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.
Rethinking Peacebuilding: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
February 25, 2014
This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are ...
Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding: The Continuing Crisis in Darfur
1st Edition
By Johan Brosché, Daniel Rothbart
November 08, 2013
This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types. The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent ...
Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance: Beyond the Metropolis
1st Edition
By David Roberts
October 03, 2013
This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the ...
Reconciliation after Terrorism: Strategy, possibility or absurdity?
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer
October 03, 2013
Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Although terrorist activities often play a role in ...
Small Arms, Crime and Conflict: Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Owen Greene, Nic Marsh
October 03, 2013
This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons. It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This...
Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace
1st Edition
By Tatsushi Arai
February 10, 2012
This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled: ...
Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace
1st Edition
By Andrew Finlay
February 09, 2012
This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since...
Post-War Security Transitions: Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts
1st Edition
Edited
By Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessmann, Katrin Planta
January 27, 2012
This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and ...
Peace Research: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Peter Wallensteen
August 08, 2011
Comprising essays by Peter Wallensteen, this book presents an overview of the thematic development of peace research, which has become one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of war and conflict studies. Peace research began in the 1950s when centres were formed in the USA and Europe, and ...
A Post-Liberal Peace
1st Edition
By Oliver Richmond
July 21, 2011
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These ...
Social Capital and Peace-Building: Creating and Resolving Conflict with Trust and Social Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Michaelene Cox
November 10, 2010
This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict. This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case studies, statistical analyses, and theoretical ...
Climate Change and Armed Conflict: Hot and Cold Wars
1st Edition
By James R. Lee
May 19, 2010
This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic...