Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

Book SynopsisIntroduction.- 1. MINUSMA First Act (2013-2015): multilateralizing a French-African intervention and becoming the actor of an imposed peace?.- 2. MINUSMA Act Two (2016-2019): The seeds of divisions and a France-US divide over the very relevance of UN peacekeeping in a terrorist environment.- 3. MINUSMA Act Three (2020-2023): The return of the East-West divide and the road to the withdrawal of the host country consent.- 4. Lessons from MINUSMA for UN peace operations in a post-liberal international order.- 5. The return of power rivalries and the future of UN peace operations.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisPart 1. Theories of Process and a Metaphysics of/for Peace.- 1 Introduction: A Different Way of Thinking?.- 2 Balancing Static and Process Thinking: Nurturing Peaceful Modes of Thought.- 3 Process-Relational Metaphysics of/for Peace.- Part 2. Applications for an Integrative Transformation.- 4 Climate Change Through a Process Lens: A Global Systemic Crisis.- 5 Co-Creative Politics: A Process Approach to Left and Right.- 6 Contextual Economics: Nesting Static in Process.- 7 Conclusion: An Integrative Transformation.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theorizing a Gender-Just Political Citizenship in Deeply Divided Transitional Societies.- Chapter 3: Women's Public Participation and Political Activism During the Troubles.- Chapter 4: Gender, Citizen Participation and Women's Political Activity in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland.- Chapter 5: Women's Cross-Community Activities, Agonistic Dialogue and Transversal Politics in Belfast.- Chapter 6: Moving Forward Trajectories Towards Gender-Just Transversal Citizenship in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSport for Development and Peace: current challenges and global developments.- Sustainability in/of sports-for-development-and-peace: tensions, challenges, possibilities.- Understanding the potential contribution of sport to the sustainable development agenda.- Studying sport-for-development in Africa as a means of reciprocal agency.- Using Ubuntu pedagogy to transform sports-for-development in sub-Saharan Africa.- Promoting peace and tolerance among soccer fans: examples from Brazil.- Leveraging sports mega-events: positioning the sport-for-development-and-peace agenda.- The role of special events in sport-for-development : leveraging opportunities.- Bicycles, gender and development – feminist ethics, mutuality and reflexivity.- Towards community-led sport for development.- Sustainable sport for development ? The role of informal sport in refugee settlement.- Examining a student-led, Global North, refugee and asylum-seeker football.- Positive disruptive development : tackling youth violence through local sports interventions.- Physical activity, health & incarceration: meanings of sport & physical activity in prisons.- Sport for Development and Peace: managing movement and mainstream.

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Book Synopsis.- Chapter 1. Introduction: developing a comparative approach to understand the impact of quantitative data on the perception and management of armed conflict.- Part 1: Academic practices of conflict data collection and analysis .- Chapter 2. Mind over Materiel: Peace Research, Conflict Data, and the Politics of Quantification (Gray Anderson).- Chapter 3. Positivist misrecognition and conflict alarmism. The case of the Thucydides trap (Thomas Lindemann).- Part 2: Practitioner perceptions and use patterns.- Chapter 4. French Disconnection: Armed Conflict Databases usages in Diplomacy and Defense (Louise Beaumais & Frédéric Ramel).- Chapter 5. Navigating the Administrative Landscape of Conflict Early Warning Systems: From Managerial Optimism to Bureaucratic Realities (Louise Beaumais).- Chapter 6. Caught Between Will and Ability: Exploring the Use of Numbers in Media Coverage of Armed Conflict (Iris Lambert).- Chapter 7. Different jobs, similar problems: Exploring the effects of the self-sustaining (mis)uses of quantitative data on armed conflict by humanitarian workers and journalists (Louise Beaumais & Iris Lambert).- Part 3: Dissemination challenges and lessons .- Chapter 8. How to teach data awareness? Five pedagogic principles based on the lessons of the DATAWAR dissemination activities (Éric Sangar & Sami Makki).- Chapter 9. Holding Corporations Accountable? Data Awareness and Public Scrutiny in Endangered Democratic Settings (Sami Makki).- Chapter 10. (Femke Mulder).- Chapter 11. Conclusion (Ned Lebow).

