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'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country
Edited by David Moore, Norma Kriger
Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation....
August 2011 | 978-0-415-59465-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation: New Themes and Old Problems in Northern Ireland
By Fidelma Ashe
This book genders the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland and both documents and analyzes the effects of the restructuring of its politics on gender and sexual equality....
July 2011 | 978-0-415-55816-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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UN Sanctions and Conflict: Responding to Peace and Security Threats
By Andrea Charron
This book examines the UN Security Council’s experience with sanctions since the Cold War, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for particular types of conflict. From the Cold War, with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, to the post-9/11 era, with Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Eritrea...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-59835-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Routledge Handbook of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Edited by David Newman, Joel Peters
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world’s headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic community, political analysts, and the world’s media. This Handbook provides a...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-77862-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges
Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar
Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-60957-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader
Edited by Charles Webel, Jorgen Johansen
Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Peace and conflict studies, incorporating anthropology, sociology, political science, ethics, theology and history, aims to uncover the roots of conflict, transform the...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-59129-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Memory and Conflict Resolution
By Rhys Kelly
This is the first volume to examine current memory research in both the natural and social sciences for analysts of conflict and conflict resolution processes. In the last decade, memory has become an increasingly popular topic in many areas of the social sciences and humanities, providing a...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-41554-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Political Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalisation, remobilisers and relationships
By R. Anders Themnér
This book examines why some ex-combatants re-engage in political violence after civil wars have ended, while others do not. Though former fighters have been identified as a major source of insecurity in post-civil war societies due to their military know-how, there have been few efforts to...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-57922-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Theories of Violent Conflict: An Introduction
By Jolle Demmers
This textbook introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and to examine the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches. In reviewing theories of conflict, this book takes the centrality of the group as...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55534-0 | Paperback (Routledge)