Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts

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Polity, 2005 M12 8 - 399 pages
Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The second edition of this hugely popular text charts the development of the field from its pioneers to its contemporary exponents and offers an assessment of its achievements and the challenges it faces in today's changed security environment. Existing material has been thoroughly updated and new chapters added on peacebuilding from below, reconciliation, responses to terror, gender issues, the ethics of intervention, dialogue, discourse and disagreement, culture and conflict resolution, and future directions for the field. the authors argue that a new form of cosmopolitan conflict resolution is emerging, which offers a hopeful means for human societies to transcend and celebrate their differences.

Part I offers a comprehensive survey of the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Part II enters into the controversies that have surrounded conflict resolution as it has become part of the mainstream. Contemporary Conflict Resolution is essential reading for students of peace and security studies, conflict management and international politics, as well as those working in non-government organizations or think-tanks.

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Contents

Concepts and Definitions
3
Origins Foundations and Development of the Field
32
3 Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
55
4 Understanding Contemporary Conflict
78
5 Preventing Violent Conflict
106
Peacekeeping
132
Peacemaking
159
8 PostWar Reconstruction
185
11 Terror and Global Justice
249
12 Gender in Conflict Resolution
265
13 The Ethics of Intervention
275
14 Dialogue Discourse and Disagreement
288
15 Culture Religion andConflict Resolution
302
Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution
316
Notes
332
References
342

9 Peacebuilding
215
10 Reconciliation
231
PART II COSMOPOLITAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
247

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