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  • From Fear to Hope
    Pamela Leach
    This book scrutinises ‘peace’ and ‘war' through Australian lenses. It uncovers a deeper understanding of these terms and reflects a desire to bring to light alternative Australian ideas of war and peacemaking. Certain stories have eclipsed others that add importantly to Australia’s history. This Quaker initiative considers a plurality of voices and the ‘truths’ they purport...
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    27,62 €

  • La paz un largo proceso
    Alberto ROJAS PUYO
    La paz, entendida como un largo proceso, es uno de los ejes temáticos de este testimonio autobiográfico de Alberto Rojas Puyo. A comienzos de 1980, este político colombiano, que entonces militaba en el Partido Comunista Colombiano, insistió en que la resolución del conflicto armado sólo se podía pensar como un proceso y no simplemente como la reunión de las partes y la firma de...
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    17,68 €

  • Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements
    Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance. When authorities respond to strategic nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and violence, they often undercut their own legitimacy, precipitating significant reforms or even governmental overthrow. Brutal repression of a movement is often a turning point in its history:...
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    92,11 €

  • Peacekeeping in South Lebanon
    Vanessa Newby
    Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping. With empirically rich analysis, Newby...
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    85,32 €

  • Faith-Based Organizations in Transnational Peacebuilding
    Tanya B Schwarz / Tanya B. Schwarz / Tanya BSchwarz
    How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political role of such organizations informed by their religious ideas and practices? This book investigates this set of questions by examining how three transnational faith-based organizations-Religions for Peace, the Taizé Community, and Inter...
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    163,72 €

  • Faith-Based Organizations in Transnational Peacebuilding
    Tanya B Schwarz / Tanya B. Schwarz / Tanya BSchwarz
    How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political role of such organizations informed by their religious ideas and practices? This book investigates this set of questions by examining how three transnational faith-based organizations-Religions for Peace, the Taizé Community, and Inter...
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    54,34 €

  • Diplomatic Theory
    Barry H Steiner / Barry H. Steiner / Barry HSteiner
    This book is intended as a primer for generalizing on a case-comparison basis about diplomatic statecraft, including resources and techniques available to states to attain their objectives. Twenty years in the making, it employs an inductive method in which small samples of cases occurring at different times and between different states are studied to track and understand spec...
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    113,78 €

  • Conflict Resolution in Asia
    Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models is an exploration of human interaction, conflict, and conflict resolution in the incredibly diverse region that consists of South, East, and Southeast Asia. It examines how traditional, indigenous, and culturally based conflict resolution processes interact with more formal legal systems to build infrastructures t...
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    142,77 €

  • Diplomatic Theory
    Barry H Steiner / Barry H. Steiner / Barry HSteiner
    This book is intended as a primer for generalizing on a case-comparison basis about diplomatic statecraft, including resources and techniques available to states to attain their objectives. Twenty years in the making, it employs an inductive method in which small samples of cases occurring at different times and between different states are studied to track and understand spec...
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    55,65 €

  • War, Women, and Power
    Marie E. Berry / Marie EBerry
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    120,24 €

  • Atone
    The relationship between religion and conflict has generated considerable academic and political debate. Although the majority of religions and spiritual traditions are replete with wisdom that propagates a broader unity among human beings, these same examples have been used to legitimize hatred and fear. While some studies claim that religion facilitates peacebuilding, reconci...
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    149,36 €

  • Mindanao
    Paul D Hutchcroft
     Across more than four decades, the conflict between the national government and Muslim liberation forces in the southern Philippines has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. Two landmark agreements under the presidency of Benigno S Aquino III — the first in 2012 and the second in 2014 — raised high hopes that peace might finally be on the way. But the peace process...
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    169,53 €

  • Engaging Adversaries
    Mel Gurtov
    This groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, mutually productive relations. Writing with authority and clarity, Mel Gurtov defines the strategy of deep engagement, examines how it progressed under President Obama with Cuba and Iran, and probes its potential for US-Russian and U...
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    107,18 €

  • Engaging Adversaries
    Mel Gurtov
    This groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, mutually productive relations. Writing with authority and clarity, Mel Gurtov defines the strategy of deep engagement, examines how it progressed under President Obama with Cuba and Iran, and probes its potential for US-Russian and U...
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    47,66 €

  • Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia
    The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed ’global models’, often assuming that patterns of state failure are due to resistance to the liberal model...
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    163,36 €

  • Making Peace with Faith
    Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities. Every faith tradition offers resources for peace, and secular policy makers are more and more acknowledging the influence of faith-based actors, even though there remains a tendency to associate relig...
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    106,90 €

  • Making Peace with Faith
    Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities. Every faith tradition offers resources for peace, and secular policy makers are more and more acknowledging the influence of faith-based actors, even though there remains a tendency to associate relig...
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    54,31 €

  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited
    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does 'victory' mean in contemporary conflict? In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post-Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of...
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    49,76 €

  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited
    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does 'victory' mean in contemporary conflict? In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post-Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of...
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    150,78 €

  • Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia
    The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed ’global models’, often assuming that patterns of state failure are due to resistance to the liberal model...
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    53,99 €

  • Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War
    Many regions of the world whose histories include war and violent conflict have or once had strong ties to Orthodox Christianity. Yet policy makers, religious leaders, and scholars often neglect Orthodoxy’s resources when they reflect on the challenges of war. Through essays written by prominent Orthodox scholars in the fields of biblical studies, church history, Byzantine stud...
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    60,20 €

  • Yogic Peace Education
    Janine M. Joyce / Katerina Standish
    This introduction to peace education and yogic science provides a good toolkit to help bring contemplative peacebuilding (efforts to stop harm) practices to the classroom and community center. The latest research is presented alongside personal reflections of teachers and facilitators who have used these methods for instructing students or participants on facing the hectic real...
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    42,98 €

  • Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
    Pádraig Ó Tuama
    Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community draws on the spiritual practices of Northern Ireland's longest established peace and reconciliation organisation. For over fifty years, it has been bringing fractured communities together and resourcing others in the work of healing conflict.At the heart of its life is a simple pattern of daily worship. This prayer book captures th...
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    20,13 €

  • Solution or Stalemate?
    Baturay Yurtbay
    The Kurdish question started to be discussed especially after the establishment of Republic of Turkey in year 1923. This problem has many different aspects, as well as sociological and political problems. PKK, the terrorist organization, constitutes another dimension of this problem.The peace process for the sustainable peace regarding with the Kurdish question and PKK took pla...
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    33,28 €

  • Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
    Violent behavior has become deeply integrated into modern society and it is an unavoidable aspect of human nature. Examining peacemaking strategies through a critical and academic perspective can assist in resolving violence in societies around the world. The Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source for the latest res...
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    386,97 €

  • Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
    Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
    The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, ...
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    62,89 €

  • Peace Camping
    Michael H. M. Waugh
    This is a history of peace camping and peaceful anti-war protests in the mid to late twentieth century in the United Kingdom. It includes many short-lived camps as well as those that took place for a longer period such as Greenham Common. ...
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    23,29 €

  • Steel Gate to Freedom
    Yu Jie / HC Hsu
    On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background.This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biography by renowned C...
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    34,94 €

  • How Mass Atrocities End
    Bridget Conley-Zilkic
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    39,46 €

  • Peaceful Selves
    Laura Eramian
    This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around "good" personhood, and from both...
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    184,50 €