Peace Studies Books

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  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

  4. 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)

  5. 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)

  6. 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)

  7. The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction

    By Helen Frowe

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-49240-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

  8. 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)

  9. 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)

  10. 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)

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