1st Edition

Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic Building Peace, Pursuing Justice

Edited By Richard E. Rubenstein, Solon Simmons Copyright 2021
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a series of short... Read more

Foreword by Alpaslan Özerdem

Introduction

Richard E. Rubenstein and Solon Simmons

PART I. CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A PERIOD OF SOCIAL CRISIS

1. Big Peace: An Agenda for Peace and Conflict Studies After the Coronavirus Catastrophe

Solon Simmons

2. Lessons from Disaster: History and the Current Crisis

Peter N. Stearns and Richard E. Rubenstein

3. From the Frying Pan to the Fire: The Next Stage of Environmental Crisis and its Implications for Conflict Resolution

Michael Shank

PART II. GLOBAL POLITICAL CONFLICTS AFTER THE PANDEMIC

4. Pandemics, Globalization and Contentious Politics

Agnieszka Paczynska and Terrence Lyons

5. Global migration after the pandemic

Omar Grech
6. COVID-19, Nationalism, and Changing Political Identities

Karina Korostelina

7. Resolving Great Power Conflicts in the Post-Pandemic Era

Mohammed Cherkaoui

PART III. INTERGROUP CONFLICTS AFTER THE PANDEMIC

8. Twilight of the Market Gods: The Revaluation of Socioeconomic Values in a Period of Social Reconstruction

Michael English

9. The Pandemic and the Struggle for Racial and Ethnic Justice in America

Arthur Romano

10. The Impact of Crisis and Recovery on Gender Relationships, Roles, and Conflicts

Scheherazade Jafari

11. Eternal and Internal Security: Impact of the Crisis on Religious Identity and Peacemaking

Charles Davidson

PART IV. CONFLICT RESOLUTION INITIATIVES AFTER THE PANDEMIC

12. Peace Engineering in a Post- Pandemic World

Alpasian Ozerdem and Lisa Schirch

13. Threats of Escalation and Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine

Oded Adomi Leshem

14. The future of U.S.-China Relations: The Rocky Road to Peace

Gao Qing

Concluding Note

Richard E. Rubenstein and Solon Simmons

Biography

Richard E. Rubenstein, J.D. is a University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University and is a long-time faculty member and former director of the Carter School.

Solon Simmons, PhD. is an Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University with a Ph.D. in sociology.