Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

Book SynopsisVolume one of the most authoritative and revealing account yet of how the Irish Government managed the Northern Ireland peace process and helped broker a political settlement to end the conflict there. Based on eight extended interviews with key officials and political leaders, this book provides a compelling picture of how the peace process was created and how it came to be successful. Covering areas such as informal negotiation, text and context, strategy, working with British and American Governments, and offering perceptions of other players involved in the dialogue and negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the power-sharing arrangements that followed, this dramatic account will become a major source for academics and interested readers alike for years to come. Volume one deals with the Irish Government and Sunningdale (1973) and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) and Volume two on the Good Friday Agreement (1998) and beyond.Trade Review‘An outstanding contribution to the contemporary history of Britain and Ireland. While historical analysis and judgments are always subject to revision, these first-hand accounts by key participants in the story of the Troubles and the peace process are irreplaceable.’Sir John Chilcot GCB‘Graham Spencer has a remarkable ability to get those most directly involved in the Northern Ireland peace process to reveal the deepest secrets. Unmissable.’Jonathan Powell, former British Government chief negotiator on Northern Ireland and author of Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts‘Masterful and magisterial in their sweep and depth, no account of the Northern Ireland peace process is complete without reference to these two volumes. The interviews are meticulously framed, capturing the shifting nuances in seemingly intractable positions and how they were exploited. A magnificent achievement.’Padraig O’Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, University of Massachusetts, Boston -- .Table of ContentsNotes on intervieweesAcknowledgementsBrief chronology of the Troubles and origins of the Peace ProcessParties, offices and organisationsKey documentsIntroduction1 Sunningdale and the problem of power-sharing: An interview with Sean Donlon2 Fermenting the Irish Dimension – Sunningdale to the Anglo-Irish Agreement: An interview with Noel Dorr3 Political imagination and the Anglo-Irish Agreement: An interview with Michael Lillis4 Tightening Anglo-Irish relations: An interview with Daithi O’Ceallaigh 5 Foundations and principles of a peace process: An interview with Sean O hUiginn6 Back-channels and the possibilities of movement: An interview with Martin Mansergh7 Critical minimums and the expectations of change: An interview with Tim O’Connor8 The management of dialogue: An interview with Dermot GallagherConclusion

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Book SynopsisVolume two of the most authoritative and revealing account yet of how the Irish Government managed the Northern Ireland peace process and helped broker a political settlement to end the conflict there. Based on nine extended interviews with key officials and political leaders including Bertie Ahern, this book provides a compelling picture of how the peace process was created and how it came to be successful. Covering areas such as informal negotiation, text and context, strategy, working with British and American Governments, and offering perceptions of other players involved in the dialogue and negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the power-sharing arrangements that followed, this dramatic account will become a major source for academics and interested readers alike for years to come. Volume One deals with the Irish Government and Sunningdale (1973) and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) and Volume Two on the Good Friday Agreement (1998) and beyond.Trade Review‘An outstanding contribution to the contemporary history of Britain and Ireland. While historical analysis and judgments are always subject to revision, these first-hand accounts by key participants in the story of the Troubles and the peace process are irreplaceable.’Sir John Chilcot GCB‘Graham Spencer has a remarkable ability to get those most directly involved in the Northern Ireland peace process to reveal the deepest secrets. Unmissable.’Jonathan Powell, former British Government chief negotiator on Northern Ireland and author of Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts‘Masterful and magisterial in their sweep and depth, no account of the Northern Ireland peace process is complete without reference to these two volumes. The interviews are meticulously framed, capturing the shifting nuances in seemingly intractable positions and how they were exploited. A magnificent achievement.’Padraig O’Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, University of Massachusetts, Boston -- .Table of ContentsNotes on intervieweesBrief Chronology of the Peace Process from 1997Parties, Offices and OrganisationsKey DocumentsIntroduction1: The Aspirations of Text: an interview with Rory Montgomery2: Forums and North-South Relations: an interview with Wally Kirwan3. Strategy and Trajectory: an interview with David Donoghue4. Groundwork and Building Closeness: an interview with Ray Bassett5. Legal and Political Convergence: an interview with David Byrne6. Putting Arms Beyond Use: an interview with Tim Dalton7. Policy and Pragmatism: an interview with Eamonn McKee8. The Politics of Engagement: an interview with Liz O’Donnell9. The Focus of Leadership: an interview with Bertie AhernConclusion

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Book SynopsisRecognition is often considered a means to de-escalate conflicts and promote peaceful social interactions. This volume explores the forms that social recognition and its withholding may take in asymmetric armed conflicts, examining the risks and opportunities that arise when local, state, and transnational actors recognise, misrecognise, or deny recognition of armed non-state actors.By studying key asymmetric conflicts through the prism of recognition, it offers an innovative perspective on the interactions between armed non-state actors and state actors. In what contexts does granting recognition to armed non-state actors foster conflict transformation? What happens when governments withhold recognition or label armed non-state actors in ways they perceive as misrecognition? The authors examine the ambivalence of recognition processes in violent conflicts and their sometimes-unintended consequences. The volume shows that, while non-recognition prevents conflict transformation, the recognition of armed non-state actors may produce counterproductive precedents and new modes of exclusion in intra-state and transnational politics.Trade Review'This is a critically important book on the significance of recognition for non-state armed actors. The volume is based on a rich corpus of case studies problematizing recognition at various stages of conflict escalation. By investigating normative aspects as well as practices, it is a must-read for anyone interested in asymmetrical conflicts in the twenty-second century.'Lisa Strömbom, Associate Professor of Political Science, Lund University'We often think of insurgents or rebel armies as operating in places where there is no room for mutual recognition and other normative practices. But this is wrong. This book shines a spotlight on the complex role of recognition practices and their often positive consequences in some of the most intractable conflicts in the world.'Volker M. Heins, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany'This thought-provoking book explores the possibilities and pitfalls of recognizing armed non-state actors during conflicts, stalemates, and peace processes. Through insightful theoretical chapters and a wealth of case studies from around the world, it helpfully illuminates the complexities of seeking and granting recognition.'Elizabeth King, Associate Professor of International Education, New York University -- .Table of ContentsPart I: Recognition of armed non-state actors: Concepts, theory, history1 Recognising armed non-state actors: Risks and opportunities for conflict transformation - Maéva Clément, Anna Geis, and Hanna Pfeifer2 The historical mapping of armed groups’ recognition - Stephan Hensell and Klaus SchlichtePart II: Recognition during armed conflicts3 Labelling conflict groups in Nigeria: A comparative study of Boko Haram, Niger Delta, IPOB, and Fulani Militia - Michael Nwankpa4 ‘Al-Shabaab is part of us’: Endogeneity and exogeneity in the struggle for recognition in Somalia - Harmonie Toros and Arrliya Sugal5 Shifting recognition orders: The case of the Islamic State - Christoph Günther and Tom KadenPart III: Recognition in conflict stalemates6 The PKK’s zig-zag in its global quest for recognition - Mitja Sienknecht7 Recognition, respect, and identity in the discourse of China’s Uyghur problem - Chien-peng Chung8 Recognition dynamics and Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in regional conflicts - Hanna PfeiferPart IV: Recognition in mediation and peace processes9 Ripe through recognition? The case of the Provisional Irish Republican Army - Carolin Görzig10 Norms and recognition in mediation processes: Promoting inclusivity in the mediation of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in South Sudan - Jamie Pring11 Mutual recognition in the context of contested statehood: Evidence from Tumaco, Colombia - Jan Boesten and Annette IdlerPart V: Practising recognition: Concluding outlook12 From rebels to violent extremists: Evolving conflict trends and implications for the recognition of armed non-state groups - Véronique Dudouet13 Recognition of armed non-state actors: What we have learned and what lies ahead - Harold TrinkunasIndex

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Book SynopsisProscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With rare access to actors during the Colombian negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army (FARC), Sophie Haspeslagh shows how proscription makes negotiations harder and more prolonged. By introducing the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’, Haspeslagh adds to our understanding of the timing and sequencing of peace processes in the context of proscription. Linguistic ceasefire has three main components: first, recognise the conflict; second, discard the ‘terrorist’ label, and third, uncouple the act and the actor. These measures remove the symbolic impact of proscription, even where de-listing is not possible ahead of negotiations. With relevance for more than half of the conflicts around the world in which an armed group is listed as a terrorist organisation, ‘linguistic ceasefire’ helps to explain why certain conflicts remain stuck in the ‘terrorist’ framing, while others emerge from it. International proscription regimes criminalise both the actor and the act of terrorism. Proscribing peace calls for an end to the amalgamation between acts and actors. By focussing on the acts instead, Haspeslagh argues, international policy would be better able to consider the violent actions both of armed groups and those of the state. By separating the act and the actor, change – and thus peace – become possible.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutionsTrade ReviewWinner of the 2022 BISA L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize From the BISA L.H.M. Ling Prize judging panel:'Sophie has produced an impressive piece of research on peace processes and the proscription of "terrorists". Her notion of a 'linguistic ceasefire' makes an original contribution to theorising peace processes by moving beyond Zartman's classic concept of the 'hurting stalemate' as the most significant turning point in conflict dynamics. Haspeslagh shows that the hurting stalemate in and of itself is not enough: it requires the additional move of a change in discursive practices of the parties to the conflict, the conscious 'de-vilification' of one another. The book is based on exceptionally thorough fieldwork in Colombia and Havana, involving carefully nurtured direct access to the FARC well before they opened up to the outside world. Drawing on her practitioner experience in conflict resolution, Haspeslagh makes an outstanding contribution at the level of ideas based upon rock solid empirical research.''This book will enter into the top row of inside stories on the Colombian FARC negotiations. Her sources were deep in the FARC, where no one goes, as well as the state. It will enter the academic literature on International Relations concepts, notably the matter of ripeness, to confirm how the process works in reality and how reality can add refinements to the concept, and how the strategy of proscription affects behaviour and outcomes. An exciting story and a penetrating analysis.'I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University'Not talking to “terrorists” is fine – until you have to. This is a hard lesson learned by many governments who have had to negotiate with armed actors they have spent years demonising. Sophie Hapeslagh’s excellent book gets to the heart of the matter and provides guidance to governments on how to get around this problem. Her original notion of a “linguistic ceasefire” offers a way to move conflicts from the blame game to negotiations. Based on extensive fieldwork, and detailed knowledge of the Colombian peace process, she shows how the conflict temperature can be lowered to allow productive negotiations to take place. The book is highly recommended.'Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University'This important and detailed study is vital reading for the evidence and arguments to explore the impact the labelling of armed actors as ‘terrorists’ has had on the possibilities for peace. International proscription, used by national actors to support their own political and armed goals, holds the possibility of peace back in ways explored in great detail through the Colombian case study. A really important read for social scientists and peace practitioners, based on extensive original material. It calls for a ‘linguistic ceasefire’ as a vital step towards peace negotiations, due to the impact the label has on the armed actors.'Jenny Pearce, Latin America and Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics'The significance of this deeply researched work extends beyond the Colombia negotiations with the FARC. Negotiations in the age of proscription is a key challenge of modern conflict. Millions of people now live in seemingly endless wars where governments are fighting militant groups deemed too extreme for dialogue. The path to peace - already complex and difficult – now has to make its way round legal obstacles that, while well-intentioned, do more to prolong wars than they do to crush terror. Haspeslagh does an excellent and nuanced job of showing the damage that can result. A compelling argument for a more rational approach to proscription in the context of peace talks, and essential reading as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11.'Jonathan Powell, CEO and Founder, Inter Mediate'Sophie Haspeslagh's new book, Proscribing peace, is greatly to be welcomed. The topic of 'talking to terrorists' has been much discussed, but here is a thorough in-depth analysis, not only of what this implies in relation to one careful case study, but also of the deeper general issue of current international proscriptions and their shortcomings. The author's original - and very helpful - contribution is the idea of combining what she terms a "linguistic ceasefire" and "political landing strip" to end vilification and focus on a shift to the political/ethical issues that underlie the conflict. In addition, she offers a lucid and reliable overall account of current thinking about 'ripeness' for pre-negotiations as a conceptual frame for her argument.'Oliver Ramsbotham, University of Bradford'The findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on peace negotiations, securitisation, and established fields of critical terrorism studies and counterterrorism policymaking.'Maria Amjad, Civil Wars 'The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the multifaceted effects of proscription. It will be especially useful for readers looking to rethink today's tendency to designate armed groups as terrorist organizations, without objective criteria for listing and de-listing such groups.'Jacqui Cho, International Affairs (Volume 98, Issue 5) 'Her book sets out a broad conceptual argument for how prescription affects peace negotiations, informed by in-depth qualitative studies of Colombia. With a background in the UN, International Crisis Group, and several development agencies, as well as research experience from several prestigious academic institutions, Haspeslagh is well-equipped for this task. Reflecting her dual professional background, the book is both theoretically sensitive and methodologically well-grounded, while - and this is rarer for academics - speaking to real-world problems.'Magnus Lundgren, International Peacekeeping -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Tying the act to the actor: a short history of international proscription2 International proscription regimes: material and symbolic effects3 Proscription and pre-negotiations: the importance of the ‘linguistic ceasefire’4 The ‘linguistic ceasefire’5 Proscription and power6 Revisiting ripeness7 The effect of proscription in ColombiaConclusion: proscribing peaceReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWomen's Troubles sets out to capture the complexities of feminist movement building in the divided society of Northern Ireland, contributing to ongoing analysis of contemporary global feminisms. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and timely consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its borders and further afield. The work is based on extensive fieldwork in – among other places – Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Iraq.The book considers the construction of crises and how some issues are deemed crises and others not. A major finding from this comparative study is that EU crisis response interventions have been placing increasing emphasis on security and stabilisation and less emphasis on human rights and democratisation. This changes – quite fundamentally – the EU’s stance as an international actor and leads to questions about the nature of the European Union and how it perceives itself and is perceived by others.

