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1. Creativity and Conflict Resolution

   Alternative Pathways to Peace

   By Tatsushi Arai

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled:...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Post-War Security Transitions

   Participatory peacebuilding after asymmetric conflicts

   Edited by Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessmann, Katrin Planta

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Governing Ethnic Conflict

   Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace

   By Andrew Finlay

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
4. Reconciliation after Terrorism

   Strategy, possibility or absurdity?

   Edited by Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Although terrorist activities often play a role in...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Small Arms, Crime and Conflict

   Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence

   Edited by Owen Greene, Nic Marsh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons. It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This...

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Peace Research

   Theory and Practice

   By Peter Wallensteen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   Comprising essays by Peter Wallensteen, this book presents an overview of the thematic development of peace research, which has become one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of war and conflict studies. Peace research began in the 1950s when centres were formed in the USA and Europe, and...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. A Post-Liberal Peace

   By Oliver Richmond

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance

   Beyond the Metropolis

   By David Roberts

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the...

   Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
9. Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation

   Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

   By Sean Byrne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland. The book describes the results of a study of the role of economic aid within Northern Ireland, through the viewpoints of citizens collected...

   Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution

    Debating Peace in Northern Ireland

    Edited by Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge