Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It

ISBN-13: 9780190680138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Christian Davenport; Eric Melander; Patrick Regan

Opis

The idea of studying peace - over studying war, genocide and political violence and then inferring about peace - has gained traction recently, but how should it be studied? The Peace Continuum reviews the literature and offers three alternative ways in which peace could be conceptualized and studied.

O autorze

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan as well as Global Fellow and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Erik Melander is a Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests concern gender, masculinities, armed conflict, and peace. His articles have been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict resolution, Journal of Gender Studies, and Journal of Peace Research. He has experience from field-work in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and the Yugoslav Federation. Patrick M. Regan is a professor of political science and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He researches the impact of climate change and social adaptation on armed conflict. His most recent book, The Politics of Global Climate Change (Paradigm, 2015), articulates a multi-level political process for influencing climate change legislation, beginning with local politics.