Peace Studies

This book charts the emergence and historical progression of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model from its infancy at the end of the Cold War up to 2014, with a special focus on the case of Afghanistan...

This book charts the emergence and historical progression of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model from its infancy at the end of the Cold War up to 2014, with a special focus on the case of Afghanistan...

This book introduces new conceptual tools for studying local agency and international-local dynamics in post-conflict statebuilding...

This book examines and compares the diverging security approaches of the UK, China and India in peacebuilding settings, with a specific focus on the case of Nepal...

This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect support of the establishment of this service in both theory and practice...

This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect support of the establishment of this service in both theory and practice...

This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture during its first decade in existence...

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work...

This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ‘quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies...

This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ‘quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies...

US enthusiasm for peace operations has fluctuated markedly in the post-Cold War era. This book considers current US peace operations policy from the perspective of fifteen years of fluctuating commitment...

This book sheds new light on the important but diverse roles of women in the decade-long civil war in Nepal (1996-2006), and the equally long post-conflict reconstruction period (2006-16)...