This volume comprises essays on peace research by one of the leading scholars in the field. It focuses on finding ways to understand and identify conflicts and undertake conflict resolution, practicing conflict resolution through academic diplomacy and looking for peaceful alternatives to war.

This volume brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.

This text examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.

This study explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups participate in post-war security and political governance.

This text discusses the role of time in peace negotiations and peace processes, making reference to real-world negotiations and using comparative data.

This volume analyzes the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.

This volume presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. The edited text contains policy-relevant knowledge about effective peacebuilding strategies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the contemporary peace processes in the Middle East and the Western Balkans.

Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict. The drive to establish a sustainable liberal peace largely escapes critical examination. When such attention is paid to peacebuilding practices, scholars tend to concentrate either on the military components of the mission or on the liberal economic reforms. This means that the roles of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the impact of attempting to...

This edited volume examines basic human needs theory and interactive problem-solving, looking at recent developments in thinking about both and how these might affect peacebuilding in contemporary conflicts of the 21st century.