Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
About the Book Series
The field of peace and conflict research has grown enormously as an academic pursuit in recent years, gaining credibility and relevance amongst policy makers and in the international humanitarian and NGO sector. The Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution series aims to provide an outlet for some of the most significant new work emerging from this academic community, and to establish itself as a leading platform for innovative work at the point where peace and conflict research impacts on International Relations theory and processes.
Peace and Conflict in Core-Periphery Relations: Rethinking Margins, Violence, and Power
1st Edition
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By Benjamin Maiangwa
January 30, 2026
This book offers a grounded framework for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) that not only analyses conflict but also actively contributes to the well-being of marginalized communities. In response to rising authoritarianism and shrinking democratic spaces, the volume calls for inclusive ...
Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power
1st Edition
By Ana Maria Albulescu
December 31, 2025
This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of an extensive literature dealing with the resolution of internal conflicts. This volume examines the conditions that contribute to the success or failure of ...
Identity and Religion in Peace Processes: Mechanisms, Strategies and Tactics
1st Edition
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By Karina V. Korostelina, Marc Gopin, Jeffrey W. Helsing, Alpaslan Özerdem
December 26, 2025
This book examines the complex role identity and religion play in global peace processes. Based on multiple case studies, this book unveils the complex role identity and religion play in peace processes across the globe. It demonstrates that the success and sustainability of a peace process depends...
Reframing Peace Mediation: Overcoming Negotiation Impasses in El Salvador
1st Edition
By Owen Frazer
December 26, 2025
This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations. While existing theories of mediation have offered suggestions about what a mediator should get parties to do to reach an agreement, the puzzle that has remained is: how does...
Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements: The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics
1st Edition
By Liv Halperin
December 02, 2025
This book investigates and compares two contemporary Israeli peace movements through the angle of collective emotions, and specifically of hope. Drawing on empirical qualitative research combining interviews with Jewish and Arab-Palestinian activists and ethnographic work, the work provides unique ...
Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions: Extending Kelman’s Legacy
1st Edition
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By Tamra Pearson d’Estrée
April 14, 2025
This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman. Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations....
Functional Coexistence in Socio-Political Conflict: Enabling Social Change Across Decades
1st Edition
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By Tatsushi Arai, Margarita Tadevosyan
January 31, 2025
This book introduces the concept of functional coexistence as a context for building practical strategies for long-term conflict intervention and social change. Functional coexistence is a pragmatic relationship of mutual non-recognition sustained in the absence of physical violence. In this volume...
Memory Sites and Conflict Dynamics: Collective Memory, Identity, and Power
1st Edition
By Karina V. Korostelina
October 21, 2024
This book explores the ways in which memory sites contribute to the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, fueling fears and sharpening divisions, or promoting commonalities and reducing violence. Through an analysis of the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, the book shows how memory ...
Negotiating Intractable Conflicts: Readiness Theory Revisited
1st Edition
By Amira Schiff
October 14, 2024
Through the lens of readiness theory, this book focuses on elements that determine the success and failure in negotiating peace agreements in intractable ethno-national conflicts.Examining three cases of mediated negotiation in Aceh, Sudan, and Sri Lanka, the book provides an analytical framework ...
Civil Society, Peacebuilding, and Economic Assistance in Northern Ireland: Local Knowledge, Wisdom, and Practices
1st Edition
By Sean Byrne
October 09, 2024
This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face. The work explores the perspective and experiences of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland about their analysis and critique of liberal ...
Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions: South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups, 2006-13
1st Edition
By Lesley Anne Warner
October 09, 2024
In the 1960s, only 10% of peace agreements included some element of political-military accommodation – namely, military integration. From Burundi to Bosnia to Zimbabwe, that number had increased to over 50% by the 2000s. However, relatively little is understood about this dimension of power-sharing...
Narrating Peace: How to Tell a Conflict Story
1st Edition
By Solon Simmons
August 09, 2024
This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how a story is structured, all in order to help us think about conflict. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book illustrates a new model of four basic plot ...