Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In the year we celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the PhD programme in International Politics and Conflict Resolution, this book gathers contributions from the first nine PhDs who successfully completed their studies. The chapters now published are a synthesis of the doctoral theses defended within the context of the PhD programme, noting the patrimony of reflection that has been built, and which since the very beginning has been widening and deepening in thematic and methodological terms. Through these nine studies, we share with the readers’ community a reading of the world that has at its core the building of a multidimensional peace and that expresses the paths taken by this laboratory of debate and reflection that is this PhD programme. Expressing the plurality of approaches that the PhD embraces, these chapters adopt diverse angles regarding approaches to this multidimensional and demanding peace in the contemporary international system.

violence:conflict resolution|transformation --- international politics --- Peace

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis. This book interrogates what impacts—if any—this global protest cycle had on politics and policy and shows the sometimes unintended ways it continues to influence contemporary political dynamics throughout the world. Proposing a new framework of analysis that calls attention to the content and claims of protests, their global connections, and the responsiveness of political institutions to protest demands, this is one of the few books that not only asks how protest movements are formed but also provides an in-depth examination of what protest movements can accomplish. With contributions examining the political consequences of protest, the roles of social media and the internet in protest organization, left- and right-wing movements in the United States, Chile’s student movements, the Arab Uprisings, and much more this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the power of protest to shape our world.

Political ideologies --- Economic history --- Peace studies & conflict resolution --- Social classes --- Protest --- Democracy --- Political Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Offers a new framework of understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones, and the programmes aimed at managing them."--Page 4 of cover.

Peace-building --- Conflict management --- Economic aspects. --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Political Science --- political violence --- conflict zones --- peacebuilding --- conflict --- conflict resolution --- peace studies --- war economies --- policy making --- conflict-areas --- development --- security --- Kosovo --- Liberalism --- Organized crime --- Privatization --- Society and social sciences. --- Politics and government. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace. --- Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Peace studies & conflict resolution.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This Open Access book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called edutainment, social impact television, narrative persuasion, or cultural strategy, this approach to social and behavior change communication offers new opportunities including transmedia and digital formats. However, making media can be a chaotic process. The realities of working in the field and the rigid structures of scholarly evaluation often act as barriers to honest accounts of entertainment-education practice. In this collection of essays, experienced practitioners offer unique insight into how entertainment-education works and present a balanced view of its potential pitfalls. This book gives readers an opportunity to learn from the successes and mistakes of the experts, taking a behind-the-scenes look at the business of making entertainment-education media.

Media studies --- Development Communication --- Media and Communication --- Health Communication --- communication for social change --- social change communication --- edutainment --- mass media --- transmedia --- conflict resolution --- Open Access

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their personal experiences with peace and conflict, tell what drove their peace engagement, and discuss the balance sought in the field between the cold dictates from academic rigor and the hot pursuit of peace, a desire for research to make a positive difference. Most of the chapters are interviews where one colleague interviews another. Some are self-reflective essays, while others are memorial essays written about a peace researcher who has passed away. Taken together, the book presents a lively picture of a thriving world-leading research environment and a wealth of conflicting or mutually reinforcing perspectives on war, violence, conflict, conflict management and resolution, negotiations and mediation, peacemaking, peace building, and the contested concept of peace. “The Oslo Stories is an indispensable source to the history of peace research.” Dr. Olav Njølstad, Director, Nobel Institute, Oslo

International relations --- International institutions --- Terrorism, armed struggle --- Peace research --- War and violence --- Peace building --- Conflict resolution --- PRIO --- PLO --- Oslo --- Life Stories --- Stein Tønnesson --- Stein Toennesson --- Stein Tonnesson