1st Edition

Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security Peace Anxieties

Edited By Bahar Rumelili Copyright 2015
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts. In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications to international relations theory. Although conflicts threaten the physical security of the... Read more
Introduction, Bahar Rumelili  1. Ontological (In)security and Peace Anxieties: A Framework for Conflict Resolution, Bahar Rumelili  2. Ontological Security and the Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process: Between Unstable Conflict and Conflict in Resolution, Amir Lupovici  3. Kurdish Issue and Levels of Ontological Security, Ayşe Betül Çelik 4. Ethnic Nationalism and the Production of Ontological Security in Cyprus, Neophytos G. Loizides 5. Ontological (In)security and Violent Peace in Northern Ireland, Audra Mitchell 6. Ontological (In)Security of ‘Included’ Citizens: The Case of Early Republican Turkey (1923-1946), Pınar Bilgin and Başak İnce 7. Ontological (In)Security After Peace: The Case of the Åland Islands, Pertti Joenniemi 8. The Ontological Significance of Karelia: Finland’s Reconciliation with Losing the Promised Land, Christopher S. Browning & Pertti Joenniemi 9. Decolonising Security and Peace: Mono-Epistemology versus Peace Formation, Oliver P. Richmond Conclusion, Bahar Rumelili

Biography

Bahar Rumelili is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of International Relations, Koç University, Turkey, and author of Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia (2007).