Peace Studies

The book offers a critical analysis of legitimacy in peacebuilding, with a focus on peace negotiations and civil society participation in particular. The aim of this book is to unpack the meaning of legitimacy for the population in peacebuilding processes and the relationship this has with civil soc..

This book provides compelling empirical data showing that the people in whose name we build peace, often don’t want the kind of peace we build. In place of elections and markets, the evidence suggests that the ‘subjects’ of peacebuilding may well prefer to prioritize roads, jobs, housing, school and..

This volume searches for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to hamper peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society, with a singular focus on the role of legitimacy in peacebuilding...

This book examines the use of third-party mediation in conflict resolution, and uses a rational method to analyse two case studies of long-term international conflicts...

Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field._x005F_x000D_  ..

Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field._x000D_  ..

This book introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a concept that seeks to undertake a sustainable critique and construct a framework for analysing peacebuilding practices in a long-term perspective...

This book introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a concept that seeks to undertake a sustainable critique and construct a framework for analysing peacebuilding practices in a long-term perspective...

This book examines the concept of peace leadership, bringing together scholars and practitioners both from peace and conflict studies and from leadership studies...

The book examines how ex-combatants in post-war and peacebuilding settings engage in politics, as seen in the case of Liberia...

This book asks how, and under what conditions, external-domestic interactions impact on peacebuilding outcomes during transitions to peace and democracy, with a focus on the case of Kosovo...

This book offers the first detailed examination of the effectiveness of the peacekeeping operations of the African Union. ..