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.
UN Intervention Practices in Iraq: A Discursive Approach to International Interventions
1st Edition
By Kerstin Eppert
February 04, 2019
This book analyzes UN intervention discourses and practices in Iraq and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions. Hitherto, most analyses of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 have established the UN’s role as path-dependent on the foreign policy of the US and the UK, and ...
Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution: Vision, Action and Evaluation in Creative Conflict Engagement
1st Edition
By Jay Rothman
January 31, 2019
This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author. Since the early days of the field of conflict resolution, researchers and practitioners have been trying to determine how to define and ...
African Peace Militaries: War, Peace and Democratic Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By David Francis
January 17, 2019
This book provides a critical understanding of the emerging role of African militaries in peacetime democratic Africa. This book departs from the dominant perspective which simply presents the military as an ‘enemy’ of democracy because of the history and legacy of unending military coup d’états ...
Climate Change and Resource Conflict: The Role of Scarcity
1st Edition
By Judith M. Bretthauer
January 24, 2018
This book examines the links between climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict. Does climate change cause conflicts? This book analyses the economic, political and social conditions under which countries with low levels of freshwater or arable land experience armed conflict. There ...
International Intervention, Identity and Conflict Transformation: Bridges and Walls Between Groups
1st Edition
By Timea Spitka
January 03, 2018
This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its impact on groups in conflict. When the international community intervenes in a violent internal conflict, intervening powers may harden divisions, constructing walls between groups, or they may foster ...
Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Mediation, Negotiation and Settlement of Political Disputes
1st Edition
By Nahla Yassine-Hamdan, Frederic Pearson
December 21, 2017
This book examines Arab approaches to mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes. This book proposes that two clusters of independent variables are potentially responsible for the distinctive nature of Arab conflict resolution. Firstly, those linked with Arab political regimes and...
Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution: Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell
November 30, 2017
This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a ...
Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Rethinking Civil Society Involvement in Peace Negotiations
1st Edition
By Franzisca Zanker
September 15, 2017
The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular. The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil ...
Peacebuilding and Friction: Global and Local Encounters in Post Conflict-Societies
1st Edition
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By Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearoid Millar, Jair van der Lijn, Willemijn Verkoren
June 16, 2017
This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power ...
Peace Negotiations and Time: Deadline Diplomacy in Territorial Disputes
1st Edition
By Marco Pinfari
May 24, 2017
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...
Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation: Multi-level Challenges in Deeply Divided Societies
1st Edition
By Sarah Maddison
May 10, 2017
This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies. In contrast to current literature, this book provides a broader assessment of reconciliation and conflict transformation by applying a distinctive ‘multi-level’ approach. The...
Peacebuilding and Post-War Transitions: Assessing The Impact of External-Domestic Interactions
1st Edition
By Lisa Gross
February 24, 2017
This book asks how, and under what conditions, external-domestic interactions impact on peacebuilding outcomes during transitions to peace and democracy. Why do so many peacebuilding interventions in post-war states result in stalled transitions despite heavy international support? This book ...