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Reconceptualizing resilience: depletion and resource scarcity.- Chapter 3 Ayóm-ayómic political order: a case from the Southern Philippines.- Chapter 4 Transgenerational resilience: connecting past, present, and future.- Chapter 5 Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. An account of the episodes of conflict in Madagascar: tsy maintsy mipoaka ny sarom-bilany or the cover of the cooking pot will always explode one day or another'.- Chapter 2. Conflict recurrence, hybridity, trans-/cross-/multi-scalar analyses of peace and conflict dynamics.- Chapter 3. Liberal Peace in a Local Context.- Chapter 4. A Timid Local Turn in Peace: the Roles of Formal and Informal Local Infrastructures in Indigenous Peacebuilding in Madagascar.- Chapter 5. The powerful metanarratives.- Chapter 6. The resistant local narratives.- Chapter 7. Merina or Côtiers, Andriana or Andevo: the tales of the local elite -ethnicity and class Achieving national unity?.- Chapter 8. The grassroots in peace and conflict processes.- Chapter 9. Navigating Peacebuilding in Madagascar: A Cross/Inter/Multi-Scalar Approach to Conflict, Governance, and Reconciliation.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: A problem of many angles.- 2. International Law, Empire and Cyprus, 1878-1959.- 3. Fragile Independence - Rigid Constitutionalism, 1960-1963.- 4. The Cyprus Troubles, 1963-1964.- 5. Parallel Militarised Lives, 1965-1968.- 6. Epilogue.- 7. Conclusion.- Annexes I – III.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Young People as Movers and Shakers of Peace and Security.- Part One:  Emerging Trends in Youth and Peacebuilding.- Chapter 2: Young Women’s Everyday Digital Peacebuilding in the Philippines.- Chapter 3: From Margins to Movements: The Gendered Implementation of the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda in Iran.- Chapter 4: Local Voices, Global Impact: Youth, Peace, and Security Discourse Analysis in Northwestern Cameroon.- Chapter 5: Moldova's Youth in Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Processes.- Chapter 6: Reflections on Emerging Trends in Youth and Peacebuilding.- Part Two:  Youth and States: Challenges and Collaboration?.- Chapter 7: Congolese Youth Navigating Peace and Security Reducing Community-Level Violence.- Chapter 8: ??Youth on the Frontlines in Myanmar: what role for Youth, Peace and Security?.- Chapter 9: From Victims to Actors: Analyzing Youth Participation in Nigeria’s Peace and Security.- Chapter 10: Obligation Unfulfilled?: Navigating the Relationships between Youth, States and the Governance Architecture.- Part Three:  Regional Perspectives.- Chapter 11: Young People Shaping Southeast Asian Peace.- Chapter 12: Generation Peace: Youth-Driven Solutions for Security in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Chapter 13: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Enacting National Action Plans on Youth, Peace and Security in West Africa.- Chapter 14: Reflections on Regional Perspectives.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Theoretical Framework:  Peacebuilding After Civil War.- Chapter 2 What Explains the Stability of Peace settlement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).- Chapter 3  The role of Economic Development in the stability of the peace settlement between the KDP and the PUK.- Chapter 4 The third-party Role (the United States) in the stability of the peace settlement between the KDP and the PUK.- Chapter 5 Negative Peace in Iraqi Kurdistan.- Chapter 6 Transforming Negative Peace into Positive Peace in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Russo-Ukraine War: An Introduction to an Unfinished Project.- Chapter 2. Origins of the Russo-Ukraine War: A Brief Narrative.- Chapter 3. Trump-Proofing Ukraine Aid: NATO and EU Geopolitics.- Chapter 4. Ukraine Between Aid, Defeat and Resurgence.- Chapter 5. Seizing Russian Assets: Political Risk and Consequences.- Chapter 6. Escalation and the Rising Threat of Transatlantic Disunity.- Chapter 7. Outnumbered and Outgunned: Ukraine's War of Attrition.- Chapter 8. Russo-Ukraine War and the Rise of Populism.- Chapter 9. Ukraine at Geopolitical Crossroads: Survival, War and Diplomacy.

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Book SynopsisFriedenspolitik im Schatten des Krieges in der Ukraine einschließlich der geringen Möglichkeiten gewaltfreier Politik.- Waffenlieferungen oder Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen. Eine sinnvolle Alternative im Ukraine-Krieg?.- Ist die national-territoriale Struktur schuld an der Auflösung der Sowjetunion?.- Das Aufflammen des Krieges um Bergkarabach. Die Ohnmacht der Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik im Südkaukasus.- Der zweite bzw. dritte Demokratisierungsversuch in Serbien, Georgien, der Ukraine und schließlich auch in Armenien und Belarus.- Die Eskalation des israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikts und seine Ausweitung zur regionalen Krise.- Wege zur Entschärfung des Südtirol-Konflikts.- Die weltweite Infektion der Innen- und Außenpolitik durch das Corona-Virus.- Was ist politisch links, was ist rechts auch heute?.- Runter vom Sockel mit allen Rassisten. Das Verlangen nach einem Denkmalssturz von Aristoteles, Kolumbus, Luther, Kant, Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilson, Churchill, Gandhi und anderen.- Heinrich von Gagern, Präsident der deutschen von    Nationalversammlung im Jahre 1848 monarchistischer Hochverräter oder Wegbereiter der deutschen Demokratie?.- Der Willkommensherbst 2015. Folgen für die deutsche und europäische Flüchtlings-und Migrationspolitik.- Optionen für eine Beendigung des massenhaften Ertrinkens im Mittelmeer.- Wie ich zum Flüchtlingsprofessor mit menschenverachtenden, rassistischen Äußerungen gemacht wurde.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Die Geschichte der Ukraine – Von der Kiewer Rus bis zur Unabhängigkeit 1991.- Vom Wendejahr 1990 bis zum Euromaidan 2014.- Vom Euromaidan zur Ukraine-Krise.- Von der Ukraine-Krise zum Ukraine-Krieg.- Zusammenfassung und Fazit.

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of striving to prevent international conflict, major armed conflicts in the 1990s have taken place within national boundaries. The aim of this book is to consider the root causes of these internal conflicts, and to develop long-term conflict prevention strategies from here.

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Book SynopsisCentral to the current development debate is the importance of human welfare in the context of group conflict. When considering ethnic, racial and religious conflict, this debate draws us toward a 'political economy' of conflict. Moreover, notions of an economic paradigm have become prominent when international organizations debate conflict prevention. In looking closer at the political economy of conflict, this publication argues the need to assimilate into our thinking distinct social and ethical economies of conflict prevention. A social economy of conflict prevention considers the interplay of economic with structural and cultural factors in conflict, explaining a much neglected category of conflict, i.e. hidden conflict. The ethical economy of conflict prevention considers implicit ethical statements development practitioners use. From these statements arise ethical paradoxes that influence the evolving economic paradigm, in such way as to contradict one of its intrinsic desires, namely, to restrict conflict prevention strategies to effective technical interventions. Eventually, such narrow focus on technical interventions could identify this evolving paradigm as an 'economical' paradigm. In contrast, a rethinking of the ethical economy of conflict prevention provides a useful tool for international organizations when implementing a human rights-based approach to development and long-term conflict prevention.

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Book SynopsisLong caught between powerful neighbours, Ladakh is now a border region in the vast Indian nation state. In this detailed, anthropological study Fernanda Pirie traces the ways order has been created by, but also despite and in defiance of, the powerful external forces of religion, war, politics and wealth. Gradually a clear analysis unfolds of the subtle dynamics that have long characterised relations between local communities and centres of power and which can successfully be applied to the wider region. This exemplary study of conflict resolution brings to light the means by which small communities, both rural and urban, negotiate peace amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity, while at the same time critically re-examining theories that over-emphasize the explanatory power of Buddhism. This rich ethnographic account of local practices fills a conspicuous gap in secondary literature on Tibetan law.

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Book SynopsisThe realm of international peace and capacity development operations is a critical and contested space. Efforts to date have failed to meet expectations. This volume of work takes on the breadth of issues across the security-development spectrum, challenging conventional wisdom while pointing to ways in which improvements in this crucial space can be realised.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: ‘Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond’ Charles Hunt and Bryn Hughes Chapter 2: Understanding Mission Environments: Local Contexts and the Legitimation of Reforms Otwin Marenin Chapter 3: Redeeming Statebuilding’s Misconceptions: Power, Politics and Social Efficacy and Capital in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Eric Scheye Chapter 4: Grasping the Nettle of Nonstate Policing Bruce Baker Chapter 5: From Ideals to Reality in International Rule of Law Work – The Case of Papua New Guinea Sinclair Dinnen Chapter 6: How to Maintain Peace and Security in a Post-conflict Hybrid political order: The case of Bougainville Volker Boege Chapter 7: Policing, Rule of Law, State Capacity and Sustainable Peace in Timor-Leste Damien Kingsbury Chapter 8: Privileges and Immunities of United Nations Police Bruce Oswald and Adrian Bates Chapter 9: Assessing Police Peacekeeping: Systemisation not Serendipity Charles Hunt and Bryn Hughes Chapter 10: Understanding International Police Organisations: What the Researchers Do Not See Gordon Peake

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a wide selection of studies on the issues of law, land dispute and conflict (mediation) in Africa, reconsidering the role of state agents and other actors in these matters. The focus is on analyzing how citizens, state institutions and concerned (inter)national actors aim to find solutions to disputes, tension and conflict that are part of social life. The authors have approached the subject of Land, Law and Politics in Africa from a variety of disciplinary angles. The issues at stake comprise land access and land use, state politics and democratization efforts, the relationship between constitutional/state law and customary law, the challenges of urban and rural conflicts, border issues and the conceptions of (human) rights. On the basis of new empirical studies, the authors plead for a more holistic perspective on the above issues and on developmental policy in general. The book has 15 chapters in four thematic parts, focusing on historical and cultural aspects of politics and authority; land law and land disputes; constitutionalism and politics; and conflict studies. The volume is also a tribute to the work of Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009), a Dutch Africanist with a successful career as a scholar of constitutional and land law, focusing on West Africa.Table of ContentsContents Figures, tables and boxes ix 1 Introduction: Land, law and conflict mediation in Africa 1 Jan Abbink 2 Partenariat et interdisciplinarité: La voie alternative de Gerti Hesseling et du LASDEL 14 Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan & Mahaman Tidjani Alou HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS / ASPECTS HISTORIQUES ET CULTURELLES 3 Cultural models of power in Africa 25 Walter van Beek 4 Human rights in the traditional legal system of the Nkoya people of Zambia 49 Wim M.J. van Binsbergen 5 ‘Sons of the soil’: Autochthony and its ambiguities in Africa and Europe 80 Peter Geschiere 6 How can Africa develop? Reflections on theories, concepts and realities 99 Patrick Chabal LAND ISSUES AND ECONOMICS / PROBLEMES FONCIERS ET L’ECONOMIE 7 L’économie sociale et solidaire pour stimuler le développement ascendant et endogène 117 Abdou Salam Fall 8 Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: Continuities and emerging dynamics 141 Mayke Kaag, Yaram Gaye & Marieke Kruis 9 ‘More punitive penalties should be given to urban farmers’: Laws and politics surrounding urban agriculture in Eldoret, Kenya 162 Romborah R. Simiyu & Dick Foeken 10 Settling border conflicts in Africa peacefully: Lessons learned from the Bakassi dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria 191 Piet Konings POLITICS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW / POLITIQUE ET DROIT CONSTITUTIONNEL 11 Democracy deferred: Understanding elections and the role of donors in Ethiopia 213 Jan Abbink 12 La production d’un nouveau constitutionnalisme en Afrique : Internationalisation et régionalisation du droit constitutionnel 240 Babacar Kanté 13 Le juge constitutionnel et la construction de l’Etat de droit au Sénégal 258 Fatima Diallo 14 Sur les traces du droit vivant dans le labyrinthe du droit foncier et des pratiques locales au Mali 287 Moussa Djiré THE CHALLENGES OF LAW AND CONFLICT / LES DÉFIS DE DROIT FACE AU CONFLITS 15 Effectuating normative change in customary legal systems: An end to ‘widow chasing’ in northern Namibia? 315 Janine Ubink 16 Decentralization and the articulation of local and regional politics in Central Chad 334 Han van Dijk 17 Conflict mobility and the search for peace in Africa 353 Mirjam de Bruijn & Egosha E. Osaghae Appendix: Bibliography of prof. dr Gerti Hesseling 367 List of authors 381

