframes the relationship between the body and war by suggesting a new way of thinking about what ‘the body’ is, and consequently how we can consider it in relation to war. Although ‘the body’ may appear to be an...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding on the Ground
Victims and Ex-Combatants
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
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Peacebuilding and International Administration
The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding
Peace from the Ashes of War?
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
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Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation
When Greed is Good
Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
This book examines the circumstances under which aid can contribute to the management and transformation of intra-state conflicts. How and when do insurgents govern? How does the presence of aid and social services influence how insurgents govern? Under what circumstances can aid contribute to the...
Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
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International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking
Taking Sides in Civil Wars
Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
This is the first book focusing on the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars. The argument is tested through analysis of both global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes, and makes two main contributions. First, it explores the role of biased...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Peace and Experts
Knowledge and the Politics of Peacemaking in the Middle East
Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This edited volume proposes a new conceptual framework for the analysis of expert knowledge in peacemaking, as well as providing policy-relevant analysis of the Middle East peace process. Theoretical and empirical investigations from an anthropological perspective of the role of the...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Stabilization Operations, Security and Development
States of Fragility
Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the new...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
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The Internationalization of Internal Conflicts
Threatening the State
Internal security crises, from environmental disaster, extreme poverty and deprivation, armed conflicts, or ethnic or religious conflict, provide sites of opportunity for those seeking to internationalize conflicts. Domestic conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia have started as...
To Be Published August 8th 2013 by Routledge
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Thinking about War and Peace
Rich in pedagogy and clearly structured throughout, this textbook combines theoretical analysis with both historical and contemporary examples to explain, compare, and evaluate the various causal theories and moral frameworks that have been most influential in discussions of war. The book: clearly...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War
Creating and Encountering the Enemy Other
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim...
Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Civilians and Modern War
Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces...
Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Assessing the Capitalist Peace
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
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Reconciliation and Pedagogy
Series: Postcolonial Politics
Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...
Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
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China’s Evolving Approach to Peacekeeping
China has become an enthusiastic supporter of and contributor to UN peacekeeping. Is China’s participation in peacekeeping likely to strengthen the current international peacekeeping regime by China’s adopting of the international norms of peacekeeping? Or, on the contrary, is it likely to alter...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Nationalism and Conflict Management
Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics. Despite the emergence of approaches to managing it, from nation-building to territorial autonomy, in recent years, the application of these approaches has been uneven. Old conflicts persist and new ones continually emerge. The...
Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Peace and Conflict Studies
A Reader
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
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The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the EU has performed in facilitating mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding across the globe. Offering an accessible...
Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
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War Beyond the Battlefield
In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the "War on Terror", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield...
Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies
Playing with the Enemy
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this...
To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Ethics of War and Conflict
Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy
Standing on the shoulders of thinkers who have sought carefully to delineate proper behaviour in armed conflict—not least to distinguish just from illegitimate wars—military ethics is a subdiscipline enjoying renewed interest and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, increasing practical...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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A Dictionary of Ethnic Conflict
Containing approximately 500 entries, this detailed Dictionary gives authoritative and up-to-date information on ethnic groups involved in conflict. Entries are provided for current ethnic hotspots, irredentist claims, secessionist movements as well as major peace accords, with clear and...
To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
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Peacebuilding and Local Ownership
Post-Conflict Consensus-Building
Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Tourism and War
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issues of peace and...
Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Formal Peace and Informal War
Security and Development in Congo
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule,...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Diplomacy
A Negotiated Approach to Managing Complex Water Networks
Series: RFF Press Water Policy Series
Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty-first century. This book offers a new approach to managing water that will overcome the conflicts that emerge when the interactions among natural, societal, and political forces are...
Published June 19th 2012 by RFF Press
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Water as a Catalyst for Peace
Transboundary Water Management and Conflict Resolution
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts. The main premise is that water can and should be used as a catalyst for peace...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Six volume set
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
Post-conflict peacebuilding efforts can fail if they do not pay sufficient attention to natural resources. Natural resources – diamonds, oil, and minerals – are frequently at the heart of historic grievances, and have caused or funded at least eighteen conflicts since 1990. The same...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge