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1. UN Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Learning Lessons From Haiti

   By Eirin Mobekk

   This book looks at UN Peace Operations in Haiti and why they went so dramatically wrong first time around, resulting in much deep-seated conflict, in order that these lessons can be taken into account in future operations elsewhere....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48086-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. The Routledge Handbook of Human Security

   Edited by Mary Martin, Taylor Owen

   This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past 15 years, since the concept was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1993 and 1994 Human Development Reports. The volume fills a clear gap in the...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58128-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57795-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Peacekeeping in the 21st Century: Cosmopolitanism and the Globalization of Security

   By Tom Woodhouse, Oliver Ramsbotham

   This book provides a comprehensive survey of the current levels of peace-keeping forces at global, regional, sub-regional and nation-state levels. The authors offer a census of peace-keeping capacity in the first decade of the twenty-first century and chart plans to develop this capacity in order...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-44052-3 | Paperback (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)

7. Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance: Beyond the Metropolis

   By David Roberts

   This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. ...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-49743-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. 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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   Peace and Conflict Research: Theory and Practice

   By Peter Wallensteen

   Peace Research has become one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research into war and conflict. This volume comprises essays by Prof. Peter Wallensteen, one of the leading scholars in this field over the past 30 years. Peace research began in the 1950s when centres were formed in...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58089-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. The Economics of UN Peacekeeping

    By Nadège Sheehan

    Whereas most of the literature on peacekeeping looks at it from a political, financial or legal position, this book is the first to look at the economic aspects. Nadège Sheehan argues that though UN peacekeeping is a political activity it is dependent on economics considerations and that these...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-56746-6 | Hardback (Routledge)