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among young Japanese from the late 1980s until the present day. Discussing anti-war mobilizations, freeter unions, artists in the homeless movement, campus protest, anti-nuclear protest and activists engaged in support for social withdrawers, the author documents how new forms of activism developed hand-in-hand with experiments in using alternative spaces outside mainstream public areas and a struggle with the traumatic legacy of the failure of earlier protest movements. Despite the relative absence of open protest during much of the 1990s, the author demonstrates that this was an important preparatory period, full of experimentation, in which the foundations for today’s protest movements were laid. This book will be welcomed by students of sociological theory relating to Japan as well as those studying the trends and dynamics of contemporary ‘post-Bubble’ Japanese society.

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Book SynopsisWhat is the idea of ‘peace’? Is peace merely the absence of war, or can it also mean something else? Is peace a condition of emancipation, the status quo, or is it a system of hegemonic stability? How can peace be acquired whatever it may mean? And above all, what is the relationship between peace and war? This textbook aims to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to studies of peace and war, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Rather than providing students the answer of what the idea of peace means, this volume is designed to make and assist students to contemplate how peace can be thought by investigating its opposite: ‘war’, broadly defined.

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Book SynopsisThe Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and political societies, national and supranational societies. Such changes occur because over time cooperation between populations produces an active quest for peace, which is therefore a peace in constant movement. These are the concepts and lines of political development analysed in the book. The first part of the book deals with political walls and how they evolve into borders, or even disappear. The second part discusses possible and actual walls between empires, and also walls which may take shape within present-day empires. The third part analyses various ways of being of walls between and within states: Berlin, the Vatican State and Italy, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, Belfast, Northern European Countries, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the USA and Mexico. In addition, discussion centres on a possible new Iron Curtain between the two Mediterranean shores and new and different walls within the EU. The last part of the book looks at how walls and borders change as a result of cooperation between the communities on either side of them. The book takes on particular relevance in the present circumstances of the proliferation of walls between empires and states and within single states, but it also analyses processes of conflict and peace which come about as a result of walls. Contributors are: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Melania-Gabriela Ciot, Hastings Donnan, Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Alberto Gasparini, Maria Hadjipavlou, Max Haller, Neil Jarman, Thomas Lunden, Domenico Mogavero, Alejandro Palma, Dennis Soden.Trade Review"We can say with certainty that the book "The Walls between Conflict and the World" is becoming particularly relevant in the current conditions of the spread of walls between empires and states, including within one state. In parallel, the book analyzes the processes of conflict and peace that occur as a result of the construction of walls." [English translation, original review in Russian] - Yuri Sidelnikov, in: International Futures Research Academy (IFRA), Russian Division — MAIB, 17 February 2017Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Graphs Foreword List of Contributors Introduction. Walls: ways of being, ways of functioning, ways of being transformed Alberto Gasparini PART 1: WALLS DIVIDING, WALLS UNITING 1. Walls dividing, walls uniting: Peace in fusion, peace in separation Alberto Gasparini PART 2: MACRO WALLS AND MACRO NETWORKS 2. Why empires build walls: The new Iron Curtain between Africa and Europe Max Haller 3. The Enlargement process and the “Dividing lines of Europe” Melania-Gabriela Ciot 4. Are walls a National Security issue? A view from the United States-Mexican border Dennis Soden and Alejandro Palma PART 3: STATE, SECURITY AND ETHNIC-POLITICAL WALLS 5. The Berlin wall Anneli Ute Gabany 6. Vatican City-Italy wall: Consolidating social and political peace Domenico Mogavero 7. The “crossing” along the divide: The Cypriot experience Maria Hadjipavlou 8. Israel-Palestine: Concrete fences and fluid borders Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti 9. Ordinary everyday walls: Normalising exception in segregated Belfast Hastings Donnan and Neil Jarman PART 4: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WALL? 10. European twin cities: Models, examples and problems of formal and informal co-operation Thomas Lundén 11. Scenario for the new town Gorizia/Gorica Alberto Gasparini Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus, but it also covers other areas, such as parts of Russia and Iran. Central Eurasia is subject to a number of ethnoterritorial conflicts. Yet at the same time, a large number of ethnic groups, speaking different languages and following different religions, coexist peacefully in this macro-region. Babak Rezvani explains ethno-territorial conflicts not only by focusing on these conflicts but also by comparing all cases of conflict and coexistence in (post-)Soviet Central Asia, the Caucasus and Fereydan, the so-called Iranian little Caucasus. Aiming at formulating new theories, this book makes use of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), as well as case studies and statistical analyses. It provides an innovative and interesting contribution to Eurasian Studies and Conflict Analysis, and at the same time demonstrates a detailed knowledge of the relevant literature. Based on thorough research, the study offers a deep and insightful history of the areas and conflicts concerned.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One. Introduction The Regions The Structure of the Book Chapter Two. Theoretical Framework Ethno-Territorial Conflict Ethnos and Ethnicity State, Nation and Nationalism The Causes of Ethno-Territorial Conflict Power of Culture: Religion, Language and Ethnic Kinship Power of History: Traumatic Peak Experiences Political and Economic Grievances State in Disarray Ethno-Political Systems and Opportunity Structures Ethno-Geographic Configuration Chapter Three. The Legacy of the Iranian and Soviet Ethno-Political Systems and Policies The Soviet Union and Its Successor States The Soviet Nationalities Policy: Historical Underpinnings The Soviet Union on the Eve of its Collapse and Beyond Iran Ethnic and Religious Policies in Iran: Historical Underpinnings Territorial Administrative Policies in Iran: Historical Underpinnings Ethnic, Religious and Territorial Administrative Policies in Iran: The Contemporary Situation Conclusion: Ethno-Political Systems and Ethno-Territorial Conflict Chapter Four. Methods Ethno-Territorial Groups and Encounters Ethno-Territorial Conflict Explaining Conditions Analyzing the Dataset Chapter Five. Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia Political-Territorial History of the South Caucasus The Karabakh Conflict Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in Georgia: South Ossetia and Abkhazia Political-Territorial History of the North Caucasus The Ossetian-Ingush Conflict over Prigorodny Wars in Chechnya Political Territorial History of Central Asia The Tajikistani Civil War and the Role Played by Tajiks, Uzbeks and Pamiris Uzbek-Kyrgyz Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan Conclusion: Patterns of Ethno-Territorial Conflict Chapter Six. Analysis: Searching for Explanations The Myth of Shatterbelts Testing the Explaining Conditions Separately Qualitative Comparative Analysis Conclusion Chapter Seven. It Was a Winter Morning: Conclusions Research Results Discussion Recommendations References Index

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Book SynopsisA Future without Borders (FWB) offers an explanation of why the recent, but by now distant, movements of the “Occupy Wall Street” activists have repeated themselves across the globe. The book demonstrates some of the processes inherent to an adapting cosmopolitanism (a call for civility, a call for Justice, a call for a collective responsibility or accountability) that is not individualistic in nature. Until recently, the statal/national problems understood as politico-economic failures were conceived as isolated problems, failures of statal institutions that are particular to certain countries. FWB contests the Westphalian logic that explains these circumstances, as national failures and argues instead that the conditions be assessed as extensions of the global economic and ideological failures that they surely are. Contributors are: Anton Allahar, Arnold Farr, Andrew Fiala, Pierre-André Gagnon, Bill Gay, Kurtis Hagen, Linden F. Lewis, Tracey Nicholls, Richard T. Peterson, Jorge Rodriguez, Eddy M. Souffrant, and Hilbourne A. Watson.     Table of ContentsI. Introduction Peace and Cosmopolitanism: On Imagining a Future without Borders Eddy M. Souffrant II. Theorizing the need for cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism, Anarchism, and Injustice at the Border Andrew Fiala Sovereignty and Instances of Violence: Colonial and neo-Colonial moments Anton Allahar If Only They Were Money: Plights and Flights of Environmental Refugees Tracey Nicholls III. Theorizing paths to cosmopolitanism Global Capitalism, Sovereign State Violence, and Human Insecurity Hilbourne Watson Violence in Latin America: Cultural Convergences for an Ethical Communitarianism Jorge M. Rodríguez-Martínez Sovereignty and the Realm of the Social Linden Lewis Project for a New Confucian Century Kurtis Hagen IV. Unclenching fists and reaching out to the world Inheriting Wrong Life and One-Dimensional Politics: Obama, Messianism, and the Role of Prophetic Critique Arnold L. Farr The Senate against Obama’s International Climate Ambitions Pierre-André Gagnon The “Browning of Terror” during the Obama Years: Linking of Queer, Black, Brown & Foreign Bodies to Terrorism William C. Gay Nonviolence in an Age of Political Catastrophe Richard Peterson Biographies of Contributors Bibliographies

