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Addressing Ethnic Conflict through Peace Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of peace educational labour. A strong emphasis is given to integrative and sustained long-term peace education efforts. more...
Ethnic Conflict and International Politics
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 36.00Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state... more...
Political Ethics and The United Nations
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, and including previously unpublished material, this book explores the foundations of the political ethics of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, examining how they influenced his actions in several key crisis situations. Hammarskjöld?s political innovations, such... more...
War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Study of the making and breaking of peace treaties and truces from Classical Greece to the High Middle Ages. more...
Women and Nation-Building
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95This study examines gender-specific impacts of conflict and post-conflict and the ways in which events in these contexts may affect women differently than they affect men. It analyzes the roles of women in the nation-building process and considers outcomes that might occur if current practices were modified. The recent nation-building activities in... more...
The Contemporary US Peace Movement
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 113.00As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement. This study offers an analysis of self-identified peace activists in terms of their demographic characteristics, motivation for activism, political opportunities,... more...
Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 148.00This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation. Mission... more...
Peace First
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008; US$ 27.95In this groundbreaking new guide to building peace, international ambassador Uri Savir exposes the deadly ironies and anachronisms in contemporary efforts to solve global conflicts, and they present a radical new model for modernizing our efforts to build real and lasting peace, from the ground up. more...
Understanding the Middle East Peace Process
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 145.00Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on interviews with key protagonists, this book gives a detailed analysis... more...
Beyond War
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 16.99The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly... more...