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Book SynopsisProscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. By introducing the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’, Haspeslagh adds to our understanding of the timing and sequencing of peace processes in the context of proscription. With relevance for more than half of the conflicts around the world in which an armed group is listed as a terrorist organisation, ‘linguistic ceasefire’ helps to explain why certain conflicts remain stuck in the ‘terrorist’ framing, while others emerge from it. International proscription regimes criminalise both the actor and the act of terrorism. Proscribing peace calls for an end to the amalgamation between acts and actors. By focussing on the acts instead, Haspeslagh argues, international policy would be better able to consider the violent actions both of armed groups and those of the state. By separating the act and the actor, change – and thus peace – become possible.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2022 BISA L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize From the BISA L.H.M. Ling Prize judging panel:'Sophie has produced an impressive piece of research on peace processes and the proscription of "terrorists". Her notion of a 'linguistic ceasefire' makes an original contribution to theorising peace processes by moving beyond Zartman's classic concept of the 'hurting stalemate' as the most significant turning point in conflict dynamics. Haspeslagh shows that the hurting stalemate in and of itself is not enough: it requires the additional move of a change in discursive practices of the parties to the conflict, the conscious 'de-vilification' of one another. The book is based on exceptionally thorough fieldwork in Colombia and Havana, involving carefully nurtured direct access to the FARC well before they opened up to the outside world. Drawing on her practitioner experience in conflict resolution, Haspeslagh makes an outstanding contribution at the level of ideas based upon rock solid empirical research.''This book will enter into the top row of inside stories on the Colombian FARC negotiations. Her sources were deep in the FARC, where no one goes, as well as the state. It will enter the academic literature on International Relations concepts, notably the matter of ripeness, to confirm how the process works in reality and how reality can add refinements to the concept, and how the strategy of proscription affects behaviour and outcomes. An exciting story and a penetrating analysis.'I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University'Not talking to “terrorists” is fine – until you have to. This is a hard lesson learned by many governments who have had to negotiate with armed actors they have spent years demonising. Sophie Hapeslagh’s excellent book gets to the heart of the matter and provides guidance to governments on how to get around this problem. Her original notion of a “linguistic ceasefire” offers a way to move conflicts from the blame game to negotiations. Based on extensive fieldwork, and detailed knowledge of the Colombian peace process, she shows how the conflict temperature can be lowered to allow productive negotiations to take place. The book is highly recommended.'Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University'This important and detailed study is vital reading for the evidence and arguments to explore the impact the labelling of armed actors as ‘terrorists’ has had on the possibilities for peace. International proscription, used by national actors to support their own political and armed goals, holds the possibility of peace back in ways explored in great detail through the Colombian case study. A really important read for social scientists and peace practitioners, based on extensive original material. It calls for a ‘linguistic ceasefire’ as a vital step towards peace negotiations, due to the impact the label has on the armed actors.'Jenny Pearce, Latin America and Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics'The significance of this deeply researched work extends beyond the Colombia negotiations with the FARC. Negotiations in the age of proscription is a key challenge of modern conflict. Millions of people now live in seemingly endless wars where governments are fighting militant groups deemed too extreme for dialogue. The path to peace - already complex and difficult – now has to make its way round legal obstacles that, while well-intentioned, do more to prolong wars than they do to crush terror. Haspeslagh does an excellent and nuanced job of showing the damage that can result. A compelling argument for a more rational approach to proscription in the context of peace talks, and essential reading as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11.'Jonathan Powell, CEO and Founder, Inter Mediate'Sophie Haspeslagh's new book, Proscribing peace, is greatly to be welcomed. The topic of 'talking to terrorists' has been much discussed, but here is a thorough in-depth analysis, not only of what this implies in relation to one careful case study, but also of the deeper general issue of current international proscriptions and their shortcomings. The author's original - and very helpful - contribution is the idea of combining what she terms a "linguistic ceasefire" and "political landing strip" to end vilification and focus on a shift to the political/ethical issues that underlie the conflict. In addition, she offers a lucid and reliable overall account of current thinking about 'ripeness' for pre-negotiations as a conceptual frame for her argument.'Oliver Ramsbotham, University of Bradford'The findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on peace negotiations, securitisation, and established fields of critical terrorism studies and counterterrorism policymaking.'Maria Amjad, Civil Wars 'The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the multifaceted effects of proscription. It will be especially useful for readers looking to rethink today's tendency to designate armed groups as terrorist organizations, without objective criteria for listing and de-listing such groups.'Jacqui Cho, International Affairs (Volume 98, Issue 5) 'Her book sets out a broad conceptual argument for how prescription affects peace negotiations, informed by in-depth qualitative studies of Colombia. With a background in the UN, International Crisis Group, and several development agencies, as well as research experience from several prestigious academic institutions, Haspeslagh is well-equipped for this task. Reflecting her dual professional background, the book is both theoretically sensitive and methodologically well-grounded, while - and this is rarer for academics - speaking to real-world problems.'Magnus Lundgren, International Peacekeeping -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Tying the act to the actor: a short history of international proscription2 International proscription regimes: material and symbolic effects3 Proscription and pre-negotiations: the importance of the ‘linguistic ceasefire’4 The ‘linguistic ceasefire’5 Proscription and power6 Revisiting ripeness7 The effect of proscription in ColombiaConclusion: proscribing peaceReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails. -- .

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails. -- .

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Book SynopsisAlthough religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities. Every faith tradition offers resources for peace, and secular policy makers are more and more acknowledging the influence of faith-based actors, even though there remains a tendency to associate religion more with conflict than peace. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. The contributors are all practitioners whose faith or religious experience motivates their work for peace and justice in such a way that it influences their actions. Their roles are diverse, as some work for faith-based institutions, while others engage in secular contexts. The multiple perspectives featured represent multiple faiths (Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish), diverse scopes of practice, different geographic regions. Each chapter follows a similar template to address specific challenges, such as dealing with extremist views, addressing negative stereotypes about one’s faith, endorsing violence, developing relations with other faith-based or secular groups, confronting gender-based violence, and working with people who hold different beliefs. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. They provide a comprehensive view of the practice of peacebuilding in its many challenging aspects, for both professionals and those studying religion and peacebuilding alike.Trade ReviewWith the growing recognition of the role of religious leaders in building peace, this book is a much needed testimony of the enormous challenges facing religious peacemakers around the world. The personal and professional stories bring hope and inspiration in how to sustain interreligious peace initiatives in places where politicians failed. Policy makers can benefit from the lessons learned on how to best engage with faith based communities and leaders. -- Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor for the Prevention of GenocideThis collection is a treasure house of knowledge and practical experience on the battle-fronts of inter-sectarian peacemaking. The authors provide detailed accounts of their faith-inspired efforts to ease and transform conflicts. Women are leaders. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus provide precious insights into the dynamics of inter-and intra-religious conflict resolution. A gift to the field. -- Joseph V. Montville, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason UniversityMaking Peace with Faith dives deep into the complex roles religious actors play in working for peace. Would that it were true that ALL are taking religious roles more seriously: religion is still often ignored or demonized. This book explores the topic honestly, highlighting both the potential and the religious contradictions that faith-inspired peacebuilders experience. This work, it demonstrates, is not for the faint of heart but our hopes for peace have far better prospects if faith is part of the solution. -- Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World AffairsMaking Peace with Faith is an incredible resource for practitioners and researchers to better understand major challenges faced by inter-faith peacemakers. Not only do the authors vividly reflect upon their own foundational challenges in faith-based peace-making, but they provide insights into complex contexts to overcome these issues. We learn how faith in practice versus faith understood often does not complement critical approaches to faith-based peace-building. This book is a must read for all of those who want to gain insight and wisdom from the world of faith-based peace-building and conflict resolution. -- Qamar-ul Huda, Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept of State Office of Religion & Global AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-Nimer Part One: Engaging One’s Own Faith Chapter 1: Articulating a Personal Theology of Interfaith Cooperation, Eboo Patel Chapter 2: How Being a Jesus-Centered Peacemaker Guides, Inspires and Sustains My Peacemaking Efforts with Muslims, Rick Love Chapter 3: Journey of Redemption: The Role of an Apology in Reconciliation, Sushobha Barve Part Two: Engaging the Other Chapter 4: Listening our way to Peace, Yael Petretti Chapter 5: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in Pakistan: Not for the Faint of Heart, Azhar Hussain Chapter 6: It is not Easy to Follow Christ: The Road to Peace is a Rocky One, Maria Ida ‘Deng’ Giguiento with Myla Leguro Part Three: Engaging Policy Chapter 7: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Secular Approaches to Religion in Multilateral Settings, Azza Karam Chapter 8: Tightrope-walking: Reconciling Faith Convictions with Impartial Peacebuilding, Peter Dixon Chapter 9: Peacebuilding as ‘Countering Violent Extremism:' Exploring Contradictions in Faith and Practice, Dishani Jayaweera with Nirosha De Silva Part Four: Confronting Injustice and Trauma Chapter 10: Transforming Trauma: Wounded Healing in the Way of Jesus, Johonna Turner Chapter 11: Peace from the Soul of the Nurturer – The Gender Question, Despina Namwembe Chapter 12: Reducing Violence through Better Theology, Qutub Jahan Kidwai