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Book SynopsisSpecter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World. Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee.Trade Review"These essays illustrate how different perceptions of peace and violence develop from socially constructed understandings of these concepts that, in turn, have often led to misunderstandings rooted in cultural difference. While studies of these misunderstandings, specifically, have previously received little scholarly attention of the colonial Atlantic, this compilation illuminates the importance and need for these studies. The traditional focus on violence has masked the presence and power of peace. The authors in this volume address this deficit and illustrate the central role peace and peacemaking played in affecting imperial and colonial relations in the American Atlantic from the Age of Exploration and Conquest through the Age of Revolutions." Shayna Mehas, Elon University, in World History Connected 17.1 https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/17.1/br_mehas.htmlTable of ContentsForeword  Wayne E. Lee Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Relevance of Peace in Early American History  Michael Goode 1 Imperial Peace and Restraints in the Dutch-Iberian Wars for Brazil, 1624–1654  Mark Meuwese 2 “In Peace with all, or at least in Warre with None”: Tributary Subjects and the Negotiation of Political Subordination in Greater Virginia, 1676–1730  Dylan Ruediger 3 Violent Restraint: Keeping Peace in British America and India  Brendan Gillis 4 Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World  Geoffrey Plank 5 Nonviolence, Positive Peace, and American Pre-revolutionary Protest, 1765–1775  Micah Alpaugh 6 “Avoiding the Fate of Haiti”: Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial Venezuela  Cristina Soriano 7 The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815–1837  Margot Minardi Afterword: Peace and the End(s) of American History  John Smolenski Index

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Book SynopsisMany judgments regarding what is good or bad, possible or impossible, rely upon unspoken assumptions or frameworks which are used to view and evaluate events and actions. Philosophers uncover these hidden aspects of thoughts and judgments, scrutinizing them for soundness, validity, and fairness. These assumptions and frameworks permeate the topics of violence, nonviolence, war, conflict, and reconciliation; and these assumptions influence how we address these problems and issues. The papers in this volume explore what kind of assumptions and frameworks would be needed in order for people to see nonviolence as a sensible approach to contemporary problems. Topics include conceptions of positive peace, nonviolence and international structures, and perspectives on peace education. Contributors are Elizabeth N. Agnew, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, William C. Gay, Ronald J. Glossop, Ian M. Harris, John Kultgen, Joseph C. Kunkel, Douglas Lewis, Danielle Poe and Harry van der Linden.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Michael Patterson Brown and Katy Gray Brown Part 1:Nonviolence and Positive Peace 1 The Practice of Peace: Thinking, Speaking, Acting  William C. Gay 2 Can You Hear Me Now? The Element of Listening in Positive Peace  Elizabeth N. Agnew 3 The Ethics of Care and Violence  Andrew Fitz-Gibbon 4 Freedom, Oppression, and the Ethics of Ambiguity  Douglas Lewis Part 2:Nonviolence and International Structures 5 The Impotence of Moral Arguments in the Debate Over Nuclear Deterrence  John Kultgen 6 The U.S. Constitution, Human Rights, and Iraq  Joseph C. Kunkel 7 Questioning Combatant’s Privilege in Unjust Wars  Harry van der Linden 8 The International Criminal Court: Progressing despite U.S. Opposition  Ronald J. Glossop Part 3:Nonviolence and Peace Education 9 A Philosophic Framework for Peace Education  Ian M. Harris 10 Perspectives from a Catholic, Marianist University on Teaching Peace  Danielle Poe 11 Dewey’s Political Ethics as Applied Philosophy that Advances International Peace  William C. Gay Index

