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Offers a comparative study based on original readings of the peace agreements and of first-hand and academic accounts of the peacebuilding processes and post-conflict politics, up to the present period.

This book examines the roots of human security, connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war and peacetime.

This book is the first to study the over-time effect of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process on people's attitudes towards peace. Focusing on the Solomon Islands TRC process.

Research links a wide and diverse community of scholars, practitioners, and activists towards the common goal of building peace in the United States and play a key role in helping define (and create) the field of "peacebuilding in the US."

Brings together leading scholars from across the globe to reflect on violence, conflict and peace in the USA.

This book is an in-depth reflection and analysis on why and how unsettling empathy is a crucial component in reconciliatory processes.

Drawing on the voices and experiences of community-based peace leaders around the world, this book envisions a new way of working together as a truly local and global peacebuilding field.

This manual includes all the resources needed to teach and train mediators in the skills of conflict resolution. It explains the conceptual framework of conflict and peacemaking, the steps of the mediation process, and the resources necessary to conduct mediation sessions, including practice through role-playing.

This book provides guidance for structuring ethical reflection as well as analytical tools to get to the heart of issues quickly. Examples, scenarios, and discussion questions help draw out key issues to improve peacebuilding practices. It will help identify and analyze ethical problems and resolve moral value conflicts to create healthy practices.

This book uses Indonesia's, the Philippines' and Thailand's struggles with secessionist groups as case studies. Each begins with a history of the insurgency, an analysis of the insurgent group's organization, operations, tactics, and capabilities then delves into the history of the peace processes and analyzes the factors that made them successful.

When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security represented a significant first step in understanding that security dilemmas could no longer be seen as purely geopolitical phenomena that revolve around the nation-state. This book explains the progress made toward human security since then and the steps that remain to be taken.

Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking.

This study investigates how human security manifests itself in the context of Afghanistan and explores the factors that promote and impede its development.

This book offers narrative analysis theory as a vehicle to understand indigenous mediation.

Offers useful theory building process tracing the narrative turn to strategic choice both methodological and theoretical innovations.

In this landmark collection, the voices of pathMakers and innovators in peacebuilding evaluation are assembled to provide new direction for the field.

In this landmark collection, the voices of pathMakers and innovators in peacebuilding evaluation are assembled to provide new direction for the field.

This introductory course text explores the genealogy of the field of conflict resolution by examining three different epochs of the field, each one tied to the historical context and events of the day.

This introductory course text explores the genealogy of the field of conflict resolution by examining three different epochs of the field, each one tied to the historical context and events of the day.

The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.

The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.

In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of.

In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of.

Criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the challenges posed by CPS along with recommendations for improving their efficacy and an enumeration of the conditions essential for their success.

Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. The book articulates a typology for assessing the threats of CPS and for implementing appropriate strategies to achieve sustainable peace.

Criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the challenges posed by CPS along with recommendations for improving their efficacy and an enumeration of the conditions essential for their success.

Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. The book articulates a typology for assessing the threats of CPS and for implementing appropriate strategies to achieve sustainable peace.

The case studies in this volume show the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems-based approaches to peacebuilding and security that involve diverse civil society groups, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and security forces.

The case studies in this volume show the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems-based approaches to peacebuilding and security that involve diverse civil society groups, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and security forces.