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Book SynopsisAlthough religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities. Every faith tradition offers resources for peace, and secular policy makers are more and more acknowledging the influence of faith-based actors, even though there remains a tendency to associate religion more with conflict than peace. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. The contributors are all practitioners whose faith or religious experience motivates their work for peace and justice in such a way that it influences their actions. Their roles are diverse, as some work for faith-based institutions, while others engage in secular contexts. The multiple perspectives featured represent multiple faiths (Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish), diverse scopes of practice, different geographic regions. Each chapter follows a similar template to address specific challenges, such as dealing with extremist views, addressing negative stereotypes about one’s faith, endorsing violence, developing relations with other faith-based or secular groups, confronting gender-based violence, and working with people who hold different beliefs. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. They provide a comprehensive view of the practice of peacebuilding in its many challenging aspects, for both professionals and those studying religion and peacebuilding alike.Trade ReviewWith the growing recognition of the role of religious leaders in building peace, this book is a much needed testimony of the enormous challenges facing religious peacemakers around the world. The personal and professional stories bring hope and inspiration in how to sustain interreligious peace initiatives in places where politicians failed. Policy makers can benefit from the lessons learned on how to best engage with faith based communities and leaders. -- Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor for the Prevention of GenocideThis collection is a treasure house of knowledge and practical experience on the battle-fronts of inter-sectarian peacemaking. The authors provide detailed accounts of their faith-inspired efforts to ease and transform conflicts. Women are leaders. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus provide precious insights into the dynamics of inter-and intra-religious conflict resolution. A gift to the field. -- Joseph V. Montville, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason UniversityMaking Peace with Faith dives deep into the complex roles religious actors play in working for peace. Would that it were true that ALL are taking religious roles more seriously: religion is still often ignored or demonized. This book explores the topic honestly, highlighting both the potential and the religious contradictions that faith-inspired peacebuilders experience. This work, it demonstrates, is not for the faint of heart but our hopes for peace have far better prospects if faith is part of the solution. -- Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World AffairsMaking Peace with Faith is an incredible resource for practitioners and researchers to better understand major challenges faced by inter-faith peacemakers. Not only do the authors vividly reflect upon their own foundational challenges in faith-based peace-making, but they provide insights into complex contexts to overcome these issues. We learn how faith in practice versus faith understood often does not complement critical approaches to faith-based peace-building. This book is a must read for all of those who want to gain insight and wisdom from the world of faith-based peace-building and conflict resolution. -- Qamar-ul Huda, Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept of State Office of Religion & Global AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-Nimer Part One: Engaging One’s Own Faith Chapter 1: Articulating a Personal Theology of Interfaith Cooperation, Eboo Patel Chapter 2: How Being a Jesus-Centered Peacemaker Guides, Inspires and Sustains My Peacemaking Efforts with Muslims, Rick Love Chapter 3: Journey of Redemption: The Role of an Apology in Reconciliation, Sushobha Barve Part Two: Engaging the Other Chapter 4: Listening our way to Peace, Yael Petretti Chapter 5: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in Pakistan: Not for the Faint of Heart, Azhar Hussain Chapter 6: It is not Easy to Follow Christ: The Road to Peace is a Rocky One, Maria Ida ‘Deng’ Giguiento with Myla Leguro Part Three: Engaging Policy Chapter 7: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Secular Approaches to Religion in Multilateral Settings, Azza Karam Chapter 8: Tightrope-walking: Reconciling Faith Convictions with Impartial Peacebuilding, Peter Dixon Chapter 9: Peacebuilding as ‘Countering Violent Extremism:' Exploring Contradictions in Faith and Practice, Dishani Jayaweera with Nirosha De Silva Part Four: Confronting Injustice and Trauma Chapter 10: Transforming Trauma: Wounded Healing in the Way of Jesus, Johonna Turner Chapter 11: Peace from the Soul of the Nurturer – The Gender Question, Despina Namwembe Chapter 12: Reducing Violence through Better Theology, Qutub Jahan Kidwai