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Book SynopsisIn Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of 'threat to the peace' under Article 39 of the UN Charter Tamsin Phillipa Paige conducts a critical discourse analysis of UN Security Council meetings in relations to ‘threat to the peace’. She then synthesises these case studies to demonstrate how each member of the P5 defines the phrase.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements Introductory Overview Part 1: Theory and Methodology 1 Law and Politics in the Time of the Prohibition on the Use of Force 2 Critical Discourse Analysis and Case Study Selection Part 2: Case Studies 3 Spain 1946 (Resolutions 4 (1946), 7 (1946) and 10 (1946)) 4 Palestine 1948 (Resolution 54 (1948)) 5 5Portuguese African Territories 1963 Portuguese African Territories 1963 (Resolution 180 (1963)) 6 Apartheid in South Africa 1963–77 (Resolutions 181, 182 (1963), 190, 191 (1964), 282 (1973), 311 (1972), 417 and 418 (1977)) 7 Vietnamese Intervention into Cambodia 1978–79 8 US–Iran Hostage Crisis 1979 (Resolutions 457 and 461 (1979)) 9 Namibian Occupation by South Africa 1981–83 (Resolutions 457 and 461 (1979)) 10 Repression of a Civilian Population – Iraq 1991 (Resolution 688 (1991)) 11 Civil War in Yugoslavia 1991 (Resolution 713 (1991)) 12 The Coup in Haiti 1991–93 (Resolution 841) 13 Extradition of Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Suspects and Access to Information Related to UTA Flight 772 Bombing, 1992 (Resolutions 731 and 748 (1992)) 14 Rwandan Civil War and Genocide 1993–94 (Resolutions 812 (1993), 846 (1993), 872 (1993), 893 (1994), 909 (1994), 912 (1994), and 918 (1994)) 15 Afghanistan 1999 (Resolution 1267) 16 East Timor Intervention 1999 (Resolution 1264) 17 Small Arms Trade (Resolution 2117 and the Arms Trade Treaty) 18 AIDSEpidemic in Africa and Peacekeeping Operations 2000–05 19 Non-Proliferation of wmds: Resolutions 1441 (2002), 1540 (2004), 1696 (2006), 1718 (2006) 20 UK and US Use of Force against Iraq 2003 21 Sexual Violence as a Tactic of War: ‘Women and Peace and Security’, and ‘Children and Armed Conflict’ (Resolutions 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009), and 1960 (2010)) 22 Piracy: Somalia and Gulf of Guinea 23 Civil War in Syria 24 Chemical Weapons Resolution 2118 Part 3: Meta-synthesis 25 Meta-Synthesis Overview 26 General Meta-Synthesis Observations 27 Team America: World Police? 28 London Calling 29 Vive la France 30 From Russia with Love 31 Enter the Dragon Conclusion Annex Potential Case Studies Coding Results Tables Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIrit Back’s book From Sudan to South Sudan: IGAD and the Role of Regional Mediation in Africa comprehensively analyses the full achievements, shortcomings, and implications of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) mediation efforts in Sudan and South Sudan. IGAD’s active mediation was a primary force behind the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the south and the north that eventually resulted in South Sudan’s declaration of independence in 2011. The euphoria of this historic achievement was, however, almost immediately overshadowed by internal strife, which has, since 2013, escalated to a large-scale conflict in the new-born nation that demanded IGAD’s renewed mediation efforts. The book offers readers new insights and perspectives to apply when seeking to develop a more balanced understanding of Africa’s contemporary conflicts and the efforts to resolve them. More specifically, the book will also help readers to better comprehend the potential role of regional mediation in East Africa, a region with a turbulent history in the post-Cold War era.Trade Review[...] 'A specialist in conflict management and the role of international organizations in Africa, Back (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) here details the function of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the long, arduous mediation process that culminated in the breakaway of Sudan's southern region and its reconstitution as the then-newly sovereign state of South Sudan in 2011. [...] 'Well-written and readable, this important case study is likely to interest mostly academic and policy specialists on conflict management in Africa and elsewhere'. A. Magid, emeritus, SUNY at Albany, in CHOICE, April 2021 [...] 