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.
Neighborhood Resilience and Urban Conflict: The Four Loops Model
1st Edition
By Karina V. Korostelina
May 31, 2023
This book explores the resilience in urban neighborhoods affected by chronic conflict and violence, developing a new model for improving resilience policies. The neighborhood resilience approach is an inclusive form of building positive resilience, which recognizes that local communities ...
The Colombian Peace Agreement: A Multidisciplinary Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora, Andrés Molina-Ochoa, Nancy C. Doubleday
May 31, 2023
This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the largest and most violent conflicts in the Western Hemisphere. It discusses the achievements, failures...
Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic: Building Peace, Pursuing Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard E. Rubenstein, Solon Simmons
January 09, 2023
In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both ...
Theorising Civil Society Peacebuilding: The Practical Wisdom of Local Peace Practitioners in Northern Ireland, 1965–2015
1st Edition
By Emily E. Stanton
January 09, 2023
Using empirical qualitative research, this book conceptualises and demonstrates the value of local practical knowledge for peacebuilding in the context of Northern Ireland. There are increasing calls to involve local people to ensure legitimacy, relevance, and sustainability when seeking to build ...
Multi-Level Reconciliation and Peacebuilding: Stakeholder Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin P. Clements, SungYong Lee
August 01, 2022
This edited volume examines the group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies by adopting ideas developed in social psychology and the everyday peace discourse in peace and conflict studies. The book revisits the intra- and inter-group dynamics of social reconciliation in ...
Racial Justice and Nonviolence Education: Building the Beloved Community, One Block at a Time
1st Edition
By Arthur Romano
July 14, 2022
This book examines the role that community-based educators in violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical nonviolent vision for racial and social justice. This work argues that nonviolence education can help communities build capacity to disrupt and transform ...
Root Narrative Theory and Conflict Resolution: Power, Justice and Values
1st Edition
By Solon Simmons
February 13, 2020
This book introduces Root Narrative Theory, a new approach for narrative analysis, decoding moral politics, and for building respect and understanding in conditions of radical disagreement. This theory of moral politics bridges emotion and reason, and, rather than relying on what people say, it ...
Peace in International Relations
2nd Edition
By Oliver P. Richmond
January 16, 2020
This updated and revised second edition examines the conceptualisation and evolution of peace in International Relations (IR) theory. The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, critical theory, and ...
Resolving International Conflict: Dynamics of Escalation, Continuation and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabel Bramsen, Poul Poder, Ole Waever
May 21, 2019
Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area. The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction and tension. It shows ...
Universities and Conflict: The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Juliet Millican
May 07, 2019
This book uses a series of case studies to examine the roles played by universities during situations of conflict, peacebuilding and resistance. While a body of work dealing with the role of education in conflict does exist, this is almost entirely concerned with compulsory education and schooling...
State Domination and the Psycho-Politics of Conflict: Power, Conflict and Humiliation
1st Edition
By Daniel Rothbart
April 08, 2019
This book offers a detailed study of the psycho-politics of governmental manipulation, in which a vulnerable population is disciplined by contorting their sense of self-worth. In many conflict settings, a nation’s government exerts its dominance over a marginalized population group through laws, ...
Comparing Peace Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Alpaslan Özerdem, Roger Mac Ginty
April 01, 2019
This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars. There is no standard model of peace processes and all will vary according to the context, type of conflict, timing, national and global economic climate, and factors like natural ...