Contemporary Conflict ResolutionPolity, 2011 M04 11 - 480 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 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 four new chapters added, on environmental conflict resolution, conflict resolution in the arts and popular culture, conflict resolution in the media and the communications revolution, and theories and critiques of the field. The authors argue that a new form of cosmopolitan conflict resolution is emerging, which offers a hopeful means for human societies to handle their conflicts non-violently and eventually to transcend and celebrate their differences. Part I offers a comprehensive survey of the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Part II sets the field within the context of rapid global change and addresses the controversies that have surrounded conflict resolution as it has entered the mainstream. Contemporary Conflict Resolution is essential reading for students of peace and security studies, conflict management and international politics, as well as for those working in non-governmental organizations and think-tanks. |
Contents
Concepts and Definitions | 3 |
Origins Foundations and Development of the Field | 35 |
CHAPTER 3The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels and the Measurement of Peace | 63 |
CHAPTER 4 Understanding Contemporary Conflict | 94 |
CHAPTER 5 Preventing Violent Conflict | 123 |
Peacekeeping | 147 |
Peacemaking | 171 |
CHAPTER 8 Postwar Reconstruction | 198 |
CHAPTER 12 Environmental Conflict Resolution | 293 |
CHAPTER 13 Gender and Conflict Resolution | 305 |
CHAPTER 14 Conflict Resolution and the Ethics of Intervention | 317 |
CHAPTER 15 Culture Religion and Conflict Resolution | 332 |
CHAPTER 16 Conflict Resolution in Art and Popular Culture | 347 |
CHAPTER 17 Conflict Resolution the Media and the Communications Revolution | 359 |
Dialogue Discourse and Radical Disagreement | 374 |
Theories and Critiques | 396 |
CHAPTER 9 Peacebuilding | 226 |
CHAPTER 10 Reconciliation | 246 |
Part II Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution | 263 |
CHAPTER 11 Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution | 265 |
CHAPTER 20 Conflict Resolution and the Future | 414 |
Notes | 427 |
References | 436 |
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