'From Sudan to South Sudan is superbly written and provides a compelling case study that is at once a primer on IGAD’s role as peacemaker, and also on subregional peace mediation in Africa more generally. As such, it would be a highly suitable companion case for any curriculum in conflict management, or an excellent addition to a course on the politics of Africa or Africa’s international relations'. Christopher Day, College of Charleston, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 54, No. 2 (2021), pp. 248-249Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Acronyms Introduction 1The Emerging Role of Regional Organizations in Post-Cold War Africa 2From Ecology to Mediation: IGAD First Efforts as a Regional Mediator 3We Cannot Negotiate and Fight: IGAD’s Role in Achieving the CPA 4Spring of Hope: IGAD’s Mediation Efforts, 2005–2014 5Winter of Despair: IGAD Mediation Efforts, 2015–2018 6A Comparative View of IGAD’s Mediation in Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Somaliland  Conclusion  Epilogue  Bibliography 12  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) includes recent studies on the Lega Sacra War of 1683-1699 against the Ottoman Empire, the Peace treaties of Carlowitz (1699), and on the general impact of the conflict upon Modern Europe and the Balkans. With its contributions written by well-known international specialists in the field, the volume demonstrates that sometimes important conflicts tend to be forgotten with time, overshadowed by more spectacular wars, peace congresses or diplomatic alliances. The “Long War” of 1683-1699 is a case in point. By re-thinking and re-writing the history of the conflict and the subsequent peacemaking between a Christian alliance and the Ottoman state at the end of the 17th century, new perspectives, stretching into the present era, for the history of Europe, the Balkans and the Near East are brought into discussion. Contributors are: Tatjana Bazarova, Maurits van den Boogert, John Paul Ghobrial, Abdullah Güllüoğlu, Zoltan Györe, Colin Heywood, Lothar Höbelt, Erica Ianiro, Charles Ingrao, Dzheni Ivanova, Kirill Kochegarov, Dariusz Kołodziejzcyk, Hans Georg Majer, Ivan Parvev, Arno Strohmeier.Table of Contents Preface  About the Authors  Introduction Part 1: The War of 1683–1699 – Political Strategies and Balance of Power in Europe  1On the Road to Carlowitz: Visions of Ottoman Diplomacy in the Letters of Thomas Coke, 1691–1694  Jean-Paul A. Ghobrial  2‘This Great Work’: Lord Paget and the Processes of English Mediating Diplomacy in the Latter Stages of the Sacra Lega War, 1697–1698  Colin Heywood  3The Spoils of Peace: What the Dutch Got Out of Carlowitz  Maurits H. van den Boogert  4The War of 1683–1699 and the Beginning of the Eastern Question  Ivan Parvev Part 2: The Sacra Lega War Viewed by the Sublime Porte  5Ottoman Diplomacy in the First Years (1683–1685) of the Ottoman “Long War”  Abdullah Güllüoğlu  6Ottoman Subjects, Habsburg Allies. The Reaya of the Chiprovtsi Region (Northwestern Bulgaria) on the Front Line, 1688–1690  Dzheni Ivanova  7Ottoman Knowledge of the Imperial Commanders  Hans Georg Majer Part 3: Time for War, Time for Peace  8From Slankamen to Zenta: The Austrian War Effort in the East during the 1690s  Lothar Höbelt  9The Habsburgs and the Holy League: Religion or Realpolitik?  Charles Ingrao  10From the ‘Eternal Peace’ to the Treaty of Carlowitz: Relations between Russia, the Sublime Porte and the Crimean Khanate (1686–1699)  Kirill Kochegarov  11The Treaty of Carlowitz in Polish Memory – A Date Better Forgotten?  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  12The Symbolic Making of the Peace of Carlowitz: The Border Crossing of Count Wolfgang IV of Oettingen-Wallerstein during His Mission as Imperial Grand Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (1699–1701)  Arno Strohmeyer  13The Treaty of Carlowitz and its Impact on Russian-Ottoman Relations, 1700–1710  Tatiana Bazarova Part 4: Early Modern Demographic and Economic Context  14War and Demography: The Case of Hungary 1521–1718  Zoltán Györe  15Venice after Carlowitz: Change and Challenge in Eighteenth-century Venetian Policy  Erica Ianiro  Concluding Remarks  Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries. Contributors are Michael Aeby, Yvonne Akpasom, Katharina P.W. Döring, Ulf Engel, Fana Gebresenbet Erda, Linnéa Gelot, Amandine Gnanguênon, Toni Haastrup, Jens Herpolsheimer, Alin Hilowle, Jamie Pring, Lilian Seffer, Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Antonia Witt, Dawit Yohannes WondemagegnehuTrade Review[...] '„The book’s focus on methods may be one of its more enduring contributions. Long after more empirical and policy-orientated studies have moved on to focus on emergent developments and other cases, this book’s invitation to be more methodologically transparent, reflexive, and creative, is one many other researchers could heed'. Aly Verjee, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, in African Security Review (2022)

