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Handbook of peace and conflict studies

Charles P. Webel ; Johan Galtung

Buch

englisch

Galtung, Johan (Ed.) DNB
Webel, Charles P. (Ed.) DNB

1. publ. in paperback

Routledge

London [u.a.]

2009

XV, 406 p.

978-0-415-48319-3

Includes bibliographical references and index

peace research
peace studies
conflict management
peacebuilding
conflict transformation

Summary
Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
by Webel, Charles (Editor); Galtung, Johan (Editor)


Terms of use

The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially since their initiation in Scandinavia about a half century ago by Johan Galtung. They have forged a transdisciplinary and professional identity distinct from security studies, political science, and International Relations.The Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies offers a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The volume is divided into four sections, commencing with "Understanding and Transforming Conflict", moving sequentially through "Creating Peace" and "Supporting Peace", and culminating with "Peace Across the Disciplines". Each section features new essays by distinguished international scholars and/or professionals working in peace studies and conflict resolution and transformation. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and political positions, the editors and contributors offer topical and enduring approaches to peace and conflict studies.This book will be essential reading for students of peace studies, conflict studies and conflict resolution. It will also be of interest and use to practitioners in conflict resolution and NGOs, as well as policymakers and diplomats.Charles Webel is currently Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies. During 2005, he was Director of the Centre of Peace Studies and a professor of social science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He is the author of Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition (2005) and co-author with David P. Barash of Peace and Conflict Studies (2002).Johan Galtung is widely acknowledged as the founder of peace studies and peace research. He has published extensively in these fields. He is currently co-director of TRANSCEND, a global network of peace scholars and conflict transformers.

Table of Contents

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Introduction
1 Toward a Philosophy and Metapsychology of Peace
2 Peace by Peaceful Conflict Transformation: The Transcend Approach
Part 1Understanding and Transforming Conflict
3 Negotiation
4 Mediation
5 Former Yugoslavia and Iraq: A Comparative Analysis of International Conflict Mismanagement
6 Peace Studies and Peace Politics: Multicultural Common Security in North-South Conflict Situations
7 Disarmament
8 Nuclear Disarmament
Part 2Creating Peace
9 Peace and Conflict Counseling and Training: The Transcend Approach
10 Nonviolence - More Than the Absence of Violence
11 Human Rights / Peace Processes
12 Reconciliation
13 Peace as a Self-Regulating Process
Part 3Supporting Peace
14 Gender and Peace: Towards a Gender-Inclusive Holistic Perspective
15 Peace Business
16 Peace Journalism
17 Peace Psychology: Theory and Practice
18 Rethinking Peace Education
Part 4Peace Across the Disciplines
19 Peace Studies as a Transdisciplinary Project
20 The Spirit of War and the Spirit of Peace: Understanding the Role of Religion
21 International Law: Amid Power, Order and Justice
22 The Language Game of Peace
23 Peace and the Arts
24 Peace through Health?
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