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, mutually productive relations. Writing with authority and clarity, Mel Gurtov defines the strategy of deep engagement, examines how it progressed under President Obama with Cuba and Iran, and probes its potential for US-Russian and US-North Korean relations and other critical hotspots. At the core of the book are case studies that highlight the strategy and practice of engagement in both successful and failed efforts. Showing that domestic political obstacles turn out to be more formidable than strategic interests when national leaders seek to engage adversaries, Gurtov draws lessons for diplomacy in ways to engage, such as practicing mutual respect, paying attention to symbols, and using incentives rather than sanctions. At a time when use of force remains the main way governments pursue their interests, Engaging Adversaries is a timely appeal to diplomacy and a reminder that a multitude of ways exist for adversaries to find common ground.Trade ReviewA refreshingly original, persuasive, mind-expanding, and timely study, this book is a must-read for all students of US foreign policy and international relations as well as for policy makers and an attentive public concerned about the shaping of a nonhegemonic global order. -- Samuel S. Kim, Columbia UniversityWhile engagement has been a topic of study within conflict resolution and international relations, Mel Gurtov offers a fresh and original approach. His critique of realism and power politics for focusing on worst-case outcomes is both commonsensical and vitally important. Engagement is what powerful countries should use as a primary mode for resolving conflicts. Thoughtful, well written, and timely, this is an outstanding piece of work. -- Stuart J. Thorson, emeritus, Maxwell School of Syracuse UniversityIn the human interest—exactly what we need in the era of Trump and his escalating confrontation with the world. Mel Gurtov’s peacemaking shows a clear way forward through the current fog of bigotry, jingoism, and violence. -- Peter Van Ness, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Global Citizen and Engagement Chapter 2: Engaging Adversaries Chapter 3: Successful Engagement: US Relations with Iran and Cuba Chapter 4: Halfway There: US-China Engagement Chapter 5: Disengagement: Failures in US-Russia and US-North Korea Relations Chapter 6: Trapped by History: China-Japan, Israel-Palestine Chapter 7: Engagement: Lessons for Policy Makers and Peacemakers Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, mutually productive relations. Writing with authority and clarity, Mel Gurtov defines the strategy of deep engagement, examines how it progressed under President Obama with Cuba and Iran, and probes its potential for US-Russian and US-North Korean relations and other critical hotspots. At the core of the book are case studies that highlight the strategy and practice of engagement in both successful and failed efforts. Showing that domestic political obstacles turn out to be more formidable than strategic interests when national leaders seek to engage adversaries, Gurtov draws lessons for diplomacy in ways to engage, such as practicing mutual respect, paying attention to symbols, and using incentives rather than sanctions. At a time when use of force remains the main way governments pursue their interests, Engaging Adversaries is a timely appeal to diplomacy and a reminder that a multitude of ways exist for adversaries to find common ground.Trade ReviewA refreshingly original, persuasive, mind-expanding, and timely study, this book is a must-read for all students of US foreign policy and international relations as well as for policy makers and an attentive public concerned about the shaping of a nonhegemonic global order. -- Samuel S. Kim, Columbia UniversityWhile engagement has been a topic of study within conflict resolution and international relations, Mel Gurtov offers a fresh and original approach. His critique of realism and power politics for focusing on worst-case outcomes is both commonsensical and vitally important. Engagement is what powerful countries should use as a primary mode for resolving conflicts. Thoughtful, well written, and timely, this is an outstanding piece of work. -- Stuart J. Thorson, emeritus, Maxwell School of Syracuse UniversityIn the human interest—exactly what we need in the era of Trump and his escalating confrontation with the world. Mel Gurtov’s peacemaking shows a clear way forward through the current fog of bigotry, jingoism, and violence. -- Peter Van Ness, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Global Citizen and Engagement Chapter 2: Engaging Adversaries Chapter 3: Successful Engagement: US Relations with Iran and Cuba Chapter 4: Halfway There: US-China Engagement Chapter 5: Disengagement: Failures in US-Russia and US-North Korea Relations Chapter 6: Trapped by History: China-Japan, Israel-Palestine Chapter 7: Engagement: Lessons for Policy Makers and Peacemakers Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this edited volume present a case for why locally led peacebuilding matters and how it can have measurable and meaningful impact, even beyond preventing political violence. This book contributes a set of local voices to a global problem – how to prevent armed conflict and lead to lasting peace. The authors argue that locally led peacebuilding by community based organizations (both formal and informal) plays a crucial role in preventing violence and cultivating peace, one that is complementary to peacebuilding work done by local, state, and national governments within countries and between nation-states. Through the case studies presented, Locally Led Peacebuilding presents evidence for how and why locally led peacebuilding can prevent violence, and invites practitioners and scholars to critically examine the implications of locally led initiatives. From these examples, we all have an opportunity to learn about creating, implementing, researching, and funding locally led peacebuilding.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Locally Led Peacebuilding Matters by Stacey L. Connaughton & Jessica Berns Section 1: What is Local? Chapter 1: Peace Drivers: Local Agency, Relational Responsibility, and the Future of Peacebuilding by Bridget Moix Chapter 2: Crossing Lines to Build Peace: Deescalating Gang Conflict in Cite Soleil, Haiti by Louino Robillard and Sabina Carlson Robillard Section 2: Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World Chapter 3: Now we sleep without our shoes…The Story of the Laikipia Peace Caravan by Gail M. Ervin Chapter 4: Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda by Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton and William Kiptoo Chapter 5: Magnanimity in Victory: Somaliland’s peace building and DDR through indigenous traditional system by Abdishakur Hassan-kayd Chapter 6: Liberia at a Crossroads: How Local Peace Committees are Working to Consolidate and Promote Peace in Liberia by Nat B. Walker Chapter 7: Nigeria: Peace Drives Security by Michael Sodipo Chapter 8: Peacebuilding in Guatemala: The Local Peace Network Methodology by José David Pineda Ruano Chapter 9: University to University Partnership: Building a Network of Effective Peacebuilders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Thomas Hill, Alexander Munoz, and Katerina Siira Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning Participatory Action Research as Approach for Locally Led Peacebuilding in Kampala, Uganda by Felix Bivens, Illana Lancaster, Nanfuka Zulaika & Ndugwa Hassan Chapter 11: The Women Peace and Security Collective: An organic process of empowerment by Kristian Herbolzheimer & Rosa Emilia Salamanca Chapter 12: Encountering Faiths and Beliefs: Locally led peacebuilding in the UK by Phil Champain Chapter 13: The Cure Violence Model for Violence Prevention by Charles L. Ransford, Karen Volker & Gary Slutkin Section 3: Locally Led Peacebuilding: Understanding What Works Chapter 14: Youth and Elections in Peacebuilding: Experience from Ghana and Liberia by Robert Groelsema, Maureen Herman, Michelle Marland, and Muminu Mutaru Chapter 15: Participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluating locally led peacebuilding in Ghana by Jasmine R. Linabary Chapter 16: Community peacebuilding on a national scale: the work of the CPBR in Sri Lanka by Nilanjana Premaratria & Ruairi Nolan Chapter 17: Community Healing, from the inside-out – Systems lessons from Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone by Libby Hoffman Chapter 18: Madaris and Peace Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Peace and Education Foundation by Zahid Shahab Ahmed & Rashad Bukhari Section 4: Reflections and Paths Forward Chapter 19: Locally-driven ‘Track 1½ and Track 2’ Diplomacy by Peter Dixon Conclusion: Reflections and Paths Forward for Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World by Stacey Connaughton & Jessica Berns About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this edited volume present a case for why locally led peacebuilding matters and how it can have measurable and meaningful impact, even beyond preventing political violence. This book contributes a set of local voices to a global problem – how to prevent armed conflict and lead to lasting peace. The authors argue that locally led peacebuilding by community based organizations (both formal and informal) plays a crucial role in preventing violence and cultivating peace, one that is complementary to peacebuilding work done by local, state, and national governments within countries and between nation-states. Through the case studies presented, Locally Led Peacebuilding presents evidence for how and why locally led peacebuilding can prevent violence, and invites practitioners and scholars to critically examine the implications of locally led initiatives. From these examples, we all have an opportunity to learn about creating, implementing, researching, and funding locally led peacebuilding.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Locally Led Peacebuilding Matters by Stacey L. Connaughton & Jessica Berns Section 1: What is Local? Chapter 1: Peace Drivers: Local Agency, Relational Responsibility, and the Future of Peacebuilding by Bridget Moix Chapter 2: Crossing Lines to Build Peace: Deescalating Gang Conflict in Cite Soleil, Haiti by Louino Robillard and Sabina Carlson Robillard Section 2: Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World Chapter 3: Now we sleep without our shoes…The Story of the Laikipia Peace Caravan by Gail M. Ervin Chapter 4: Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda by Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton and William Kiptoo Chapter 5: Magnanimity in Victory: Somaliland’s peace building and DDR through indigenous traditional system by Abdishakur Hassan-kayd Chapter 6: Liberia at a Crossroads: How Local Peace Committees are Working to Consolidate and Promote Peace in Liberia by Nat B. Walker Chapter 7: Nigeria: Peace Drives Security by Michael Sodipo Chapter 8: Peacebuilding in Guatemala: The Local Peace Network Methodology by José David Pineda Ruano Chapter 9: University to University Partnership: Building a Network of Effective Peacebuilders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Thomas Hill, Alexander Munoz, and Katerina Siira Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning Participatory Action Research as Approach for Locally Led Peacebuilding in Kampala, Uganda by Felix Bivens, Illana Lancaster, Nanfuka Zulaika & Ndugwa Hassan Chapter 11: The Women Peace and Security Collective: An organic process of empowerment by Kristian Herbolzheimer & Rosa Emilia Salamanca Chapter 12: Encountering Faiths and Beliefs: Locally led peacebuilding in the UK by Phil Champain Chapter 13: The Cure Violence Model for Violence Prevention by Charles L. Ransford, Karen Volker & Gary Slutkin Section 3: Locally Led Peacebuilding: Understanding What Works Chapter 14: Youth and Elections in Peacebuilding: Experience from Ghana and Liberia by Robert Groelsema, Maureen Herman, Michelle Marland, and Muminu Mutaru Chapter 15: Participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluating locally led peacebuilding in Ghana by Jasmine R. Linabary Chapter 16: Community peacebuilding on a national scale: the work of the CPBR in Sri Lanka by Nilanjana Premaratria & Ruairi Nolan Chapter 17: Community Healing, from the inside-out – Systems lessons from Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone by Libby Hoffman Chapter 18: Madaris and Peace Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Peace and Education Foundation by Zahid Shahab Ahmed & Rashad Bukhari Section 4: Reflections and Paths Forward Chapter 19: Locally-driven ‘Track 1½ and Track 2’ Diplomacy by Peter Dixon Conclusion: Reflections and Paths Forward for Locally Led Peacebuilding around the World by Stacey Connaughton & Jessica Berns About the Authors

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Book SynopsisFrom Conflict Resolution to Peacebuilding will introduce the varied ways people address and resolve conflicts at all levels from the interpersonal to the international. It will breakdown how conflict affects our lives while showing readers how they can deal with conflict constructively as citizens and, in some cases, in their careers. Building up from foundational principles, this book will apply them to political conflicts throughout the world. Features Include: ·“Micro” and “macro” approaches to this multi-disciplinary field. ·Written in an engaging style by an author who spans academic and “on-the-ground” experience in peacebuilding. ·Provides a rich case base to illustrate core academic concepts. ·Enhanced e-book with video interviews embedded.Table of ContentsDedication Preface 1 - For the Student Preface 2 - For the Instructor Acknowledgments Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 - Conflict is a Fact of Life. Peacebuilding is Not. Chapter 2 - Forks in the Road Chapter 3 - Seeing Conflict With New Eyes Part 2 Peacebuilding 1.0 Chapter 4 -Beyond Gloom and Doom 101 Chapter 5- Far From the Grownups Table Part 3 Peacebuilding 2.0 Chapter 6 - Identity and Intractable Conflict Chapter 7 - A Glimpse at the Grownups Table Part 4 Peacebuilding 3.0 Chapter 8 -Toward Positive Peace Chapter 9 - Toward the Grownups Table Part 5 Peacebuilding 4.0? Chapter 10- Next Gen Peacebuilding Chapter 11 - And That Leaves You

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Book SynopsisOnly sixteen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. Hailing from all over the world, some of these women have held graduate degrees, while others barely had access to education. Some began their work young, some late in life. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women’s varied lives in fascinating detail. The third edition includes the story of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, the youngest laureate, who won as a teenager in 2014. Her campaign for girls’ education continued in spite of a vicious attack by the Taliban. Engaged and inspirational, all these women clearly demonstrate that there is something each of us can do to advance a just, positive peace. Whether they began by insisting on garbage collection or simply by planting a tree, each understood that peace must be global in order to be sustained. All learned that peace is not always popular, but believed they must persevere. They shared a common vision and commitment undiminished by obstacles and opposition. As Judith Stiehm convincingly shows, all are truly “champions for peace.”Table of ContentsPreface In the Tradition of Lysistrata—Women Champions for Peace Chapter 1 Bertha von Suttner: Noble Woman and Nobel Friend Chapter 2 Jane Addams: “The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived” Chapter 3 Emily Greene Balch: The Dismissed Professor Chapter 4 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan: Sisterhood Created by Tragedy Chapter 5 Mother Teresa: From Macedonia to India and Sainthood Chapter 6 Alva Myrdal: World Diplomat Chapter 7 Aung San Suu Kyi: Resisting by Staying Home Chapter 8 Rigoberta Menchú Tum: A Story That Broke the World’s Heart Chapter 9 Jody Williams: Internet Activist Chapter 10 Shirin Ebadi: Muslim Judge Chapter 11 Wangari Muta Maathai: Kenya’s “Green” Doctor Chapter 12 Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: 2011, the Year of the Women Chapter 13 Malala Yousafzai: A Near Martyr Conclusion Champions All Epilogue Questions for U.S. and Non-U.S. Readers Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisOnly sixteen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. Hailing from all over the world, some of these women have held graduate degrees, while others barely had access to education. Some began their work young, some late in life. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women’s varied lives in fascinating detail. The third edition includes the story of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, the youngest laureate, who won as a teenager in 2014. Her campaign for girls’ education continued in spite of a vicious attack by the Taliban. Engaged and inspirational, all these women clearly demonstrate that there is something each of us can do to advance a just, positive peace. Whether they began by insisting on garbage collection or simply by planting a tree, each understood that peace must be global in order to be sustained. All learned that peace is not always popular, but believed they must persevere. They shared a common vision and commitment undiminished by obstacles and opposition. As Judith Stiehm convincingly shows, all are truly “champions for peace.”Table of ContentsPreface In the Tradition of Lysistrata—Women Champions for Peace Chapter 1 Bertha von Suttner: Noble Woman and Nobel Friend Chapter 2 Jane Addams: “The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived” Chapter 3 Emily Greene Balch: The Dismissed Professor Chapter 4 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan: Sisterhood Created by Tragedy Chapter 5 Mother Teresa: From Macedonia to India and Sainthood Chapter 6 Alva Myrdal: World Diplomat Chapter 7 Aung San Suu Kyi: Resisting by Staying Home Chapter 8 Rigoberta Menchú Tum: A Story That Broke the World’s Heart Chapter 9 Jody Williams: Internet Activist Chapter 10 Shirin Ebadi: Muslim Judge Chapter 11 Wangari Muta Maathai: Kenya’s “Green” Doctor Chapter 12 Tawakkol Karman, Leymah Gbowee, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: 2011, the Year of the Women Chapter 13 Malala Yousafzai: A Near Martyr Conclusion Champions All Epilogue Questions for U.S. and Non-U.S. Readers Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, practical text examines both the overarching foundations and functional applications of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), using managerial, sociological, historical, political, and other multidisciplinary frameworks.

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Book SynopsisMore Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.

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Book SynopsisMore Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.

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Book SynopsisConflicts require a process to guide the belligerents from the battle field to mutual cooperation. But how does one provide the conflict stabilization for this peace process to operate? Peacekeeping emerged as one of these tools and has evolved to become an important element to support the peace process between belligerents in major inter-state and intra-state conflict. This book takes a broad definition of multinational peacekeeping in order to provide a basis for comparison and permit researchers to review operations labeled as “peacekeeping” by international organizations. The goal of this work is to assist researchers, scholars and others who are interested in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations to sort through the myriad of peacekeeping or peace operations since 1920 and consider some of the trends and issues behind these missionsThis fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries peacekeeping operations, people, organizations, countries, and events associated with peacekeeping. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about peacekeeping.Table of ContentsEditor's Foreword (Jon Woronoff)PrefaceAcknowledgementsAcronyms and AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYBIBLIOGRAPHYAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisOver the last few years, public discourse and a number of events reveal the escalation of a pernicious “us-versus-them” ideology in the U.S., in which calls to restore America’s greatness are increasingly accompanied by language dehumanizing minority groups, including racial, religious and ethnic groups as well as immigrant communities. The book is motivated by our continued recognition of systems of structural violence and injustice, which are linked to longstanding systems of racism, social marginalization, xenophobia, poverty, and inequality in all forms. These deeply rooted and structural conflicts in the U.S. have no easy solutions, and the destructive nature of today’s conflicts in America threaten to impede efforts to build peace, promote justice, and inspire constructive social change. While conditions vary across the country and for different groups, and protests have generally remained peaceful thus far, the possibility of inter-group violence is not the only concern for the peacebuilding community; the violation of the civil and human rights of vulnerable groups, both minority communities as well as the very poor in general, also present serious threats both to American democracy and core conceptions of justice. The primary objective of this volume is to illustrate an architecture for peace in the United States. The volume represents the first step in such a creation, with the potential for developing policy recommendations that foster pro-social values. We bring together a diverse group of scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, community peacebuilders, civil society leaders and faith leaders who are committed to pro-social change in America. Collectively, we will examine how best to deescalate the destructive public rhetoric, undermine the “us versus them” polarity, and support pro-social voices for positive change. Together, this volume will share experiences and perspectives on America’s current situation, develop a vision for how we can collectively respond in our communities, campuses, and congregations, and catalyze future partnerships, collaboration, and action.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Builds Peace? Emily SamplePart 1: Framing our Conversation of Peacebuilding in the United StatesChapter 1: Peacebuilding Begins at Home: A Call to U.S. Peacebuilders, Bridget MoixChapter 2: Social Justice as Peacebuilding in Black Churches: Where Do We Go From Here? Beverly Janet GoinsPart 2: Doing Good (?): Dialogue, Difference, and Ethical PracticeChapter 3: What Can They Be Thinking? Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, Melinda BurrellChapter 4: Living Room Conversations: Identity Formation and Democracy, Jessica Shryack, Linda Taylor, Beth Raps, and Joan BladesChapter 5: Peacebuilding Programs in the United States: First Do No Harm, Elizabeth HumePart 3: Social Spaces and Social Practices of PeacebuildingChapter 6: Museum Education and Social Justice in Latinx Communities, Michelle TovarChapter 7: Service for Peace: Working with Students and Youth to Plant the Future, Eddah MutuaChapter 8: Environmental In/Justice: Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene, Emily SamplePart 4: Confronting Direct and Structural Racial Violence: The Paths ForwardChapter 9: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels and White Protectionism, Danielle ChristmasChapter 10: Legacy of Slavery: A New Approach to Reparations, Sarah FedermanChapter 11: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in Maryland: From Narrative Change to Racial Healing, Charles Chavis, Jr.Chapter 12: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony GaskewPart 5: In the Spirit of Self Reflection: Discussions on Gender and NationChapter 13: Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo, Shelly Clay-Robison, Melinda Burrell, Elizabeth Hume, Deena R. Hurwitz, Emily Sample and Kate E. TemoneyChapter 14: “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Peacebuilding…”: The Paradox of Order in the Shadow of Chaos, Patricia A. Maulden

