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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.

61 Series Titles


Resolving Structural Conflicts How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed

Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed

1st Edition

By Richard E. Rubenstein
January 20, 2017

This book analyses how certain types of social systems generate violent conflict and discusses how these systems can be transformed in order to create the conditions for positive peace. Resolving Structural Conflicts addresses a key issue in the field of conflict studies: what to do about violent ...

UN Peace Operations and International Policing Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn

UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn

1st Edition

By Charles T. Hunt
November 08, 2016

 This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN peace operations are a vital component of international conflict management. Since the end of the Cold War one of the foremost developments ...

Gender, Peace and Security Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325

Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325

1st Edition

Edited By Louise Olsson, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
November 07, 2016

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security. How should we understand women’s participation in peace ...

Communication and Peace Mapping an emerging field

Communication and Peace: Mapping an emerging field

1st Edition

Edited By Julia Hoffmann, Virgil Hawkins
October 10, 2016

This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, ...

Migration and Security in the Global Age Diaspora Communities and Conflict

Migration and Security in the Global Age: Diaspora Communities and Conflict

1st Edition

By Feargal Cochrane
October 10, 2016

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of several interconnecting aspects of migrant communities in the context of contemporary conflict and security. The book illustrates that within this globalised world, migrants have become key actors, living in the spaces between states, as well as ...

Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle

Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from armed to nonviolent struggle

1st Edition

Edited By Véronique Dudouet
July 31, 2015

This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie the strategic shifts of armed movements from violent to nonviolent resistance. The revival of global interest in the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle since the 2011 Arab Spring offers a welcome ...

Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding A comparative study

Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding: A comparative study

1st Edition

By Tracey Holland, J. Paul Martin
July 22, 2015

This book assesses the role of human rights education (HRE) in the peacebuilding field. Today, most governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisations recognise the importance of human rights in peace- and democracy-building activities in post-conflict regions. However, ...

Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict Managing Violent Pasts

Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts

1st Edition

By Marie Breen Smyth
December 23, 2014

This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are increasingly used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists and to acknowledge the suffering of their victims. This book ...

Conflict Resolution and Human Needs Linking Theory and Practice

Conflict Resolution and Human Needs: Linking Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Kevin Avruch, Christopher Mitchell
November 10, 2014

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, ...

Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation: Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

1st Edition

By Sean Byrne
September 11, 2014

This book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland. The book describes the results of a study of the role of economic aid within Northern Ireland, through the viewpoints of citizens collected ...

History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

1st Edition

Edited By Karina Korostelina, Simone Lässig
September 11, 2014

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 ...

Peacebuilding and NGOs State-Civil Society Interactions

Peacebuilding and NGOs: State-Civil Society Interactions

1st Edition

By Ryerson Christie
May 30, 2014

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 ...

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