Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly ConflictsSince 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
Introduction to Conflict Resolution Concepts and Definitions | 3 |
Conflict Resolution Models | 8 |
Framework Models | 9 |
Classical Ideas | 13 |
New Developments in Conflict Resolution | 22 |
Terminology | 27 |
Structure of the Book | 30 |
Recommended reading | 31 |
Evaluating Cases | 211 |
Conclusion | 213 |
Recommended reading | 214 |
Peacebuilding | 215 |
The Idea of Peacebuilding From Below | 217 |
The Mainstreaming of Peacebuilding Models in International Policy | 221 |
Implementing Peacebuilding From Below | 222 |
Peacebuilding in Kosovo 19992004 | 227 |
Conflict Resolution Origins Foundations and Development of the Field | 32 |
The First Generation 19181945 | 34 |
The Second Generation 19451965 | 39 |
The Third Generation 19651985 | 47 |
The Fourth Generation 19852005 | 54 |
Statistics of Deadly Quarrels | 55 |
Conflict Trends | 59 |
Conflict Distribution | 62 |
Conflict Types | 63 |
Terrorism and Conflict | 67 |
Conflict Costs | 72 |
Conflict Mapping and Conflict Tracking | 74 |
Recommended reading | 77 |
Understanding Contemporary Conflict | 78 |
The Context for an Evaluation of Conflict Resolution Theory | 80 |
Edward Azars Theory of Protracted Social Conflict PSC | 84 |
Have More Recent Theories Confirmed or Discredited PSC? | 89 |
An Interpretative Framework for Conflict Analysis | 96 |
Conclusion | 104 |
Recommended reading | 105 |
Preventing Violent Conflict | 106 |
Causes and Preventors of War | 107 |
Early Warning | 112 |
Deep or Structural Prevention | 114 |
Light or Operational Prevention | 121 |
International Organizations and the Evolution of Norms and Policies | 123 |
Recent Experience and Case Studies | 126 |
Conclusion | 130 |
Recommended reading | 131 |
Containing Violent Conflict Peacekeeping | 132 |
First and SecondGeneration UN Peacekeeping 19561995 | 134 |
War Zones War Economies and Cultures of Violence | 138 |
To Intervene or Not to Intervene? New Requirements for ThirdGeneration Peacekeeping | 141 |
ThirdGeneration Peacekeeping and Human Security | 147 |
Case Studies | 150 |
The Transformationist Critique | 153 |
Recommended reading | 158 |
Ending Violent Conflict Peacemaking | 159 |
The Challenge of Ending Violent Conflict | 160 |
Conflict Resolution and War Ending | 162 |
Deescalation Ripeness and Conditions for Ending Violent Conflict | 165 |
Mediation and ThirdParty Intervention | 167 |
Turning Points Sticking Points and Spoilers | 171 |
Negotiations and Settlements | 174 |
Case Studies | 176 |
Conclusion | 184 |
PostWar Reconstruction | 185 |
Intervention Reconstruction Withdrawal IRW Operations 19892004 | 188 |
Filling the PostWar Planning Gap | 192 |
The International PostWar Reconstruction Blueprint | 194 |
A Conflict Resolution Assessment of Intervention Reconstruction and Withdrawal Operations 19892004 | 197 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Recommended reading | 230 |
Reconciliation | 231 |
Between Separation and a Fusion of Identities | 232 |
Trauma and Atrocity | 233 |
Peace or Justice? Not Exclusive Alternatives | 236 |
Alternative Paths to Reconciliation | 237 |
Going Down the Escalation Ladder | 242 |
Recommended reading | 245 |
Terror and Global Justice | 249 |
Conflict Resolution and Terrorism | 251 |
Conflict Resolution as a Response | 256 |
Democracy as an Antidote to Terrorism? | 258 |
Persuasion Reducing Motivation and Support | 259 |
Denial Reducing Vulnerability and Defeating Hardliners | 262 |
Coordination Maximizing International Efforts | 263 |
Recommended reading | 264 |
Gender in Conflict Resolution | 265 |
Making Women Visible as Agents of Change | 266 |
DataCollection and Case Studies | 268 |
Rethinking Conflict Resolution Theory | 270 |
Mainstreaming Gender in PolicyMaking and the Empowerment of Women | 272 |
Recommended reading | 274 |
The Ethics of Intervention | 275 |
Conflict Resolution Roles | 276 |
Conflict Resolution Intervention Principles | 277 |
From Just War to Just Intervention | 283 |
International Ethics International Law and International Politics | 286 |
Recommended reading | 287 |
Dialogue Discourse and Disagreement | 288 |
Interactive Conflict Resolution | 289 |
Dialogical Conflict Resolution and Gadamerian Hermeneutics | 291 |
Discursive Conflict Transformation and Habermasian Critical Theory | 295 |
Taking Radical Disagreement Seriously in Conflict Resolution | 301 |
Culture Religion and Conflict Resolution | 302 |
How Far Down Does Cultural Variation Reach? | 303 |
Three Responses | 307 |
Islamic and Buddhist Approaches | 310 |
Conclusion | 315 |
Future Directions Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution | 316 |
The Nature of the International Collectivity | 317 |
Conflict Resolution and World Politics | 319 |
International Law | 323 |
International Intervention | 324 |
The United Nations | 325 |
The Next Generation | 327 |
Notes | 332 |
References | 342 |
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