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  • Marketing Peace for Social Transformation and Global Prosperity
    War and conflict continually plague many nations around the world and have led to mass causalities, a shortage of resources, and political turmoil. To eradicate this ongoing issue, individuals, companies, and governments need to establish a fundamental change in the distribution of the world’s assets, resources, and ideals. Marketing Peace for Social Transformation and Global P...
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    255,85 €

  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes
    Brouneus Karen / Karen Brounéus
    After war, does truth telling lead to more peaceful attitudes between former enemies? 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, one of the least known or studied TRC processes in the world, and using surveys, focus groups and in dep...
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    164,11 €

  • Institutional Innovation and the Steering of Conflicts in Latin America
    This book opens the institutional Pandora’s box of conflict management, focusing on two central questions: To what degree do Latin American political contexts create spaces for institutional designs that deal with conflicts in a feasible and legitimate way? How can institutional architects exploit such spaces to manage conflict innovatively? The authors’ point of departure is t...
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    57,43 €

  • Wartime Sexual Violence against Men
    Élise Féron / Feron Elise
    Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this growing empirical evidence, there is still a dearth of analyses on this type of violence, which stands in stark contrast with the abundant literature dealing with sexual violence against women. Based on a fieldwork conducted primarily in...
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    163,81 €

  • Wartime Sexual Violence against Men
    Élise Féron / Feron Elise
    Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this growing empirical evidence, there is still a dearth of analyses on this type of violence, which stands in stark contrast with the abundant literature dealing with sexual violence against women. Based on a fieldwork conducted primarily in...
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    54,43 €

  • The Social Order of Postconflict Transformation in Cambodia
    Daniel Bultmann
    Drawing on data from three different insurgent groups within the Cambodian conflict, the book shows how the social backgrounds of combatants and commanders cause them to pursue different strategies during a decade-long transition into various postconflict settings, thereby creating different 'pathways to peace.' By highlighting different vertical and horizontal ranks within the...
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    122,45 €

  • Transforming Conflict through Communication in Personal, Family, and Working Relationships
    Peter Kellet
    A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and ...
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    62,98 €

  • Creating the Third Force
    Hamdesa Tuso
    The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal rituals. Neither did indigenous forms of peacemaking fit the conception of mod...
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    73,34 €

  • Champions for Peace
    Judith Hicks Stiehm
    Only seventeen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. Hailing from all over the world, some of these women have held graduate degrees, while others barely had access to education. Some began their work young, some late in life. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women’s varied lives in fascinating detail. The third editio...
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    128,84 €

  • Champions for Peace
    Judith Hicks Stiehm
    Only seventeen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. Hailing from all over the world, some of these women have held graduate degrees, while others barely had access to education. Some began their work young, some late in life. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women’s varied lives in fascinating detail. The third editio...
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    47,18 €

  • Reconciliation in Global Context
    Björn Krondorfer
    When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent, perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit of reconciliation and for the need of global conversations around this topic....
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    127,08 €

  • Decolonising Intervention
    Meera Sabaratnam
    Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ’expertise’. This book challenges and enhances standard ’critical’ narratives of statebuilding by exploring the historical experiences and interpretive frame...
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    54,56 €

  • To End All Wars
    'To End All Wars' was a phrase applied hopefully during 'The Great War'. Its various permutations were meant to suggest that this one might be the last war of all. How quickly the phrase became ironic. How many wars have followed! The words 'to end all wars' must remind us today that all armed conflict is a vast social catastrophe. The centenary of the W...
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    20,13 €

  • May I Kill?
    Jeffrey K. Mann / Jeffrey KMann
    Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history. However, we also know that violence can come knocking on our door at any moment. Preparing for this possibility means more than physical safety; it means being clear with ourselves about the ethics of violence. Can violence be justified? When should we fight? How should we fight? ...
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    22,80 €

  • May I Kill?
    Jeffrey K. Mann / Jeffrey KMann
    Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history. However, we also know that violence can come knocking on our door at any moment. Preparing for this possibility means more than physical safety; it means being clear with ourselves about the ethics of violence. Can violence be justified? When should we fight? How should we fight? ...
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    41,13 €

  • Contemporary Issues in Mediation
     Is it possible for mediation to strengthen the effectiveness of international commercial arbitration?What is the role of mediation in the pursuit of restorative justice?How successful is international peace mediation, and in particular, the efforts of the African Union?These groundbreaking discussions, and more, have been carefully selected for publication in Contemporary Issu...
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    81,36 €

  • Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, and Storytelling
    This book serves as an important link between conflict resolution practice and education by providing research from the unique perspective and approach of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, one of the world’s leading academic programs for PACS research: storytelling, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. Each chapter presents original research in critical ...
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    163,33 €

  • Predicting Hotspots
    Atin Basuchoudhary / James Bang / James T. Bang / James TBang / Tinni Sen
    This book should be useful to anyone interested in identifying the causes of civil conflict and doing something to end it. It even suggests a pathway for the lay reader. Civil conflict is a persistent source of misery to humankind. Its study, however, lacks a comprehensive theory of its causes. Nevertheless, the question of cooperation or conflict is at the heart of political e...
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    122,46 €

  • War, Women, and Power
    Marie E. Berry / Marie EBerry
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    41,86 €

  • The World at Peace
    Richard Milligan
    WORLD PEACE: Though it means different things to different people, it is a concept that man has strived for since history began. The WORLD AT PEACE in the not so distant future attempts to answer such questions as… What is peace? How is it defined? And most importantly, how is it obtained? By examining different political and religious philosophies through history, scienc...
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    11,96 €

  • Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts
    Academic disciplines perceive tranquility and a sense of contentment differently among themselves and therefore contribute to peace-building initiatives differently. Peace is not merely a function of education or a tool that produces amicable systems, but rather a concept that educational contributions can help societies progress to a more peaceful existence. The Handbook of Re...
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    361,24 €

  • The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding
    The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding assesses the peacebuilding implications and societal impact of the Hizmet Movement, characterized as a pacifist and inclusive expression of Islam. With a range of both supporters and critics, the studies of the Hizmet Movement presented in these cases provide a counter to negative stereotypes with examples of positive educational institutio...
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    162,86 €

  • South Africa and United Nations Peacekeeping Offensive Operations
    Antonio Garcia
    The creation of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) as the sharp tactical edge of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), tasked with the neutralising of armed groups, was a watershed moment in the history of modern peace missions. What was more significant was that sub-Saharan national leaders were instrumental in the creati...
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    36,12 €

  • Homeland Security Cultures
    Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience explores the role that culture plays in the study and practice of homeland security in an all-hazards, whole-community, and all-of-government scope. It does so by analyzing and discussing strategic, organizational, operational, and social cultures in the U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise, as well as from an...
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    169,94 €

  • Understanding the imaginary war
    Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. ...
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    36,62 €

  • Homeland Security Cultures
    Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience explores the role that culture plays in the study and practice of homeland security in an all-hazards, whole-community, and all-of-government scope. It does so by analyzing and discussing strategic, organizational, operational, and social cultures in the U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise, as well as from an...
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    56,43 €

  • The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering
    Sharon Mehdi
    In the early 1980s, near Mount Shasta, California, author Sharon Mehdi met a beloved Karuk medicine man named Charlie Red Hawk Thom.  Charlie said he was going to tell her something she must promise not ever to forget: “Men have taken the world as far as they can.  It’s up to the women to take us the rest of the way.”In 2004, when the world was askew and getting askewer every d...
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    7,21 €

  • Pathological Counterinsurgency
    Samuel R Greene / Samuel R. Greene / Samuel RGreene
    Pathological Counterinsurgency critically examines the relationship between elections and counterinsurgency success in third party campaigns supported by the United States. From Vietnam to El Salvador to Iraq and Afghanistan, many policymakers and academics believed that democratization would drive increased legitimacy and improved performance in governments waging a counterins...
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    129,20 €

  • Leviathan
    Thomas Hobbes
    Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of 'Leviathan', a political treatise written by Thomas Hobbes in 1651. Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher known for establishing the social contract theory through this text, which legitimises the need for state authority governing the individual in society. However, Hobbes is also acknowledged for his contributio...
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    33,68 €

  • Gandhi and the World
    The book revisits Gandhi in this era of turbulence. As rigidly held notions and practices fall to pieces, and as mechanisms of violence and politicking fail, Gandhi comes to picture. If Gandhi could change the course of history, there must be elements in his thought and action, which need re-examination for the benefit of human society. This collection of essays seeks to addres...
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    122,34 €


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