Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

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1. History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

   Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

   Edited by Karina Korostelina, Simone Lässig

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Peace Negotiations and Time

   Deadline Diplomacy in Territorial Disputes

   By Marco Pinfari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Peacebuilding and NGOs

   State-Civil Society Interactions

   By Ryerson Christie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Rethinking Peacebuilding

   The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans

   Edited by Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding

   The Continuing Crisis in Darfur

   By Johan Brosché, Daniel Rothbart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution

   Debating Peace in Northern Ireland

   Edited by Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Creativity and Conflict Resolution

   Alternative Pathways to Peace

   By Tatsushi Arai

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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:...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Post-War Security Transitions

   Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts

   Edited by Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessmann, Katrin Planta

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Governing Ethnic Conflict

   Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace

   By Andrew Finlay

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   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...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
10. Reconciliation after Terrorism

    Strategy, possibility or absurdity?

    Edited by Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    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...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge