Peace studies and conflict resolution Books

Book SynopsisA study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.Trade Review"Wayne Bert provides a thoughtful assessment of previous American military actions. In doing so, the author makes an excellent case for tempered and rational assessments of military action, prior to the initiation of force." - Political Science Quarterly "Wayne Bert has written a serious, but very readable, study of the combination of idealism and aggressiveness that for more than a century has resulted in U.S. military interventions that almost always have failed to accomplish their objectives - either for the United States or for the target peoples and countries. Bert shows that in most cases, from the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century to Iraq in the early 21st century, the United States had no clear national security interest involved before intervention. Moreover, the 'American style of war,' which relies on overwhelming materiel superiority, was ill suited to the low-intensity warfare that ensued. As a result, he concludes, "One could make an idealistic case for all these wars, but no matter how desirable the outcome, there would still be the problem of persuading the listener that the benefits of the intervention exceeded the political, economic and human costs it sustained for both the United States and the target country." The case studies in which Bert develops his argument demonstrate the impact of ethnocentrism, even racism, on the making and execution of U.S. policy, as well as the serious difficulty until very recently in Iraq and Afghanistan that the United States has had in adapting military policy to the realities of insurgency.The reader concerned about putting the recent U.S. experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq into historical context will find American Military Intervention in Unconventional War a thoughtful and thought-provoking introduction to the topic. The book should become required reading for any future team of U.S. security advisors considering overseas military intervention." - Roger E. Kanet, Professor, University of MiamiTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION The New International Environment US Policies: Origins and Objectives Counterinsurgency and US Adaptation to Fourth Generation War PART II: CASE STUDIES The Philippines: 1898-1901 Vietnam: 1945-73 Bosnia: 1991-95 Afghanistan: 2001 Iraq: 2003 PART III: CONCLUSION The Perils of Intervention

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Book SynopsisThis book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia and Mexico. These countries form the ideal comparative case study of RMA, both from above by the state, and below by civil society.Table of ContentsIntroduction * Historical Aspects of Colombia's Strategic Landscape * Plan Colombia * Colombia and the Privatization of Warfare * Historical Aspects of Mexico's Strategic Landscape * Fight or Flight: Insurgency and Migration, Surveillance, and Complexity * Economic Dimensions of the RMA: Privatized War, Neo-liberal Strategy, and Public Resistance * Conclusion

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Book SynopsisExplaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book uses examples drawn from recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf to examine many dimensions of costs incurred by warfare and proposes a private sector solution to warfare''s low cost.Trade Review'The message of Conflicts and Wars is clear: conflicts and wars are more costly than we imagine. We need a new approach to prevent conflicts. Askari provides us with a new and imaginative roadmap. This book is essential reading for everyone who labors in the pursuit of peace. That especially includes policymakers and politicians who espouse peace while supplying and supporting aggressors around the globe.' From the foreword by George A. Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001, and Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley "An idea whose time has come. From the beginnings of civilization humankind has prayed for peace while plotting war. Hossein Askari compels us to look at the cost of war and challenges us to act for peace. A thought-provoking and essential read in this day and age." Mac Maharaj, former ANC lead negotiator in talks with the National Party Government, former joint secretary of the Transitional Executive Council, and first minister of transportation in the Mandela government 'This is one of those rare books that comes along occasionally to provide an original perspective on a timeless problem. Written in an engaging, lively and accessible style, Conflicts and Wars provides a masterful insight to the factors underlying wars and seemingly endless conflict around the world. Wars have always been condemned on moral grounds. However, Askari combines sound history with economic analysis to document the fact that wars, even before the current age of austerity, have become simply too expensive to pursue. His novel solution to ending conflict will no doubt spark a serious discussion that will hopefully aid in significantly reducing conflict in our time.' Robert Looney, distinguished professor, Naval Postgraduate School 'In Conflicts and Wars, Hossein Askari provides in understandable layman's terms a meticulous review of the literature on the costs of warfare. Offering his own blended methodology, Askari exposes the ghastly costs of human carnage, which are universally underestimated. He also provides insightful institutional recommendations to impose the costs of war directly upon aggressive leaders and nations as well as on private weapons producers. This masterful work is a must-read for national security scholars and for everyone interested in the future of mankind.' Donald L. Losman, professor of Economics, The Eisenhower School, National Defense University 'A thought-provoking and unique analysis of the impact of aggression on the powerless. Hossein Askari's real genius, however, is his solution-based action plan asking for active global citizenship to help the political and diplomatic establishment to become more effective in preventing conflicts and improving the lives of all world citizens. I have known Hossein Askari for over 40 years, first as his student at Tufts and then as my mentor and friend and I have always witnessed his keen intellect coupled with a strong sense of ethics.' Robert Bendetson, Tufts University Trustee and co-chair of Tufts University Institute for Global LeadershipTable of ContentsForeword - George A. Akerlof A Glance at Recent Conflicts and Wars Estimating the Price of Conflicts and Wars The Seeds of Conflict and War—the Persian Gulf The Global Costs of Three Wars in the Persian Gulf How Conflicts and Wars Can Be Ended

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Book SynopsisThis unique comparative study examines minority representation and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslavia. Presenting a new concept of the 'consociational party', Bogaards explores how diversity differs within parties and why it matters for social peace and democracy.Trade Review"This new book by Matthijs Bogaards makes a significant and highly original contribution to the literature on consociational democracy by studying the seven major political parties that have been internally consociational. It constitutes a crucial theoretical advance that will be of great interest to all scholars and students who study the problems of divided societies." - Arend Lijphart, University of California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Consociational Party 2. The Alliance Model 3. The Congress Model 4. Non-democratic Consociational Parties 5. From Inter- to Intraparty Consociationalism in South Africa? 6. The Origins and Institutional Environment of Consociational Parties Conclusion

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Book SynopsisUnlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the ''just war'' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: ''If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?''Trade Review'David Chan offers a Copernican Revolution in thinking about the ethics of war. He utilizes virtue ethics instead of the traditional deontological and consequentialist approaches to just war theory. Arguing that the just war tradition has been overly permissive, Chan asks us to consider how virtuous leaders would approach war as a tragic choice, which forces the virtuous person to choose the evil of war. With subtlety and historical insight, Chan situates his own 'philosophy of co-existence' somewhere between pacifism and traditional just war theory.' - Andrew Fiala, Department of Philosophy, California State University, USATable of ContentsForeword; C.Card Preface Introduction: The State of Ethics of War The Moral Problem of War Just War Reconsidered From Rights to Virtues War as an Evil The Philosophy of Co-Existence Theoretical Implications and Challenges Practical Implications and Challenges Is War Ever Justified? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnder the growing shadow of the Cold War, President Eisenhower announced his ''Open Skies'' initiative to Soviet, British and French delegations at the Geneva Summit in 1955. In a climate of intense fear and suspicion, this proposed system of mutual aerial inspection was dismissed by Khrushchev and the Soviet Union as nothing more than an ''espionage plot''. Nevertheless, Eisenhower campaigned for its implementation until the end of his presidency. Here, Helen Bury provides a new interpretation of Eisenhower''s ''Open Skies'' programme, arguing that it functioned as a corrective to John Foster Dulles'' ''New Look'' defence strategy - which relied on the threat of massive nuclear retaliation. A critic of the ''military-industrial'' complex which was gaining power in American statecraft and which sought to expand military spending, Eisenhower aimed instead to safeguard the economic strength of America. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex is the first in-depth study of the OpenTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter I In the Shadow of the Specialists on Violence: American Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1945 – 1953 Chapter II Eisenhower and the New Look Chapter III Eisenhower, Rockefeller and the Evolution of Open Skies Chapter IV The Aftermath of the Geneva Summit Chapter V The Challenge to Massive Retaliation Chapter VI Sputnik, Missiles and Open Skies Chapter VII Eisenhower’s Final Struggle Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIsabella Lazzarini is Professor of History at the University of Molise, Italy. She is the co-editor, along with Andrea Gamberini, of The Italian Renaissance State (2014).Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Definitions of Peace 2. Human Nature, Peace, and War 3. Peace, War, and Gender 4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion 5. Representations of Peace 6. Peace as Integration 7. Peace Movements 8. Peace, Security and Deterrence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRonald Edsforth is Distinguished Senior Lecturer in History and Chair of Globalization Studies in the Masters in Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program at Dartmouth College, USA. He is the author of The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression(2000) and Class, Capital and Cultural Consensus (1986). He is also the co-editor, along with Larry Bennett, of Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America (1991).Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Definitions of Peace 2. Human Nature, Peace, and War 3. Peace, War, and Gender 4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion 5. Representations of Peace 6. Peace as Integration 7. Peace Movements 8. Peace, Security and Deterrence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years.Trade ReviewThis is serious stuff, and will probably appeal only to serious students of such matters, but I find it particularly significant that Douglas Roche just happens to be a member of possibly the most enlightened of the western world's government, in Canada. * Books Monthly *

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Book SynopsisProvides a socio-legal analysis of cultural norms and the right to conscientious objection in Turkey

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Book SynopsisThe book analyses the phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs citizens with no official authority who initiate dialogue channels with official representatives in order to promote conflict resolution. The research combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts. -- .

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Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the 20th century, Colombia suffered extreme levels of political violence. This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia. The book focuses on key donors, including the US, the EU, Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as multinational actors, such as the UN and the World Bank, to demonstrate how their framing of local issues for national and international consumption can have real world implications for peacebuilding efforts on the ground.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theoretical Assumptions: Framing Projections in International Scenarios 2. Spatial Framing and Methodology Choices 3. Peacebuilding Efforts in Colombia: National Agendas and Management of International Cooperation 4. Peacebuilding Efforts in Colombia: Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation 5. Local Views Regarding International Actors 6. International Actors’ Framing of Peacebuilding Spaces 7. International Actors’ Framing of Peacebuilding Agendas 8. Conclusions

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Book Synopsis• Underscores the problematic gap between transitional justice (TJ) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) theory with practice; • Engages with critical debates on the ethics of research on gender and conflict.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reparation, Reintegration and Transformation 2. Gender, Violence and Reconciliation in Colombia 3. Tales of Machismo and Motherhood: Gendered Changes Across War and Peace 4. Between Victimization and Agency: Gendered Victim-Perpetrator Dichotomies 5: Gendering Reconciliation? The ‘Differential Perspective’ of Reparation and Reintegration 6: Gradations of Citizenship: Of Radical Agrarian Citizens and Transitional Justice Bureaucracies 7: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizenship: Imagining Post-Conflict Gender Equality 8: Conclusion: From Victimhood to Citizenship Appendix: Checklist for Ethics in Research on Gender and Conflict

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Book SynopsisThrough two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context.

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Book SynopsisThe rise of peace education both in scholarship and in practice has yielded numerous documents, websites, and publications with often divergent perspectives on what the field is, does, and means. The Encyclopedia of Peace Education provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly developments in the field to date, so as to provide a common denominator for the various actors involved in advancing peace education internationally. Thus, this edited volume serves as an essential reference guide that traces the history and emergence of the field, highlights foundational concepts, contextualizes peace education practice across international and disciplinary borders, and suggests new directions for peace educators. From core conceptual perspectives to the moral and spiritual foundations of the field to the role of the United Nations, the Encyclopedia grounds peace education in a solid theoretical and practical framework through the writings of the field's most renowned scholars. This volume will target undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and practitioners working in international and non-governmental organizations in the field of peace education.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Monisha Bajaj.; Section I: The Historical Emergence of and Influences on Peace Education. History of Peace Education, Ian Harris. John Dewey and Peace Education, Charles Howlett. Maria Montessori and Peace Education, Cheryl Duckworth. Paulo Freire and Peace Education, Lesley Bartlett.; Section II: Foundational Perspectives in Peace Education. From and Content of Peace Education, Johan Galtung. Conceptual Perspectives in Peace Education, Magnus Haavelsrud. The Moral and Spiritual Foundations of Peace Education, Dale Snauwaert. The United Nations and Peace Education, James Page.; Section III: Core Concepts in Peace Education. Caring and Peace Education, Nel Noddings. Countering Militarism Through Peace Education, Carl Mirra. Human Rights Education, Felisa Tibbitts. Global Citizenship Education, Lynn Davies.; Section IV: Frameworks and New Directions for Peace Education. Comparative and International Education and Peace Education, Robin Burns. Futures Studies and Peace Education, David Hicks. ""Critical"" Peace Education, Monisha Bajaj. Unity-Based Peace Education, H. B. Danesh. About the Authors. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a functional taxonomy to see, understand and manipulate the roots of life's conflicts. You will have the background, the principles, and a collection of tricks to manage and ideally avoid dangerous conflicts. You may not realize that your reactions to conflict are subconscious, scripted, and for the good of the group. Once recognized, you can take actions that will reduce your chances of being caught up in conflicts. After reading this book, you can never go back. Even if you refuse to admit how often your monkey brain has controlled your life, escalations leading to conflict will never again be invisible to you.Trade ReviewA manual of advice born of long experience with violence...Unpleasant but useful information, particularly for those who routinely come in contact with highly aggressive people. Kirkus Concise, helpful, and well-organized, this is strongly recommended reading for those interested in learning to verbally de-escalate violence. Foreword Reviews Like the Post-it(R) note, Conflict Communications is something you never knew you needed but cannot live without. The materials are straightforward and easy to apply, yet profoundly insightful. Once you begin to recognize the patterns that Miller describes within yourself and others it will forever change the way you interact. Armed with this new information I was able to resolve a longstanding deadlock on a $168M contract in less than two hours. It's amazingly powerful and wholeheartedly recommended. -- Lawrence Kane, Sensei; Sr. Leader, ITI Strategy, Sourcing, and Asset Management at a Fortune(R) 50 company; best selling author A set of extremely effective tools for predicting, avoiding, and managing conflicts. -- MAJ Gregory Postal, MD ...a priceless skill... -- Jack Hoban Should be mandatory reading... -- Tony Blauer, Blauer Tactical Systems Breaks out of the martial arts and law enforcement genre... -- Jeffrey Cooper, MD, Emergency Physician, Tactical Physician, 6th Dan, Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate The standard by which others [writing] on the subject shall be judged. -- Steve Perry, New York Times bestselling author, Shadows of the Empire Won't just help your relationships, it just might save your life. -- Alain B. Burrese, JD

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Book SynopsisCourageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and transformative action, and creatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and the United States. Complemented by a website of related materials, a documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage, that features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," that is included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, human rights activists, students of peace and justice studies, and whoever wishes to better understand conflict and the power of art to bring about social change. The Acting Together project is born of a collaboration between Theatre Without Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University. The two volumes are edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a leading figure in creative approaches to coexistence and reconciliation; Roberto Gutierrez Varea, an award-winning director and associate professor at the University of San Francisco; and Polly O. Walker, director of Partners in Peace, an NGO based in Brisbane, Australia..Trade Review"Acting Together places before us the human story unfolding. It invites us to penetrate through the mask to the source and the vibrating essence of voice on the journey to find our way back to humanity." -- John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame"An invaluable resource for the community of practitioners, students, scholars, and activists who are interested in the role of the arts in overcoming the worst of contemporary violence, war, and disaster." -- James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester"Thanks to the vision and the courageous creativity of the theatre artists across the world who have been willing to share their practice, we in Northern Ireland have new tools to help us excavate our truths and our troubled pasts, to speak to them and to dare to envision a future where our broken world will be healed." -- Pauline Ross, Artistic Director, Derry Playhouse, Northern Ireland"This publication is long overdue and will serve theatre students, directors, foundations, community-based theatres, and artist-based theatres as a much-needed guide to the complex, multilayered world of intercultural performance and conflict resolution." -- Frank Hentschker, Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center"A significant addition to an emerging field of expertise―performance and conflict. It is difficult not to be inspired by the sheer diversity and versatility of the practices explored." -- Michael Balfour, Chair in Applied and Social Theatre, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia"Acting Together will shift perspectives and change lives. It could transform the trajectory of human conflicts." -- Dr. Michelle LeBaron, University of British Columbia School of Law, Canada"For the first time, the anthology and the Acting Together project provide a platform for peace-building artists to connect and to reflect on their work together with other scholars and practitioners. That in itself is already a significant achievement of the editors and curators of this complex and fascinating collection." -- Serge Loode, Applied Theatre Research

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Book SynopsisThe next crisis might be here now, or it might be around the corner. In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two history-making experts in crisis leadership-James, dean of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wooten, president of Simmons University-forcefully argue that the time to prepare is always.In no other time in recent history have leaders in every industry and on every continent grappled with so many changes that have independently and simultaneously undermined their ability to lead. The Prepared Leader encapsulates more than two decades of the authors' research to convey how it has positioned them to navigate through the distinct challenges of today and tomorrow. Their insights have implications for every leader in every industry and every worker at every level.In their fast-reading and actionable book, James and Wooten provide tools and frameworks for addressing and learning from crises, and they provide insight into what you need to know to become a Prepared Leader, including:--The five phases of crisis management and the skills you need for each phase. They examine how the National Basketball Association and its commissioner, Adam Silver, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.--Making the right decisions under pressure and how to avoid common mistakes. They reveal how Burger King CEO Jose Cil began planning for the aftermath of a crisis right in the middle of one.--Building a crisis leadership team and how to lead one that you've inherited. They detail how Wonya Lucas, CEO and President of the Crown Media Family Networks, aligned and mobilized an executive team during a time of crisis.James and Wooten argue that-in addition to people, profit, and the planet-prepared leadership should be the fourth P in a company's bottom line. They bring decades of world-renowned research on crisis leadership, diversity and inclusion, management strategy, and positive leadership to the table to help leaders better prepare themselves to lead through crises-and for whatever lies around the corner.

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Book SynopsisIn the past decade, heroes and villains spawned from the pages of comic books have upended popular culture and revolutionised the entertainment industry. The narratives weave together a multitude of complementary and sometimes competing storylines, spun across decades, generations, and mediums, forming a complex tapestry that simultaneously captures the imagination and captivates the mind. These stories reveal our own vulnerabilities while casting an ideal to which we aspire. They pull at our deepest emotions and push us to the cusp of reality, and bring us back to Earth with a renewed hope of a better tomorrow. They are an endless source of powerful metaphors to help us learn and develop, then be the best versions of ourselves possible.Through the lens of the superhero genre, each chapter explores contemporary challenges in leadership, team building, and conflict, while emphasising the role of humanity and human nature in our own world.Contributors: Ian Boley; Jo Brick; Mitch Brian; Max Brooks; Mike Burke; Kelsey Cipolla; Amelia Cohen-Levy; Mick Cook; Jeff Drake; Clara Engle; Candice Frost; Ronald Granieri, PhD; Heather S. Gregg, PhD; James Groves; Geoff Harkness, PhD; Theresa Hitchens; Kayla Hodges; Cory Hollon, PhD; Joshua Huminski; Erica Iverson; Alyssa Jones; Mathew Klickstein; Jonathan Klug; Matt Lancaster; Steve Leonard; Karolyn McEwen; Eric Muirhead; Jon Niccum; Kera Rolsen; Mick Ryan; Julie Still; Patrick Sullivan; Aaron Rahsaan Thomas; Dan Ward; and Janeen Webb, PhD.Table of ContentsForeword by Jon Niccum Introduction PART I: GREAT RESPONSIBILITY 1 Boys Will Be Boys by Kayla Hodges 2 Call it, Captain by Cory S. Hollon 3 The Rise of a Reluctant Leader by Mick Ryan 4 The Unexpected Hero by Kari McEwen 5 The Command of Masks by Ronald J. Granieri 6 Ethical Excellence Through Decisive Dimness by Jeff Drake PART II: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! 7 Blood in the Inkwell by Geoff Harkness 8 We Could Be (Super)Heroes by Heather S. Gregg 9 When Being a Superhero Ain’t So Super by Mathew Klickstein 10 Lumberjanes and Team Building the Hardcore Lady-Type Way by Julie M. Still 11 There Was an Idea by Amelia Cohen-Levy 12 The Ordinary, Everyday Superhero by Mike Burke PART III: GREEN LANTERN’S LIGHT! 13 The River of Truth by Matt Lancaster 14 They Only Lack the Light to Show the Way by Eric Muirhead 15 Could the Sokovia Accords Save the (Real) World? by Theresa Hitchens 16 A Fitting End for His Kind by Jo Brick 17 Injustice for All by James Groves 18 It’s Not Just Black and White by Alyssa Jones 19 Black Vibranium in the Hour of Chaos by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas PART IV: IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME! 20 Who Runs the World? Squirrels! by Kelsey Cipolla 21 Your Cape and Cowl, Mr. Bond? by Mitch Brian 22 Trick or Deceit by Erica Iverson 23 Unbeatable by Dan Ward 24 The Veidt Method by Ian Boley PART V: TO THE BATCAVE! 25 I’ve Come to Save the World by Kera Rolsen 26 Your Ancestors Called It Magic, But You Call It Science by Jonathan Klug 27 Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? by Candice E. Frost 28 To the Warrior, Their Arms by Mick Cook 29 We Need to Be Put in Check by Clara Engle PART VI: KNEEL BEFORE ZOD! 30 The Caped Crusader and the Road to Radicalism by Max Brooks 31 Where Monsters Dwell by Steven Leonard 32 Marvel Zombies by Jon Niccum 33 Strip Mining the Superhero Archetype by Janeen Webb 34 The New Gods by Patrick Sullivan 35 ХАЙЛЬ ГИДРА! by Joshua C. Huminski Contributors

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Book SynopsisOver the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics and peace science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Foreword. The Global Peace Index and the Structure of Peace. The European Expansion Toward Middle East Conflicts and Economic Convergence (2000–2010). A Foundational Mathematical Account of a Specific Complex Social Reality: Conflict in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Language as a Tool of Reconciliation and Ethnic Harmony: A Case Study of Sri Lanka. The Alchemy of Global Emissions Trading Scheme (GETS): Speculation and Regulation. Decentralization and Military Coups. Conflict of Civil-Military Approach in Pakistan: Its Regional Implications. Knowledge Creation and Innovation in Medium Technology Clusters. The Terrain of War: How Using the Word “Mountain” Biases Conflict Research. Peace-Building and Geopolitical Fantasies. Satyagraha: Gandhi's Approach to Conflict Resolution. International Economic and Financial Crisis: Relevance of a Gandhian Approach. Perspectives on Democracy and Civil Society in India. Cooperation for a Peaceful and Sustainable World Part 1. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Copyright page. List of Contributors.

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Book Synopsis Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation to violent escalations. This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices. On Retaliation presents a synthesized approach to both the violence-generating and violence-avoiding potentials of retaliation. Contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment and the factors of socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations and economic processes.Trade Review “On Retaliation is impressive, exciting and full of insight. It will be a valuable and widely referred to contribution to academic scholarship and to policy formation in an extremely critical area of national and global concern.” · Andrew Arno, University of Hawai’iTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: On Retaliation: Conceptual Plurality, Transdisciplinary Research, Rifts, Blurrings and Translations Bertram Turner SECTION I: RETALIATION AND THE HUMAN NATURE: THE SEARCH FOR UNIVERSALITIES? Chapter 1. Revenge and Retaliation: A Social-functionalist Approach Mario Gollwitzer and Arne Sjöström Chapter 2. In The Heart of the Moment: The Influence of Visceral Factors on Retaliation Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp SECTION II: RETALIATION IN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE Chapter 3. A Criminal is a Victim is a Criminal? An Economist’s View on the Victim-Offender Overlap Horst Entorf Chapter 4. Laypeople’s Reactions to Deviancy as Determined by Retributive Motives Margit E. Oswald SECTION III: RETALIATION AND PUNISHMENT: ENCOUNTER OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL NORMATIVITIES Chapter 5. Violent Crimes and Retaliation in the European Criminal Justice System between the Seventeenth and Nineteen Centuries Karl Härter Chapter 6. Crime in Motion: Predation, Retaliation and the Spread of Urban Violence Richard Wright, Volkan Topalli and Scott Jacques SECTION IV: FAITH-BASED RETALIATION: SPIRITUALITY AND NORMATIVITY OF THE RETALIATORY GRAMMAR Chapter 7. Crime and Punishment: Intentionality and Diya in Algeria and Sudan Yazid Ben Hounet Chapter 8. ‘Bewitched People and Bad Luck Everywhere!’ Disputing and Magical Retaliation in SiSwati-Speaking Southern Africa Severin Lenart SECTION V: RETALIATION IN NEGOTIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDERS Chapter 9. Forum Shopping as Retaliation in Disguise: How Nomadic Fulbe Condemn Retaliation and Forum Shopping, but Practise Them Anyway Albert K. Drent Chapter 10. Customary Law and the Joys of Statelessness: Somali Realities beyond Libertarian Fantasies Günther Schlee SECTION VI: TRAVELLING MODELS OF RETALIATION: POST-CONFLICT SCENARIOS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ON THE GROUND Chapter 11. Retaliation in Postwar Times: An Analysis of the Rhetoric and Practices of Retaliation in Bamyan, Afghanistan, 2009 Friederike Stahlmann Chapter 12. The International Criminal Court Reparation System: Punishment, Retaliation, Restoration Pietro Sullo Conclusion: Retaliation in Specific Spheres of Effectiveness Bertram Turner Index

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Book SynopsisThe Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences have largely been excluded from accounts of the conflict. In Liberia’s Women Veterans, Leena Vastapuu uses an innovative auto-photographic methodology to tell the story of two of Africa’s most brutal civil wars through the eyes of 133 female former soldiers. Incorporating their testimonies alongside a series of vivid illustrations by Emmi Nieminen, the book provides an in-depth account of these women’s experiences of trauma, stigma, and the challenges of reintegration into post-war society, as well as their hopes and aspirations for the future. Vastapuu argues that these women, too often been perceived merely as passive victims of the conflict, can in fact play an important role in post-war reconciliation and peace-building. Overturning gendered perceptions of warfare and militarism, the book provides a unique take on humanitarian practices and post-conflict societies, making essential reading for policymakers as well as students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.Trade ReviewA beautiful meditation on the ways in which young female veterans in Liberia navigate life after war. Employing a set of unique methodologies, Liberia’s Women Veterans will become a key text in its field. * Annick T.R. Wibben, University of San Francisco *Fresh. Daring. Artistic. Humane. Its breakthrough methods and a willingness to operate outside the box result in fascinating accounts of women who fought in Liberia's wars. * Christine Sylvester, University of Connecticut *Vastapuu and Nieminen have compelled me to think afresh about female veterans' post-war lives. Anyone curious about the complex lives of women during and after wars will be gripped by this eye-opening book. * Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy *Vastapuu makes a compelling case for gender to be mainstreamed in post-conflict reconstructive spaces. This book is among the very best to be written on youth, militarization, and coming of age. * Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University *Vastapuu not only offers a harrowing account of suffering as well as triumph over adversity, but also advances a truly innovative approach that makes this book highly relevant to a wide set of readers interested in questions of gender, violence and politics. * Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland *Table of ContentsPreface: Liberia at War Introduction: Hell is the Absolute Lack of Being Heard 1. Auto-Photographing Rivers of Insecurities 2. Young Female Soldiers in Liberia’s Civil Wars 3. DDR: Disarmament, Disillusionment and Remarginalization 4. Social Rafting in Post-War Liberia 5. Let my Children’s Future be Alright Conclusion Epilogue: ‘When I sing, I can forget about my problems’

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Book SynopsisSince the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP’s temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the “Presidential Government System” was established in July 2018. Turkey’s New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.Trade Review'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments. * Werner Bonefeld, The University of York *This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey. * Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London *Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! * Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Global political context of state transformation 1. Social constitution of the AKP’s strong state through financialization: State in crisis, or crisis state? 2. Deconstitutionalization and the state crisis in Turkey: What role for the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights? 3. Turkey’s double movement: Islamists, neoliberalism, and foreign policy 4. The shift of axis or business as usual? Turkey’s S-400 procurement decision and defense industry Part II: Politics of economic management 5. Understanding the recent rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in terms of the structural contradictions of capital accumulation process 6. Turkey’s financial slide: Discipline by credit in the last decade of the AKP rule 7. AKP’s move from depoliticization to repoliticization in economic management 8. AKP’s income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt Part III: Politics of domination 9. The transformation of the state-religion relationship under the AKP: The case of the Diyanet 10. From military tutelage to nowhere: On the limitations of civil-military dualism in making sense of the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in the 2010s 11. Courtrooms as solidarity spaces and trials as sentences: Defending your rights and asking for accountability in Turkey 12. SETA: From AKP’s organic intellectuals to AK-paratchiks Part IV: Politics of coercion 13. Domesticating politics, de-gendering women: State violence against politically active women in Turkey 14. War on drugs: A view from Turkey 15. “The law of the city?”: Social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on the margin

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Book SynopsisWhy Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.Trade Review'An amazingly comprehensive study . . . fascinating.’‘Gegout’s book constitutes a solid and extremely comprehensive overview of interventionism in Africa . . . a welcome contribution.’ '[An] ambitious and prodigiously researched book . . . Gegout's work is compelling and should be of significant interest to scholars and practitioners.'‘A great contribution to the conceptualization of security, prestige, intervention, humanitarianism, conflict, and economic motivation . . . a provocative, critical and insightful reading about the real motives of interventions and their long-lasting impacts.' 'This volume fills a significant gap in the literature on the foreign and security policies of the EU and its member states by providing an understanding of military interventions in Africa. In its combination of new conceptualisation and extended empirical work Why Europe Intervenes in Africa provides stimulating analysis alongside food for thought on the future basis for interventions.' -- Richard G. Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent'Anyone who wishes to know more about why European states and the European Union intervene in Africa should start with this book. Gegout provides a masterfully comprehensive account of European interventions in Africa in the post-Cold War era, and constructs an innovative theoretical framework to explain both interventions and non-interventions. Economic and security interests predominate but humanitarianism does not, while concerns about prestige are perhaps surprisingly relevant in numerous cases. Highly recommended reading.' -- Karen E. Smith, Professor International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science'Catherine Gegout has provided us with a deeply researched and incisive treatment of Europe’s post-colonial military interventions in Africa -- a subject which too often flies beneath the radar. In so doing she establishes herself as the most authoritative voice in the field. Her book is essential reading for Africanists and Europeanists alike.' -- Christopher Hill, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor of International Relations, SAIS Europe, Johns Hopkins University

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Book SynopsisWhat is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards, does military strategy have any relevance? This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point. Which strategies are needed? Is ways-ends-means thinking possible as a strategic template today? The contributors probe the relative importance, utility and options of military strategy across NATO as it confronts a variety of challenges old and new, as hybrid threats, new nuclear risks and conventional force combine in complex ways. They also examine what military strategy and military integration really mean, when NATO's multilateral framework is being weakened by degrees of self-interest. They analyse the USA's political and military role in Europe, and assess military strategic responses to Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Middle East. Moreover, they study the role of member states' military strategy set against Article 5 and non-Article 5 risks and threats, and explore how European states devise and implement military strategic options. This book makes a clear assessment of political level strategy and its implications for military integration.Trade Review'A sobering and stimulating set of essays which remind us of the importance of military strategy and the difficulty of getting politicians to think strategically. The authors take aim at some dangerous misconceptions which, unless addressed, will continue to weaken the Western alliance.' -- Christopher Coker, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, and author of 'The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict''Two world-leading experts have recruited the winning team in the current Olympics of strategy-making. Exploring the complexity of strategy and its cultural variations, this book provides a valuable update on individual states' positions. This should be on every IR reading list!' -- Beatrice Heuser, Professor of International Relations, University of Glasgow'This excellent new book provides a much-needed, in-depth analysis of the concept of military strategy, the utility of military force and the differing approaches of NATO member-states to the wide range of challenges facing the alliance in the 21st century.' -- Tracey German, Reader in Conflict and Security, King’s College London

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Book SynopsisMarty Strong's direct and compelling message is focused on business but in truth, its leadership tenets are agnostic as to industry, marketplace, private or public setting. This is not a textbook. It is a personal conversation between a high-performance business leader and professionals searching for actionable insights that deliver results. Be Nimble provides mentorship, tips, tools, and useful examples to help drive home its valuable leadership insights. Marty Strong has an accomplished leadership career spanning four decades. He worked his way from enlisted SEAL Team member to the SEAL Officer corps, retiring with twenty years’ service in that highly-decorated and esteemed military unit. He is the author of the Time Warrior Sagas and the SEAL Strike Series.

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Book Synopsis Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.Trade Review “Bringing the concept of entanglement to bear on CMR is original, relevant as well as timely in the present circumstances (not to mention that it is a fine edition in terms of form to boot)... Civil-Military Entanglements is a good and important book, signalling a new departure for the anthropology of the military. And the new paradigm it outlines, well-adjusted to the circumstances still (but for how long?) prevailing today, is undoubtedly of interest as an addition to the existing literature.” • Res Militaris “This is an important and most welcome addition to our knowledge of how militaries work and are experienced around the world. Sørensen and Ben-Ari have done a wonderful job of putting together a volume that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of militarization and civil-military connections around the world”. • Andrew Bickford, Georgetown UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Civil-Military Connections: From Relations to Entanglements Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari Chapter 1. The Invisible Uniform: Civil-Military Entanglements in the Everyday Life of Danish Soldiers’ Families Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Maj Hedegaard Heiselberg Chapter 2. Capable Patriots: Narratives of Estonian Women Living with Military Service Members Tiia-Triin Truusa and Kairi Kasearu Chapter 3. Military, Society, and Violence through Popular Culture: Japan's Self-Defense Forces Eyal Ben-Ari Chapter 4. From Obligatory to Optional: Thirty Years of Civil-Military Entanglements in Norway Elin Gustavsen and Torunn Laugen Haaland Chapter 5. Framing the Other in Times of War and Terror: Explorations of the Military in Germany Maren Tomforde Chapter 6. Domesticating Civil-Military Entanglement: Multiplicity and Transnationality of Retired British Gurkhas’ Citizenship Negotiation Taeko Uesugi Chapter 7. Civil-Military Relations from International Conflict Zones to the United States: Notes on Mutual Discontents and Disruptive Logics Robert A. Rubinstein and Corri Zoli Chapter 8. The Entangled Soldier: On the Messiness of War/Law/Morality Thomas Randrup Pedersen Chapter 9. Mobility through Self-Defined Expertise: Israeli Security from the Occupation to Kenya Erella Grassiani Chapter 10. Explaining Efficiency, Seeking Recognition: Experiences of Argentine Peacekeepers in Haiti Sabina Frederic Chapter 11. Crossing over Barbed-Wire Entanglements of U.S. Military Bases: On Environmental Issues around MCAS Futenma in Okinawa, Japan Masakazu Tanaka Chapter 12. The Entanglements of Military Research at Home and Abroad: An Experience of an Israeli Anthropologist Nir Gazit Afterword: Three Interpretations of Civil-Military Entanglements Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari Index

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Book SynopsisOn the Borders of World-Systems: Contact Zones in Ancient and Modern Times draws on a diverse set of disciplines to explore historical, archaeological, and political interpretations of world-systems theory and geocivilizational analysis. The monograph has a prospective character, the main goal of which is the solution of a major problem – the study of worldwide practice, oriented towards the problems of the modern social world as a system. The principal focus is on the borderland - limes, which has been perceived variously as an impenetrable cordon, and as an open, interactive environment. In this locus of inter-world encounters, different civilizations developed, and an exchange of goods and ideas took place. Macrosociological issues of ancient and modern history are analyzed through five case studies of the Taurus-Caucasus region and its role as a contact zone in different periods.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Euphrates frontier in the Byzantine period: undergoing the new reality – Yervand Margaryan ; Mountainous landscapes as bounded territories: The northern gates of the Euphrates-Tigris contact zone – Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan ; ‘The Caucasian Frontier’ and Terek Cossacks – Aram Kosyan & Beniamin Mailyan ; Jewish history within the framework of frontier theory – Vladimir Ruzhansky

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Book Synopsis Since 1814 Sweden has avoided involvement in armed conflicts and carried out policies of non-alignment in peacetime and neutrality during war. Even though the Swedish government often describes Sweden as a ‘nation of peace’, in 2004 the 200-year anniversary of that peace passed by with barely any attention. Despite its extraordinary longevity, research about the Swedish experience of enduring peace is underdeveloped. 200 Years of Peace places this long period of peace in broader academic and public discussions surrounding claimed Swedish exceptionality as it is represented in the nation’s social policies, expansive welfare state, eugenics, gender equality programs, and peace.Trade Review “This generous collection of essays portrays salient aspects of Sweden’s policy of neutrality throughout the last 200 years. A truly stimulating read including splendid and sometimes thought-provoking interpretations. The book deserves international attention.” • Rasmus Mariager, University of Copenhagen “This is an interesting volume that (1) provides a clear survey of official (governmental) Swedish foreign policy since 1814 and (2) introduces readers to new perspectives that focus on aspects of ‘public diplomacy’ – diplomacy or elements of international relations that may or may not have had influence on official state policies. The scholarship in the book is excellent and reflects deep dives into neglected topics and neglected sources.” • Byron Nordstrom, Gustavus Adolphus CollegeTable of Contents Introduction: Pax Suecia 1814–2020 Nevra Biltekin, Leos Müller & Magnus Petersson Chapter 1. ‘Long Peace’, Neutrality and Sweden-Norway’s Foreign Policy, 1794–1856 Leos Müller Chapter 2. How Small States Manage to Stay Out of Wars: Explaining Sweden’s 200 Years of Peace Jacob Westberg Chapter 3. Swedish Peace Movements and the Breakup of the Forced Union Between Sweden and Norway in 1905 Fredrik Egefur Chapter 4. The Swedish Lotta Movement and its Neighbours: Navigating Neutrality, Peace Building and Women’s Issues in the Twentieth Century Anne Hedén Chapter 5. The Quest for Neutrality: Sweden, Finland and the Language Question in a Cold War Context Janne Väistö Chapter 6. No Peace Without Equality: The ‘North-South Conflict’ and its Effects on Sweden, the Netherlands and West Germany Christopher Seiberlich Conclusion Nevra Biltekin, Leos Müller & Magnus Petersson

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Book SynopsisAlthough it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities.

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Book SynopsisNew Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development focuses on some of the most serious challenges to human security posed by intra-state conflict and terrorism, interstate wars, predatory globalisation, failed development, poverty and inequality, environmental problems and climate shocks, inefficient governance and man-made and natural disasters. In so doing, this book contributes to the crafting of well-grounded academic and policy responses to global problems that urgently require novel solutions. For its breadth and depth of research, this book is essential reading for researchers working in peace studies, conflict studies, sustainability studies and economics. It is also of keen interest to policymakers in all of these areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Partha Gangopadyay Chapter 1. Rethinking Augustines Law: Armament Costs and Evolving Military Technology; Jurgen Brauer, Keith Hartley and Stefan Markowski Chapter 2. Multilateral Arms Races; Frank C. Zargare Chapter 3. Build Back Better, even Before Disaster: Adaptive Design of Communicative Process, Place and Practice; Norio Okada Chapter 4. Managing Climate-Related Financial Risk: Prospects and Challenges; Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay Chapter 5. Spillover Effects of Transport Infrastructure And Regional Conflicts In Spain; Fernando Barreiro-Pereira Chapter 6. Conflict and Migration; Uma Segal Chapter 7. On the Impacts of Globalisation on Public Employment and Human Security in India: A Long-run Analysis; Partha Gangopadyay, Agung Suwandaru and Walid Bakry Chapter 8. Is India backing out from its Commitment to No First Use of Nuclear Weapons?; P. M. Kamath Chapter 9. Health Security and Equity: A Global Health Histories Perspective; Sanjoy Bhattacharya Chapter 10. Business and Violence; Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 11. Gender & Conflict with special reference to Representation of Women in EUs Energy Sector; Madhumita Chatterji and Anindita Chakrabarti

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Book SynopsisParamilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Through exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised crime present in modern mass atrocities, from Rwanda and Darfur to Syria and Myanmar. Visible paramilitary participation in modern mass atrocities has succeeded in masking the continued dominance of the state in a number of violent crises. Irregular combatants have participated so significantly in committing atrocity crimes because political elites benefit from using unconventional forces to fulfil ambitions that violate international law--and international policy responses are hindered when responsibility for violence is ambiguous. Ferguson's inquiry into these overlooked dynamics of mass violence unveils substantial loopholes in current atrocity prevention architecture. Until these are addressed, state authorities will likely continue to use irregular combatants as perpetrators of atrocity.Trade Review'Architectures of Violence is an important book for anyone committed to the prevention of mass atrocities. Kate Ferguson challenges pervasive assumptions about where these crimes come from and sets us on the road to more effective prevention strategies.' -- Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda'This book provides a new understanding of the role of non-state military actors in identity-based conflicts. It is rich in detail and will contribute much to our understanding of the nature of non-state armed groups--rigorous and insightful.' -- Rachel Kerr, Reader in International Relations and Contemporary War, King's College London'Architectures of Violence is a well-written, comprehensive study of paramilitarism during the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Ferguson strikes a good balance between empirical depth and conceptual breadth--her conclusions are relevant beyond the specific dynamics of that conflict.' -- Ugur Ungor, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam

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Book SynopsisSustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources – from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance.Trade Review"This book is an excellent compendium of such conflicts, their contexts, and innovative ways for peace-building in policy and practice." - Paula Hanasz, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Table of ContentsForeword Introduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive Part 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding Approaches Introduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan 3.Forest Resources in Cambodia’s Transition to Peace: Lessons for Peacebuilding 4. Post-tsunami Aceh: Successful Peacemaking, Uncertain Peacebuilding 5. Manufacturing Peace in "No Man’s Land": Livestock and Access to Resources in the Karimojong Cluster of Kenya and Uganda 6. Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts to Help Prevent War: A Case from Afghanistan Part 2: Innovative Livelihoods Approaches in Post-conflict Settings Introduction 7. The Opportunities and Challenges of Protected Areas for Post-conflict Peacebuilding 8. A Peace Park in the Balkans:Cross-border Cooperation and Livelihood Creation through Coordinated Environmental Conservation 9. Mountain Gorilla Ecotourism: Supporting Macroeconomic Growth and Providing Local Livelihoods 10. The Interface between Natural Resources and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Enhancing Human Security in Post-conflict Settings 11. Demobilized Combatants as Park Rangers: Post-conflict Natural Resource Management in Gorongosa National Park 12. Utilizing Alternative Livelihood Schemes to Solve Conflict Problems in Sierra Leone’s Artisanal Diamond Mining Industry 13. Linking to Peace: Using BioTrade for Biodiversity Conservation and Peacebuilding in Colombia Part 3: The Institutional and Policy Context Introduction 14. Fisheries Policies and the Problem of Instituting Sustainable Management: The Case of Occupied Japan 15. Developing Capacity for Natural Resource Management in Afghanistan: Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned by UNEP 16. Building Resilience in Rural Livelihood Systems as an Investment in Conflict Prevention 17. Improving Natural Resource Governance and Building Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines 18. Commerce in the Chaos: Charcoal, Bananas, Fisheries, and Conflict in Somalia Part 4: Lessons Learned 19. Managing Natural Resources for Livelihoods in Post-conflict Societies: Lessons Learned

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Book SynopsisWhen the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance.Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict countries, but governance failures often jeopardize such efforts. This book examines the theory, practice, and often surprising realities of post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding in fifty conflict-affected countries and territories. It includes thirty-nine chapters written by more than seventy researchers, diplomats, military personnel, and practitioners from governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. The book highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between natural resource management and good governance. Natural resource management is crucial to rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence after conflict. At the same time, good governance is essential for ensuring that natural resource management can meet immediate needs for post-conflict stability and development, while simultaneously laying the foundation for a sustainable peace. Drawing on analyses of the close relationship between governance and natural resource management, the book explores lessons from past conflicts and ongoing reconstruction efforts; illustrates how those lessons may be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective governance initiatives; and presents an emerging theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students.Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high-value resources, land, water, livelihoods, and assessing and restoring natural resources.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction – Humility in the Face of Complexity Introduction. The Role of Natural Resource Management in Reducing the Risk of Conflict Recurrence. Part 2: Awareness – Assessment and Evaluation Introduction. How the Use of Economic Analysis of Environmental Degradation. Can Influence Policy Processes: Experience from Rwanda. Thinking Back-End: Improving Post-Conflict Analysis by Emphasizing Consultation and Scenario Development. Evaluating the Contribution of External Support in Post-Conflict Situations: From Early Recovery to Sustainable Development Part 3: Governance Interventions Introduction. Good Governance - Introduction. The Role of Environmental Law in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Natural Resources, Corruption, and Post-Conflict Transitions. Stopping the Plundering of Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Côte d'Ivoire. Sartor Resartus: Reviewing Concession Reviews – Recent Liberian Experience and the Prospects for Effective Internationalized Solutions. Early Action Fund for Resolving Local Disputes over Natural Resources. Institutions-Introduction. Environmental Experiences and Developments within UN Department of Field Support and Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Bumps in the Road toward Effective Peacekeeping: Lessons from Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of Congo. Reducing the Environmental Boot Print of the Military in Peace Operations. Military - military Engagement on Environment and Natural Disasters: Lessons Learned for Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Review of UNEP Post-Conflict Assessment Experiences. UN Peacebuilding Commission. Taking the Gun out of Natural Resource Exploitation. Mitigating Natural Resource Conflicts through Development Projects: Some Lessons from World Bank Experience. Non-Governmental and Local Institutions. Introduction - Natural Resources and Peacebuilding: The Role of the Private Sector. Legal Pluralism in the Post Conflict Environment: Problem or Opportunity for Natural Resource Management? The Role of Conservation in Promoting Sustainability and Security in at-risk Communities. Marginalized Populations. Introduction - Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management – A Gender Perspective. Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources, and Peacebuilding in Colombia Part 4: Cross-Cutting Issues Introduction. Before the Peace/Preparing for Peace. Preparing for Peace – A Case Study of Darfur, Sudan. Stepping Stones to Peace? Natural Resource Provisions in Peace Agreements. Challenges of Snow Leopard Diplomacy: The Pamirs Transboundary Peace Park. Considerations on When to Include Natural Resources in Peace Agreements. Situating NRM within other Post-Conflict Priorities. 'Green' Peace in Aceh?: Consolidating Peace through the 'Aceh Green' Strategy. Environment and NRM: Interweaving Post-Conflict Humanitarian and Development Response. Conservation as Democracy in Afghanistan. Transition, Justice, and Accountability. Building Momentum and Constituencies for Peace: The Role of Natural Resources in Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. Peace through Justice?: International Tribunals and Accountability for Wartime Environmental Damage. The United Nations Compensation Commission and the 1990-1991 Gulf War: The Role of Natural Resources in International Reconciliation (Iraq/Kuwait). Some Reflections on the UNCC Experience. Confidence Building through NRM. Paving the Way: The Role of the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD) in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Environmental Governance. Perú and Ecuador 'Peace Parks': A Decade after the Peace Settlement Part 5: Emerging Issues and Conclusions Climate Change and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Strengthening. Post-Conflict Governance and Rule of Law through Natural Resource Management. Appendices

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Book SynopsisThe Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have set the world on the path to a second major conflict within a generation. Woodrow Wilson's controversial principle of self-determination amplified political complexities in the Balkans, and the war and its settlement bear significant responsibility for boundaries and related conflicts in the Middle East. Furthermore, other objectives of the peacemakers, such as global disarmament and minority protection, are yet to be realised. A century on, the settlement still casts a long shadow. This book, fully revised and updated with new material for the centenary of the Paris Paris Conferences at Versailles in 1919 sets the consequences - for good or ill - of the Peace Treaties into their longer term context and argues that the responsibility for Europe's continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919-23.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection aims to analytically reconceptualise the Syrian crisis by examining how and why the country has moved from a stable to a war-torn society. It is written by scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, all of whom make no attempt to speculate on the future trajectory of the conflict, but aim instead to examine the historical background that has laid the objective conditions for Syria’s descent to its current situation. Their work represents an attempt to dissect the multi-layered foundation of the Syrian conflict and to make understanding its complex inner workings accessible to a broader readership. The book is divided into four parts, each of which elaborates on the origins and dynamics of today’s crisis from the perspective of a different discipline. When put together, the four parts provide a holistic picture of Syria’s developmental trajectory from the early twentieth century through to the present day. Themes addressed include Syria’s postcolonial development efforts, its leap into socialism and then into neoliberalism in the late twentieth century, its politics within the resistance front, and finally its food and health security concerns.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Syria in the Imperialist Cyclone.- Part I: A Historical Perspective of the Syrian Conflict.- Chapter 2: What Went Wrong: Understanding the Trajectory of Syria’s Conflict.- Chapter 3: The New Struggle for Syria and the Nature of the Syrian State.- Chapter 4: Syria: Strong State versus Social Cleavages.- Part II: Macroeconomy and Society.- Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Framework in Pre-Conflict Syria.- Chapter 6: The Syrian Conflict: Selective Socioeconomic Indicators.- Chapter 7: Lebanon Can’t Give Him a Future: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Syrian Rebel-Workers in Beirut.- Part III: The Politics of the Syrian conflict.- Chapter 8: Syria in the ‘Resistance Front’: Persistence through Reconfiguration?.- Part IV: Sectoral Analysis.- Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Public Health in Syria: Some Global and regional Considerations.- Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Thermidor in Syria: National and International Dimensions.- Chapter 11: Syria’s Food Security: From Self-Sufficiency to Hunger as a Weapon.- Chapter 12: Conclusion: China’s role in Syria’s National Security.

