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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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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 Nilsson
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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Reconciliation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
By Priyambudi Sulistiyanto
The era of rule by the Suharto regime in Indonesia was characterised by a long series of gross human rights abuses. This book examines the politics of reconciliation and forgiveness in post Suharto Indonesia since 1998....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-43120-0 | 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)
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Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges
By Magnus Oberg, Kristine Hoglund
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work....
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57198-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Protecting the Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution
By Anneke Smit
Protecting the Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57960-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism
Edited by Lawrence Rubin, Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard
This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. The book explores terrorist rehabilitation methodologies developed by practitioners and scholars, with the aim of demystifying the process,...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-58293-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Reconciliation after Terrorism: Strategy, Possibility or Absurdity?
Edited by Alexander Spencer, Judith Renner
This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Traditionally, terrorism research has revolved around such questions as: What...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-58858-4 | Hardback (Routledge)