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Book SynopsisPetra Schönemann-Behrens provides an informative review of the life and times of Alfred H. Fried (1864-1921), a significant if underappreciated German pacifist of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In response to the militarism and international anarchy of the European states, Fried developed his unique notion of “revolutionary” or “scientific” pacifism, differentiating it from reform pacifism, in order to address the material causes of war. As theorist, practitioner, and journalist, Fried advanced radical ideas at the time: the formation of a pan-European union, the establishment of an effective international court of arbitration, the elimination of a secretive diplomatic class, and the expansion of international economic and cultural cooperation. This book is a translation of the German biography Alfred H. Fried: Friedensaktivist – Nobelpreisträger, published by Römerhof Verlag in 2011, and commemorates the 100th anniversary of Fried’s death.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments 1 Childhood and Youth  1 The Early Years  2 Apprenticeship with a Bookseller and Fried’s First Experiences of Pacifism 2 The Berlin Years 1884–1903  1 From Apprentice Bookseller to Publisher  2 Alfred H. Fried and Company  3 The Path to the Peace Movement  4 Experiments   4.1 Fried’s Hygienic Trash Collection and Removal Apparatus   4.2 The Self-Dating Envelope   4.3 An Election Atlas   4.4 Supplemental Encyclopedia  5 The Conference at The Hague 1899   5.1 The Founding of the Friedens-Warte in 1899  6 Consolidation Attempts around 1900   6.1 Esperanto  7 Flight from Berlin (1903) 3 The Vienna Years, 1903–1915  1 A Reluctant Return Home  2 Fried, von Suttner, and the Austrian Peace Society  3 Work as a Journalist to 1907  4 Impulses from the Hague  5 The Foundations of Revolutionary Pacifism, 1908  6 Integration and Recognition  7 The Association of International Understanding  8 Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 and Honorary Doctorate in 1913  9 Before the Great War 4 In Swiss Exile 1914/15–1919  1 The Move to Berne  2 1916: In the Crossfire of the Critics  3 Swiss Exile from 1917 to the End of the War  4 After the War – the Final Months in Switzerland 5 Everywhere a Foreigner  1 Back to Vienna, via Munich  2 Final Works and Plans  3 Obituaries and Testimonials 6 Survivors and Successors  1 Therese Fried  2 Fried and German Pacifism after 1921 7 Die Friedens-Warte  1 The First Years 1899–1904  2 Consolidation Phase 1904–1909  3 Period of Growth, 1910–1914  4 War Censorship and the Path into Exile  5 Die Friedens-Warte in Swiss Exile  6 The Friedens-Warte after the War, 1918–1919  7 The Conflict over Succession, 1921–1924  8 The Friedens-Warte under Hans Wehberg, 1924 – 1962  9 A New Beginning in 1974 Epilogue Appendix 1: To my beloved wife Appendix 2: Program of Revolutionary Pacifism, 1908 Bibliography Index

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