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Book SynopsisOver the last few years, public discourse and a number of events reveal the escalation of a pernicious “us-versus-them” ideology in the U.S., in which calls to restore America’s greatness are increasingly accompanied by language dehumanizing minority groups, including racial, religious and ethnic groups as well as immigrant communities. The book is motivated by our continued recognition of systems of structural violence and injustice, which are linked to longstanding systems of racism, social marginalization, xenophobia, poverty, and inequality in all forms. These deeply rooted and structural conflicts in the U.S. have no easy solutions, and the destructive nature of today’s conflicts in America threaten to impede efforts to build peace, promote justice, and inspire constructive social change. While conditions vary across the country and for different groups, and protests have generally remained peaceful thus far, the possibility of inter-group violence is not the only concern for the peacebuilding community; the violation of the civil and human rights of vulnerable groups, both minority communities as well as the very poor in general, also present serious threats both to American democracy and core conceptions of justice. The primary objective of this volume is to illustrate an architecture for peace in the United States. The volume represents the first step in such a creation, with the potential for developing policy recommendations that foster pro-social values. We bring together a diverse group of scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, community peacebuilders, civil society leaders and faith leaders who are committed to pro-social change in America. Collectively, we will examine how best to deescalate the destructive public rhetoric, undermine the “us versus them” polarity, and support pro-social voices for positive change. Together, this volume will share experiences and perspectives on America’s current situation, develop a vision for how we can collectively respond in our communities, campuses, and congregations, and catalyze future partnerships, collaboration, and action.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Builds Peace? Emily SamplePart 1: Framing our Conversation of Peacebuilding in the United StatesChapter 1: Peacebuilding Begins at Home: A Call to U.S. Peacebuilders, Bridget MoixChapter 2: Social Justice as Peacebuilding in Black Churches: Where Do We Go From Here? Beverly Janet GoinsPart 2: Doing Good (?): Dialogue, Difference, and Ethical PracticeChapter 3: What Can They Be Thinking? Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, Melinda BurrellChapter 4: Living Room Conversations: Identity Formation and Democracy, Jessica Shryack, Linda Taylor, Beth Raps, and Joan BladesChapter 5: Peacebuilding Programs in the United States: First Do No Harm, Elizabeth HumePart 3: Social Spaces and Social Practices of PeacebuildingChapter 6: Museum Education and Social Justice in Latinx Communities, Michelle TovarChapter 7: Service for Peace: Working with Students and Youth to Plant the Future, Eddah MutuaChapter 8: Environmental In/Justice: Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene, Emily SamplePart 4: Confronting Direct and Structural Racial Violence: The Paths ForwardChapter 9: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels and White Protectionism, Danielle ChristmasChapter 10: Legacy of Slavery: A New Approach to Reparations, Sarah FedermanChapter 11: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in Maryland: From Narrative Change to Racial Healing, Charles Chavis, Jr.Chapter 12: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony GaskewPart 5: In the Spirit of Self Reflection: Discussions on Gender and NationChapter 13: Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo, Shelly Clay-Robison, Melinda Burrell, Elizabeth Hume, Deena R. Hurwitz, Emily Sample and Kate E. TemoneyChapter 14: “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Peacebuilding…”: The Paradox of Order in the Shadow of Chaos, Patricia A. Maulden

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Book SynopsisThis deeply researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of the domestic politics and international consequences of Trump’s foreign policy. Mel Gurtov provides detailed case studies of policy toward key countries and regions, including China, Russia, North Korea, Europe, and the Middle East. He makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities and values, for rejecting a foreign policy of neglect and ineptness when it comes to the major issues of our times: climate change, China’s rise, multiple US wars, human rights, authoritarian leadership, and nuclear weapons. Gurtov argues that Trump is a nationalist and illiberal populist whose policy views have been molded chiefly by his business practices, leading to an obsession with “winning,” elevation of ego and loyalty over expertise, and preference for threats over diplomacy. Trump holds to a few simple ideas about the US role in the world: too expensive, too subject to other countries and institutions, and too influenced by “globalist” concerns such as democracy, climate crisis, human rights, and the rule of law. Trump will leave a deeply negative mark on the reputation and credibility of the United States, and on its policy-making process. But Gurtov concludes that a liberal successor should be able to reverse the worst features of the Trump era and restore foreign policy to its true purpose: exemplifying America’s commitment to humane and democratic governance and cooperative economic relations with allies and economic partners.

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Book SynopsisThis deeply researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of the domestic politics and international consequences of Trump’s foreign policy. Mel Gurtov provides detailed case studies of policy toward key countries and regions, including China, Russia, North Korea, Europe, and the Middle East. He makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities and values, for rejecting a foreign policy of neglect and ineptness when it comes to the major issues of our times: climate change, China’s rise, multiple US wars, human rights, authoritarian leadership, and nuclear weapons. Gurtov argues that Trump is a nationalist and illiberal populist whose policy views have been molded chiefly by his business practices, leading to an obsession with “winning,” elevation of ego and loyalty over expertise, and preference for threats over diplomacy. Trump holds to a few simple ideas about the US role in the world: too expensive, too subject to other countries and institutions, and too influenced by “globalist” concerns such as democracy, climate crisis, human rights, and the rule of law. Trump will leave a deeply negative mark on the reputation and credibility of the United States, and on its policy-making process. But Gurtov concludes that a liberal successor should be able to reverse the worst features of the Trump era and restore foreign policy to its true purpose: exemplifying America’s commitment to humane and democratic governance and cooperative economic relations with allies and economic partners.

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Book SynopsisThis book enhances our understanding of how societies torn by violence can be rebuilt. Instabilities in those societies continue to be fuelled by political marginalization, economic-social inequality, violent crimes, and injustice. Historically, international response has been largely inadequate due to a failure of adaptation to local circumstances. This collection focuses on how peacebuilding programmes can be more effectively carried out to create a more functional society. In a nutshell, this volume sheds light on local practice and experiences that can be utilized to meet unique circumstances of countries that have suffered from a destructive conflict.The collection will investigate the transition to peace by highlighting the missing links between peacebuilding norms and practice, political economy, emotions, justice, and reconciliation.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Connecting the Missing Links, Ho-Won JeongPart I: Theories, Norms and Practice2. Human Insecurities and Postwar Reconstruction: A Constructivist Perspective, Earl Conteh-Morgan3. Emotions and Post-Liberal Peacebuilding, Katrin Travouillon 4. Transgressive or Compliant? Reconsidering the Norms and Labels of Peacebuilding, Andrea Kathryn TalentinoPart II: Political and Economic Transition5. Power Sharing and Consociational Institutions, Howon Jeong and Imad Salamey 6. Political Economy of Development, Howon Jeong7. Multi-Sector Capacity Building, Jon D. UnruhPart III: Reconciliation and Justice 8. Developing Thin Sympathy and Operationalising Acknowledgement, Joanna R. Quinn9. The International Criminal Court and its Challenges, Linus N. Malu10. Moving Beyond the Barrier between Peace and Justice, Jeffrey D. Pugh

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Book SynopsisThis novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses, political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional grand/mid-range theorization.Trade ReviewA theoretical rich account of humanitarian disarmament regimes that challenges the naive optimism of their proponents, coupled with a sophisticated account of the complex power dynamics at work in seemingly progressive arms control policies and practices. -- Keith Krause, Director of Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of Geneva, SwitzerlandHynek and Solovyeva have breathed new life into the subject of regimes by bringing to the fore the different kinds of power. The applications to a range of security and humanitarian regimes are fascinating, penetrating, and challenges prevailing views. -- Robert Jervis, Author of How Statesmen ThinkTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Theorizing International Security Regimes: From Three Waves of ‘Isms’ to the Power-Analytical ApproachChapter 2. The 19th Century Security Regime ComplexChapter 3. From Landmines to Cluster Munitions: Resurfacing and Spill-Over of Transhistorical Humanitarian DisarmamentChapter 4. Small Arms and Light Weapons: From Humanitarian Disarmament to Arms Trade TreatyChapter 5. Humanitarianism Meets Nuclear Arms ControlChapter 6. On the Verge of Change? ‘Killer Robots’ and Security RegulationConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organisational system-wide coherence and the increasingly questioned agential condition of peacebuilding actors. Inattentive to the relational vulnerability of involved stakeholders, it is suggested that the UN seeks to secure a totalising modern distory, defined in the book as a story that undoes other stories. Whilst affirming the entangled ontogenesis of actors and processes in the conflict-affected configuration, Entangled Peace also delves into a cautionary argument about what the author refers to as entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, normative, deterministic and exclusionary projection of a relational world. Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead, Entangled Peace is an invitation to speculate over the peacebuilding milieu, and by extension the broader theatre of the real, as radical openness, in which events emanate from the collision of an infinite multiplicity of possible worlds.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Failing to Know and Engage ‘the Locals’ in PeacebuildingChapter 2. System-Wide Coherence and the Problems of Linearity in PeacebuildingChapter 3. Rethinking Agency in Complexity-Sensitive PeacebuildingChapter 4. Entangled Peace and its LimitsChapter 5. Peacebuilding Distories and the Ethics of Entangled PeaceConclusion Interviews

