Author : Charles Hauss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826447760
A lively introduction to both theory and practice. A broad selection of case studies, covering the major conflicts the world has faced since 1990, provide readers with material they can use to form their own judgment about the theories. This lively, clearly-structured text will be invaluable for course use in both International Relations and Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies.
Author : Hugh Miall
Publisher : Polity
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745620350
This is the first integrated survey of conflict resolution since the Cold War, offering an ideal introduction to the subject and an authoritative assessment of its current stage of development.
Author : Charles Hauss
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826489117
Using a broad range of case studies, this book examines conflict and the international relations facing the world today.
Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2003-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1134160615
This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, and in the policy world as exemplified through practices in the peacebuilding efforts since the end of the Cold War. Issues addressed include the problem of how peace efforts become sustainable rather than merely inscribed in international and state-level diplomatic and military frameworks. The book also explores themes relating to culture, development, agency and structure. It explores in particular the current mantras associated with the 'liberal peace', which appears to have become a foundational assumption of much of mainstream IR and the policy world. Analyzing war has often led to the dominance of violence as a basic assumption in, and response to, the problems of international relations. This book aims to redress the balance by arguing that IR now in fact offers a rich basis for the study of peace.
Author : Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472050621
In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional task-sharing, and truth commissions. Here, Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson, two internationally recognized experts, systematically examine each one of these conflict resolution tools and describe how it works and in what conflict situations it is most likely to be effective. Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century is not only an essential introduction for students and scholars, it is a must-have guide for the men and women entrusted with creating stability and security in our changing world. Cover illustration © iStockphoto.com
Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781929223657
This updated and expanded edition of the highly popular volume originally published in 1997 describes the tools and skills of peacemaking that are currently available and critically assesses their usefulness and limitations.
Author : Barbara A. Nagle-Lechman
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Arbitration and award
ISBN :
Conflict and Resolution, Second Edition, provides students with a working knowledge of the major forms of dispute resolution. Through the use of hands-on exercises and role-playing scenarios, theory is put into practice allowing students to translate lessons learned into true to life situations. This newly revised text offers the following: provides an overview of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration in a short, accessible book well-designed pedagogyfor the paralegal students, including chapter summaries and exercises designed to engage students in application of what they have learned includes role-plays to allow students to experience how the theories of dispute resolution are used in practice ethical issues thoroughly covered The Second Edition offers: an even clearer presentation of the three major approaches to mediation: facilitative, evaluative, and transformative on-line negotiation and mediation will be included new topics including restorative justice and victim-offender mediation expanded materials on arbitration chapter on Conflict has been expanded to include different conflict styles
Author : Louis Kriesberg
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300051759
As the cold war comes to an end, world attention focuses even more on tensions in the Middle East. This timely and important book examines both the U.S.-USSR and Arab-Israeli conflicts since 1948 and uses the history of their negotiations--one successful, the other less so--to establish principles that will be helpful in resolving international conflicts now and in the future. Written by an authority on conflict resolution, the book is the first to emphasize the entire process of peacemaking instead of just one of its aspects. Examining the many de-escalation efforts in the U.S.-USSR and Arab-Israeli conflicts, Louis Kriesberg analyzes why initiatives are taken, why some initiatives are followed by negotiations and others are not, why some negotiations conclude in explicit agreements and others do not, and why some agreements become the basis for additional peacemaking moves and others do not even endure. Applying insights from theories of conflict resolution and international relations, Kriesberg builds and tests a general theory of the process of conflict termination, deepening our understanding of specific efforts toward peacemaking and drawing inferences about de-escalation strategies for policy making. In an epilogue, Kriesberg discusses the war in the Persian Gulf and shows how its resolution illustrates the relevance of the insights he provides.
Author : Tatsushi Arai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1135214778
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: creative ways of imagining and actualizing visions of conflict resolution. This is an ambitious question, which concerns human communities at many different levels, from families, regional-independence movements, and national governments, to inter-state alliances. The author argues that unconventional viability lies at the heart of creativity for transcending seemingly intractable inter-communal conflicts. More specifically, conflict resolution creativity is a social and epistemological process, whereby actors involved in a given social conflict learn to formulate an unconventional resolution option or procedure. Demystifying the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution and illuminating theories of creativity based on 17 international case studies, this book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, human security and IR. Tatsushi Arai is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont, USA. He has a PhD in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University, Washington DC, and extensive practical experience in the field.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309171733
The end of the Cold War has changed the shape of organized violence in the world and the ways in which governments and others try to set its limits. Even the concept of international conflict is broadening to include ethnic conflicts and other kinds of violence within national borders that may affect international peace and security. What is not yet clear is whether or how these changes alter the way actors on the world scene should deal with conflict: Do the old methods still work? Are there new tools that could work better? How do old and new methods relate to each other? International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War critically examines evidence on the effectiveness of a dozen approaches to managing or resolving conflict in the world to develop insights for conflict resolution practitioners. It considers recent applications of familiar conflict management strategies, such as the use of threats of force, economic sanctions, and negotiation. It presents the first systematic assessments of the usefulness of some less familiar approaches to conflict resolution, including truth commissions, "engineered" electoral systems, autonomy arrangements, and regional organizations. It also opens up analysis of emerging issues, such as the dilemmas facing humanitarian organizations in complex emergencies. This book offers numerous practical insights and raises key questions for research on conflict resolution in a transforming world system.
