Books in the Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution series

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

Offering an analysis of the peace process in Ireland and the Dayton Accords in Bosnia Herzegovina, this book argues that the problem with consociational arrangements is not simply that they institutionalise ethnic division and privilege particular identities or groups, but, importantly, that they close down the space for other ways of being.

Investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement. This book explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails.

Explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations.

Examines the actions being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world. This book explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding.

Examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. This book also examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it produces two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'.

Considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists. It focuses on the conditions which predispose - or prevent - embarkation on a truth recovery process, and the rationale for that process.

Analyzes how 'postmodern' conflict, such as the Balkan Wars, and the post-9/11 'new terrorism' can be prevented and/or otherwise dealt with.

This book discusses the different roles played by universities in responding to civil or interstate conflict, division or occupation.

This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book provides a critical understanding of the emerging role of African militaries in peacetime democratic Africa.

This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars.

Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area.

This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its unintended impact on groups in conflict.

This book discusses the different roles played by universities in responding to civil or interstate conflict, division or occupation.

This book aims to understand the processes of and the outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet.

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security.

This book aims to understand the processes of and the outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet.

This book provides a critical understanding of the emerging role of African militaries in peacetime democratic Africa.

This book is an in-depth exploration of the challenge of transforming violent conflict into just peace inside systems of external military occupation, with a focus on the conflict in Israel and its occupied territory.

This book asks how, and under what conditions, external-domestic interactions impact on peacebuilding outcomes during transitions to peace and democracy, with a focus on the case of Kosovo.

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security.

This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie strategic shifts from armed to nonviolent strategies of resistance within self-determination, revolutionary or pro-democracy movements.

This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post-conflict period.