Contemporary Conflict Resolution
ISBN: 9780745649740 | 0745649742
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 4/19/2011
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Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The third edition of this hugely popular text explains the key concepts, charts the development of the field, evaluates successes and failures, and assesses the main current challenges and debates in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Existing material has been thoroughly updated and seven new chapters added, on conflict resolution in a changing international order; environmental confli... MORE
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| List of Boxes | |
| List of Maps | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Contemporary Conflict Resolution | |
| Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Concepts and Definitions | |
| Why a Third Edition? | |
| Conflict Resolution Models | |
| F... MORE | |
| Classical Ideas | |
| New Developments in Confict Resolution | |
| Terminology | |
| Structure of the Book | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Conflict Resolution: Origins, Foundations and Development of the Field | |
| Precursors: The First Generation, 1918-1945 | |
| Foundations: The Second Generation, 1945-1965 | |
| Consolidation: The Third Generation, 1965-1985 | |
| Reconstruction: The Fourth Generation, 1985-2005 | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Statistics of Deadly Quarrels and the Measurement of Peace | |
| The Conflict Domain | |
| Measuring Peace and Peacefulness | |
| Conflicts Trends | |
| Conflict Distribution | |
| Conflict Types | |
| Terrorism and Conflict | |
| Conflict Costs | |
| Conflict Mapping and Conflict Tracking | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Understanding Contemporary Conflict | |
| Theories and Frameworks | |
| The Context for an Evaluation of Conflict Resolution Theory | |
| Edward Azar’s Theory of Protracted Social Conflict (PSC) | |
| Have More Recent Theories Confirmed or Discredited PSC? | |
| An Interpretative Framework for Conflict Analysis | |
| The Analysis and Mapping of Complex Conflict Systems | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Preventing Violent Conflict | |
| Causation and Prevention of Wars | |
| Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change | |
| Deep or Structural Prevention | |
| Early Warning | |
| Light or Operational Prevention | |
| The Adoption of Conflict Prevention by International Organizations | |
| Evaluation of Conflict Prevention’s Effectiveness | |
| Case Study: Preventive Crisis Management in Kenya | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Containing Violent Conflict: Peacekeeping | |
| First- and Second-Generation UN Peacekeeping, 1956-1995 | |
| War Zones, War Economies and Cultures of Violence | |
| Third-Generation Peacekeeping: What Count As Peace Operations? | |
| Redefining Peace Operations | |
| Third-Generation Peacekeeping and Human Security | |
| Conflict Resolution and the Theoretical Debate About Peace Operations | |
| Case Study: Somalia 1991-2010 | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking | |
| The Challenge of Ending Violent Conflict | |
| De-escalation, Ripeness and Conditions for Ending Violent Conflict | |
| Mediation and Third-Party Intervention | |
| Peace Processes: Turning Points, Sticking Points and Spoilers | |
| Negotiations and Settlements | |
| Case Studies | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Post-War Reconstruction | |
| Postwar Peace Operations | |
| Intervention, Reconstruction and Withdrawal (IRW) Operations 1989-2009 | |
| Filling the Postwar Planning Gap | |
| The International Postwar Reconstruction Blueprint: Dilemmas and Tradeoffs | |
| Current Controversies | |
| Summary from a Conflict Resolution Perspective | |
| The Question of Evaluation | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Peacebuilding | |
| The Mainstreaming of Peacebuilding Models in International Policy | |
| Peacebuilding Debates and Discourses: Beyond Blueprints and Towards an Emancipatory Conflict Resolution Ethic | |
| Hybrid Peace and Peacebuilding from Below: a Conflict Resolution Perspective | |
| Conclusion: Peace Education and Peacebuilding from Below in the Discourse of Conflict Resolution | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Reconciliation | |
| Four Meanings of Reconciliation | |
| Between Separation and a Fusion of Identities | |
| Dealing with the Past: Trauma and Atrocity | |
| Peace or Justice? Not Exclusive Alternatives | |
| Alternative Paths to Reconciliation | |
| Reconciliation and Conßict Resolution: Going Down the Escalation Ladder | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution | |
| Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution | |
| The Nature of the International Collectivity | |
| The Arrow of the Future: Conflict Resolution and World Politics | |
| Conflict Resolution and International Institutions | |
| Conflict Resolution and International Law | |
| Conflict Resolution and Cosmopolitan Democracy | |
| Conflict Resolution and Terrorism | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Environmental Conflict Resolution | |
| Tragedies of the Commons | |
| Conflicts of Interest Over Climate Change | |
| Multilevel Negotiations | |
| International Negotiations | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Gender in Conflict Resolution | |
| Making Women Visible as Agents of Change | |
| Data-Collection and Case Studies | |
| Rethinking Conflict Resolution Theory | |
| Mainstreaming Gender in Policy-Making and the Empowerment of Women | |
| Case Study | |
| Recommended reading | |
| The Ethics of Intervention | |
| Conflict Resolution Roles | |
| Conflict Resolution Intervention Principles | |
| From Just War to Just Intervention | |
| Conclusion: International Ethics, International Law and | |
| International Politics | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Culture, Religion and Conflict Resolution | |
| How Far Down Does Cultural Variation Reach? | |
| Culture and Conflict Resolution: Three Responses | |
| Religion and Conßict Resolution: Islamic and Buddhist Approaches | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Conflict Resolution in Art and Popular Culture | |
| Creative Networks: Museums, Visual Arts, Music and Theatre in Conflict Resolution | |
| Sport and Conflict Resolution | |
| Building a Global Peace Culture | |
| Conclusion | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Conflict Resolution, the Media and the Communications Revolution | |
| The Mass Media and Conflict Resolution | |
| Conflict Resolution in the Age of Cybertechnology | |
| From Cyberwar to Cyberpeace | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Managing Linguistic Intractability: Dialogue, Discourse and Radical Disagreement | |
| Linguistic Intractability: the Challenge of Radical Disagreement When Conflict Resolution Fails | |
| Acknowledging, Exploring and Understanding Agonistic Dialogue | |
| Managing Radical Disagreement: Promoting a Strategic Engagement of Discourses | |
| The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: a Case Study | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Conflict Resolution: Theories and Critiques | |
| The Pluralist-Cosmopolitan Heartland of Conflict Resolution | |
| The Realist Critique | |
| The Critical Theory Critique | |
| The Post-Structural Critique | |
| Non-Western/Non-Northern Critiques | |
| Recommended reading | |
| Conflict Resolution and the Future | |
| Emergent Conflicts | |
| Future Drivers of Conflict | |
| The Conflict Resolution Response | |
| Conflict Resolution: the Next Generation | |
| Conclusion | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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Oliver Ramsbotham is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, Tom Woodhouse is Adam Curle Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford and Hugh Miall is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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