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.
Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach
1st Edition
By Susan H. Allen
May 27, 2024
This book examines the theory and practice of interactive peacemaking, centering the role of people in making peace. The book presents the theory and practice of peacemaking as found in contemporary processes globally. By putting people at the center of the analysis, it outlines the possibilities ...
Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine: Dialogues for a Just Peace
1st Edition
By Robert Hostetter
May 27, 2024
This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and processes for building a peacemaking platform. The primary aim of this book is to analyze the crucial roles and capacities of mid-level, nongovernmental peacemakers as they provide ...
Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By Dong Jin Kim, David Mitchell
September 25, 2023
This book offers a distinctive perspective on peace processes by comparatively analysing two cases which have rarely been studied in tandem, Ireland and Korea. The volume examines and compares Ireland and Korea as two peace/conflict areas. Despite their differences, both places are marked by a ...
Healing and Peacebuilding after War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1st Edition
Edited
By Julianne Funk, Nancy Good, Marie E. Berry
May 31, 2023
This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book begins with a simple premise: trauma that is not ...
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 ...
Political Expression and Conflict Transformation in Divided Societies: Criminalising Politics and Politicising Crime
1st Edition
By Daniel Kirkpatrick
April 01, 2021
This book considers how the social construction of crime and the criminalising of political expression impact upon different stages in a violent political conflict.The freedom to express our political opinions is regarded as an essential human right throughout most of the world, and yet, in defence...
Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation: New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland Politics
1st Edition
By Fidelma Ashe
September 30, 2020
Utilising Northern Ireland as a case study, this book presents an analysis of the gender and sexual politics of conflict transformation.The book synthesises a vast array of international sources with the author’s empirical and theoretical research to produce a powerful gendered critique of conflict...