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Book SynopsisThis book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organisational system-wide coherence and the increasingly questioned agential condition of peacebuilding actors. Inattentive to the relational vulnerability of involved stakeholders, it is suggested that the UN seeks to secure a totalising modern distory, defined in the book as a story that undoes other stories. Whilst affirming the entangled ontogenesis of actors and processes in the conflict-affected configuration, Entangled Peace also delves into a cautionary argument about what the author refers to as entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, normative, deterministic and exclusionary projection of a relational world. Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead, Entangled Peace is an invitation to speculate over the peacebuilding milieu, and by extension the broader theatre of the real, as radical openness, in which events emanate from the collision of an infinite multiplicity of possible worlds.Trade ReviewEntangled Peace puts forth a compelling approach to the way that the UN’s agency unfolds in the spaces of its interventions and how the logic of her involvement contributes to erasing and flattening the conflict realities and other agencies of these spaces. -- Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Principal Research Associate at CRASSH, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Failing to Know and Engage ‘the Locals’ in PeacebuildingChapter 2. System-Wide Coherence and the Problems of Linearity in PeacebuildingChapter 3. Rethinking Agency in Complexity-Sensitive PeacebuildingChapter 4. Entangled Peace and its LimitsChapter 5. Peacebuilding Distories and the Ethics of Entangled PeaceConclusion Interviews

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Humanitarian RelationsChapter 2. Voluntary Service: Its Place in the Social FabricChapter 3. Evolving Expressions of Humanitarian SpaceChapter 4. The Social Identity of the NicheChapter 5. Risks and OpportunitiesChapter 6. The Spirit of Humanity: A Universal AppealChapter 7. Case StudiesChapter 8. Re-Harbouring the HumanitariansChapter 9. Changing the Social OrderBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.Trade ReviewThis dense and intriguing book brings together philosophy, IR and reflections on humanitarian practice in a novel manner. It is concerned with the exploration of identity markers and patterns of engagement – with a particular focus on volunteering as a cornerstone of humanitarian identities. It is grounded in wide ranging readings and does not shy away from tackling the most complex concepts. It builds on theories of identity and trust to establish notions of social identity relevant to humanitarian work, communal trust. While largely theoretical in tone and in its sources, it does not shy away from looking into the historical defining of humanitarian concepts in the 1960s and from exploring these concepts in action through early 2000s field experiences. This makes this book an original and brave voice in a field which needs more bridges between theory and praxis. I for one found it a stimulating and engaging read worth coming back to. -- Bertrand Taithe, Professor of Cultural History at the University of ManchesterThis is an important book that demands to be taken off the shelf and read. In an age of mounting skepticism towards humanitarian action, Alasdair Gordon-Gibson provides a searing new vision which translates humanitarianism’s founding values of voluntary service and shows how they can be put to work to address some of the world’s most difficult crises. Combining a lifetime’s work for the Red Cross and Red Crescent with a sophisticated understanding of social identity theory, it sheds genuinely new light on old problems and shows how a new and more sustainable humanitarianism can be fostered by embedding it within the societies it lives within rather than treating it as a profession apart. It is nothing short of a call for a revolution in humanitarian affairs that will drive debate, thought, and practice for years to come. -- Professor Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Professor of Peace and Conflict at the University of Queensland in AustraliaIt is rare that I read a text on conflict and development and find both an excellent treatment of practical issues and also fascinating theoretical suggestions for how to address the failings of humanitarian action. Gordon-Gibson’s long career in the logistics and delivery of aid and his use of extensive archival sources helps us understand the narrative of aid, which he argues has lost its way. This makes for a very unusual approach. The sophistication of the blend of these elements is practically unique in my experience. It also makes the important suggestion that the aid sector needs to refind its roots and its legitimacy not only with the donors but also with the recipients. Aid has become far too divorced from the human dimension and been superseded by political imperatives. It needs a renewed sense of meaning. This a stupendous achievement for a first major book. -- Andrew J. Williams, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Author of (with Roger Mac Ginty) 'Conflict and Development' and "Liberalism and War"Humanitarians on the Frontier by Alasdair Gordon-Gibson examines the possibility of recasting or reimagining the identity of humanitarian actors to achieve greater legitimacy and access for such actors to communities in need of assistance. It argues for a stable yet contingent identity as an auxiliary to state responsibilities in situations of humanitarian crisis. It provides a cogent critique of modern approaches to humanitarianism and humanitarian identity while pushing the boundaries of what is possible. It is wide ranging and explicitly multidisciplinary in its approach, drawing on philosophy, social psychology, anthropology, and politics/international relations, as well as literature from the humanitarian community and the author’s significant experience in the field. As such, the thesis goes beyond traditional literatures which focus, in particular, on the practical and international political contexts of humanitarian action, to examine the construction of identity and trust in broader socio-political contexts. Indeed, it is Gordon-Gibson’s extensive experience as a humanitarian practitioner that provides unique insights and perspectives on the construction and legitimacy of humanitarian action. Rather than focus on the more prominent principles of humanitarian action – namely neutrality, impartiality, and independence – which are most frequently cited and studied in the literature, the thesis examines two other ‘core’ principles (at least from the Red Cross Movement perspective) which are understudied – voluntary service and universality to construct a unique argument in favour of a more minimalist, universal humanitarian identity capable of responding and adapting to a variety of contexts with a community-centred approach. This very deep multi-disciplinary philosophical approach is thus a unique contribution to the study of humanitarianism. It is critical, reflective, and forward-looking while drawing on historical experience. It has the potential to lead to a reassessment of discourse around identity of humanitarian actors, and as such is essential reading both for humanitarian practitioners and those seeking to understand humanitarian action. -- Kurt Mills, Author of International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and PalliateIn Humanitarians on the Frontier, Alasdair Gordon-Gibson masterfully deconstructs humanitarian identity to its core – and reassembles it again around the often-overlooked concepts of voluntary service and universality. Diving into the philosophical dilemmas of humanitarian identity through history and across diverse practices and cases, the book offers hope for a universalist idea of a community with a common purpose – a more inclusive, prosocial, and representative humanitarian space. The book is written with a deep sense of concern for a humanitarian system in a crisis, amid the growing public mistrust of political authority and humanitarian neutrality and impartiality around the world. It is only through reconnecting the humanitarian sector with those it seeks to assist and by ‘rehumanising’ humanitarian discourse – as the author expertly argues – that better, interdependent, and more trusted humanitarian relations can be established. -- Dmitry Chernobrov, Senior Lecturer in Media and International Politics, University of Sheffield, Author of Public Perception of International Crises: Identity, Ontological Security and Self-AffirmationTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Humanitarian RelationsChapter 2. Voluntary Service: Its Place in the Social FabricChapter 3. Evolving Expressions of Humanitarian SpaceChapter 4. The Social Identity of the NicheChapter 5. Risks and OpportunitiesChapter 6. The Spirit of Humanity: A Universal AppealChapter 7. Case StudiesChapter 8. Re-Harbouring the HumanitariansChapter 9. Changing the Social OrderBibliography

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Book SynopsisHow do we measure peace, and whose peace are we measuring? This insightful, cutting-edge text, global in scope, addresses the wicked, thorny problem of peacebuilding evaluation by gathering contemporary research and best practices for assessing peacebuilding across multiple settings and challenges. Replete with evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies, collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods tools, continuous learning practices, and above all, authentic cases, the contributors parse the inherent challenges of conflict and peace. Students entering the field, whether as practitioners, researchers, donors, policymakers, or community organizers, will benefit from this book’s creative approaches, intellectual rigor, and practical examples of navigating and evaluating the political, personal, relational, and institutional challenges of measuring the effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts.

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