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Peacebuilding.
ISSN: 21647267 21647259 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abingdon, UK : Routledge, Taylor & Francis,

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The brilliant art of peace : lectures from the Kofi Annan series
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ISBN: 9781601271426 1601271425 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, DC United States Institute of Peace Press

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Kofi Annan, the United Nation's seventh secretary-general, recognized that engaging broader constituencies was critical to fulfilling the organization's mission. As part of this initiative, he established a public lecture series on cutting-edge topics in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. The Brilliant Art of Peace presents these lectures, delivered by seventeen of the world's most eminent thinkers, including several Nobel laureates. The reader will find humor, moral rigor, and wit in this thought-provoking and timeless collection. A must have for any reader interested in the human condition.


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Routledge handbook of peacebuilding.
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ISBN: 9780415690195 9780203068175 9781135082130 9781135082086 9781135082123 9781138922709 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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"This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term 'peacebuilding', and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term 'peacebuilding' has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as 'conflict resolution' have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term 'peacebuilding' has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediation, reconciliation and strategies to induce peace. Despite this, however, it is rarely defined and often used to mean different things to different audiences. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding aims to be a one-stop comprehensive resource on the literature and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. The book is organised into six key sections: - Section 1: Reading peacebuilding - Section 2: Approaches and cross-cutting themes - Section 3: Disciplinary approaches to peacebuilding - Section 4: Violence and security - Section 5: Everyday living and peacebuilding - Section 6: The infrastructure of peacebuilding This new Handbook will be essential reading for students of peacebuilding, mediation and post-conflict reconstruction, and of great interest to students of statebuilding, intervention, civil wars, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies and IR in general"--


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The sleep of Behemoth : disputing peace and violence in medieval Europe, 1000 - 1200
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ISBN: 9780801451324 0801451329 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell university press


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Global challenges : peace and war
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ISBN: 9004246932 9789004246935 9789004253261 9004253262 1299735975 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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What is the idea of ‘peace’? Is peace merely the absence of war, or can it also mean something else? Is peace a condition of emancipation, the status quo, or is it a system of hegemonic stability? How can peace be acquired whatever it may mean? And above all, what is the relationship between peace and war? This textbook aims to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to studies of peace and war, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Rather than providing students the answer of what the idea of peace means, this volume is designed to make and assist students to contemplate how peace can be thought by investigating its opposite: ‘war’, broadly defined.


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Conflict & security in Africa
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ISBN: 1847010784 1782041648 1299875068 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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More than any other part of the globe, Africa has become associated with conflict, insecurity and human rights atrocities. In the popular imagination and the media, overpopulation, environmental degradation and ethnic hatred dominate accounts of African violence, while in academic and policy-making circles, conflict and insecurity have also come to occupy centre stage, with resource-hungry warlords and notions of 'greed' and 'grievance' playing key explanatory roles. Since the attacks of 9/11, there has also been mounting concern that the continent's so-called 'ungoverned spaces' will provide safe havens for terrorists intent on destroying Western civilization. The Review of African Political Economy has engaged extensively with issues of conflict and security, both analysing on-going conflicts and often challenging predominant modes of explanation and interpretation. This Review of African Political Economy Reader provides a timely, comprehensive and critical contribution to contemporary debates about conflict and security on the continent. The first section, covers some of the continent's main post-Cold War conflicts and demonstrates their global connections. The articles also discuss the so-called 'resource curse', as well as the global arms trade, and reveal the complexities of the relationship between the economic and the political. The second section focuses on security as part of post-Cold War global governance, and discusses the effects of liberal peace-building as well as the link between development assistance and the 'war on terror'. The final section examines life as it continues in conditions of war and shows how insecurity reconfigures urban space, transforms social order, identities and authority. Rita Abrahamsen is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada . Published in association with ROAPE. ROAPE African Readers. Series Editors: Tunde Zack-Williams & Ray Bush


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Des chrétiens contre les croisades (XIIe-XIIIe siècles).
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ISBN: 9782213668161 2213668167 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris Fayard

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Au terme d'une enquête minutieuse à travers les archives et les chroniques médiévales, l'auteur réhabilite les grandes consciences qui, face aux Croisades, ont plaidé pour la tolérance, ainsi qu'un humanisme ancré dans la foi. Il rompt avec l'image des pèlerins armés partis conquérir les lieux saints et rétablir la foi chrétienne dans des provinces dissidentes.

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Cooperation for a peaceful and sustainable world
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ISBN: 1781906564 1781906556 9781781906569 9781781906552 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald,

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Part 2 of the Cooperation for a peaceful and sustainable world volume, brings together some of the leading researchers on peace science. Chapters discuss issues including, but not restricted to, military expenditure and economics in China, India and Pakistan, Peace science in South East Asia, and approaches to anti-terrorism.


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Johan Galtung : Pioneer of Peace Research
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ISBN: 9783642324802 3642324800 3642324819 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This is the first ever anthology of key articles by Johan Galtung, widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. It covers such concepts as direct, structural and cultural violence; theories of conflict, development, civilization and peace; peaceful conflict transformation; peace education; mediation; reconciliation; a life-sustaining economy; macro-history; deep culture and deep structure; and social science methodology. Galtung has contributed original research, concepts and theories to more than 20 social science disciplines, including sociology, international relations and future studies, and has also applied his new insights in practice. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners, and can serve as a supplemental textbook for graduate and upper undergraduate courses in peace studies and related fields.


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War, peace, and human nature
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ISBN: 0199859000 0199332681 9780199859009 9780199332687 9780199858996 0199858993 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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In this volume, editor Doug Fry brings together leading experts in human behavioural ecology, and evolutionary biology archeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about conflict and human nature in an evolutionary context.

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