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1. Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation

   When Greed is Good

   By Rob Kevlihan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book examines the circumstances under which aid can contribute to the management and transformation of intra-state conflicts. How and when do insurgents govern? How does the presence of aid and social services influence how insurgents govern? Under what circumstances can aid contribute to the...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management

   The art of avoiding war

   By Rongxing Guo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book examines the problems of boundary demarcation and its impact on territorial disputes, and offers techniques to manage and resolve the resulting conflicts. Historically, most civil conflicts and internal wars have been directly related to boundary or territorial disputes. Cross-border...

   Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
3. UN Sanctions and Conflict

   Responding to Peace and Security Threats

   By Andrea Charron

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book examines the application of the UN Security Council's mandatory sanctions since 1946, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for specific types of conflict. Beginning in the Cold War period with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia and continuing today, following the post-9/11 experience...

   Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge
4. Theory and Practice of International Mediation

   Selected Essays

   By Jacob Bercovitch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field. It has become common practice to note that mediation has been, and remains, one of the most important structures of dealing...

   Published January 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Conflict Management and African Politics

   Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation

   Edited by Terrence Lyons, Gilbert M. Khadiagala

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments, hurting stalemates, and collapsed states, are built upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
6. International Mediation in Civil Wars

   Bargaining with Bullets

   By Timothy D Sisk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace. As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. International Conflict Mediation

   New Approaches and Findings

   Edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Scott Sigmund Gartner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation. International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and...

   Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Negotiation and Conflict Management

   Essays on Theory and Practice

   By I. William Zartman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order. Responding to a lack...

   Published March 1st 2009 by Routledge
9. Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding

   Moving From Violence to Sustainable Peace

   Edited by Bruce W. Dayton, Louis Kriesberg

   Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

   This book seeks to examine the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts. Specifically, the volume seeks to map the processes and dynamics that lead groups challenging existing power structures to engage in violent struggle; the processes and dynamics that contribute to the...

   Published February 10th 2009 by Routledge