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Book SynopsisThe field of peacemaking is in turbulent change. There are more peacemaking actors than before but fewer success stories, and an increasing number of violent conflicts tend to resist negotiated agreements. Tools and practices created for traditional inter- and intra-state conflicts have become ineffective and revision of old mediation practices is called for. This book examines how the private peacemaking organisations have faced this challenge. In the 21st century, private peacemakers have become a central part of peace diplomacy and have appeared as flexible actors whose innovative thinking paves the way for reconsidering and reinventing old practices of mediation. Instead of emphasizing the act of resolution, a new emphasis is given to the transformation of violence into a peace system, the complexity of conflict and the inadequateness of rational management. Furthermore, this shift has brought civic society actors from the field of reconciliation to the field of peace mediation. This new pragmatic approach under development can be called dialogic mediation.Table of ContentsIntroductionPART A: Peace Mediation beyond Mediation1: Resilient (Peace) Mediation Practice 2: Private Peacemaking3: Cold War Experiences of Nongovernmental Conciliation4: From Management of Incompatibles to Transformation of Antagonism5: Mediation Success in the Frame of Liberal Peace Critic6: Dialogic TransformationPART B: The Crowded Field of Private Peacemaking1: Professionalization of Private Peacemaking Sector2: Smart Actors within Complexity of Multitrack Peace Diplomacy3: The Finnish Way: Cooperative Interaction between Official and Private4: Towards Locally Owned Inclusive Peace Processes5: Inclusivity in Mediation and National Dialogues6: “Hitting Moving Targets”: Transformative Dialogues7: Post-Management Approach: Dialogic PracticeThe Dialogic Mediation: the Pragmatic Approach

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Book Synopsis“Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.” (Professor Timothy White, Xavier University, USA)“Paul Dixon has produced an impressive and challenging book. Dixon defends the Northern Ireland peace process as a carefully-crafted, drawn-out episode in realist, pragmatic politics. However, he pulls few punches in highlighting the moral deceptions which have kept the process in play. Provocatively, Dixon also challenges a wide range of academic interpretations of the processes and their associated political prescriptions. Thoughtful and well-researched throughout, Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process is an essential read for anyone interested in conflict management.” (Professor Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool)“In this outstanding book, Dixon shows yet again the importance of the theatrical metaphor for Northern Ireland. More importantly still, he demonstrates that the adoption of a critically realist outlook actually enhances our capacity to think creatively about the political choices we face in international politics and the alternative policies and institutions we might construct.” (Professor Adrian Little, The University of Melbourne)This book is exceptional in defending the ‘dirty politics’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. Political actors in Britain, Ireland and the United States performed the peace process and used ‘political skills’, often including deception and hypocrisy, in order to wind down the conflict and achieve accommodation. These political skills, it is argued, are often morally justifiable even as they are popularly condemned. The Northern Ireland peace process has been highly successful in reducing violence and an accurate understanding of its politics is an important contribution to international debates about managing conflict.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION2. IN DEFENCE OF ‘REAL’ POLITICS3. POLITICS AS THEATRE4. ‘A TRAGEDY BEYOND WORDS’: INTERPRETING BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS NORTHERN IRELAND5. WERE THE IRA DEFEATED?6. THEATRICAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL SKILLS7. THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, ‘DIRTY POLITICS’ AND THE BELFAST AGREEMENT8. DEFENDING THE POLITICAL MORALITY OF THE PEACE PROCESS9. ‘PEACE WITHIN THE REALMS OF THE POSSIBLE?’ DAVID TRIMBLE, UNIONIST IDEOLOGY AND THEATRICAL POLITICS10. ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE 11. CONCLUSION: INTERPRETING THE PEACE PROCESS AND THE FUTURE OF NORTHERN IRELAND

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Book SynopsisThis book applies cutting-edge methods from cognitive and evolutionary theories to develop models of conflict between hierarchically-structured cognitive entities under circumstances of imprecision, uncertainty and stress. Characterized as friction and the fog-of-war by the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, such conditions impair institutional cognition in real-time conflict and pose a real and continuing threat to organizations, such as the US military. In a linked collection of formal essays and a mathematical appendix, the book explores different aspects of cognitive and evolutionary process as conducted under the direction of doctrine that acts as a kind of genome for retention of what is learned through Lamarckian evolutionary selection pressures: armies and corporate entities learn from conflict, and incorporate that learning into their ongoing procedures. The book proposes models and policy solutions for strategic competence. A central feature of the book is a formal description of the famous OODA loop of the US military theorist John Boyd in terms of the Data Rate Theorem that links control and information theories. That description is expanded to cover more fully the impact of stochastic fog-of-war effects on tactical and operational scales of conflict. Subsequent chapters examine in more detail the role of doctrine, and the particular effect of embedding culture on cognitive and Lamarckian evolutionary processes associated with conflict on tactical, operational, and strategic scales and levels of organization. A scientifically sophisticated exercise in applied mathematics, history, evolutionary theory, and ecosystem theory, this book will be appropriate for researchers and students interested in defense, security, and international relations, as well as non-academic career professionals in government and industry.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Contrasting tactical and strategic dynamics.- Chapter 2. Doctrine and the fog-of-war.- Chapter 3. On asymmetric conflict.- Chapter 4. The Albigensian ground state.- Chapter 5. Can there be ‘Third Stream’ doctrine?- Chapter 6. Reconsidering doctrine and its discontents.- Chapter 7. Challenges to the US security doctrine of ‘Resilience’.- Chapter 8. Culture and the induction of emotional dysfunction on a Clausewitz landscape.- Chapter 9. Expected unexpecteds: Cambrian explosions in Lamarckian systems.- Chapter 10. Reconsidering Clausewitz Landscape dynamics.- Chapter 11. Failure of a paramilitary system: a case history of catastrophe.- Chapter 12. An emerging catastrophe: The weaponization of emotional sentience in AI.- Chapter 13. Final Remarks.- Chapter 14. Mathematical Appendix.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the challenges foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq pose to Western countries. A number of returnees have demonstrated that they are willing to use violence against their home countries, and some have already staged terrorist attacks on Western soil on apparent orders from ISIS. Through the historical context of previous waves of mobilizations of Islamist foreign fighters, the author tracks the experiences of returnees from previous conflicts and discusses the major security challenges associated with them. The book analyzes the major approaches implemented by Western countries in response to foreign fighter returnees, discusses the prosecution of returnees, and evaluates the corresponding challenges of prison radicalization.Trade Review“Pokalova’s book is an important quest to understand a form of terrorism that still poses perils to the West and should not be taken lightly.” (C. C. Lovett, Choice, Vol. 58 (1), September, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1The Returnee ChallengeChapter 2Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Aberration from History or History Repeated?Chapter 3Foreign Fighters After the Conflict EndsChapter 4Foreign Fighter Returnees from Syria and IraqChapter 5Dealing with the Challenge: Responses to Foreign Fighters and Foreign Fighter ReturneesChapter 6Prosecution of Foreign Fighter ReturneesChapter 7Women, Jihad, and Female ReturneesChapter 8Child ReturneesChapter 9Moving Forward

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