"Indonesia has been torn by massive internal conflicts over the last decade. The absence of functioning national tools of reconciliation and the often limited success of an internationally established 'reconciliation toolkit' of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and…
Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Yet, when women enjoy good social and economic status they are less vulnerable to violence across all societies. This book develops a political econ…
This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and contestation. The book focuses on how the R2P doctrine has been both consolidated and contested along three dimensions, regarding its mea…
"Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area. The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction an…
"This book investigates the impacts of violent conflicts on resource control and sustainability. By implication, it unearths the various dimensions of violent conflicts, how they have been managed or otherwise, and how such practices and efforts contribute to resource control an…
"This book investigates the impacts of violent conflicts on resource control and sustainability. By implication, it unearths the various dimensions of violent conflicts, how they have been managed or otherwise, and how such practices and efforts contribute to resource control an…
"This book investigates the impacts of violent conflicts on resource control and sustainability. By implication, it unearths the various dimensions of violent conflicts, how they have been managed or otherwise, and how such practices and efforts contribute to resource control an…
"Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the internal politics of the Kachin and Karen rebel movements, the book analyses the hidden social dynamics and everyday practices of political violence in Myanmar's war-torn borderlands to present a perspective on one of the world's longest ru…
""The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution" demonstrates the range of themes that constitute modern conflict resolution. It brings out its key issues, methods and dilemmas through original contributions by leading scholars in a dynamic and expanding field of inquiry. This handbo…
Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war -- that is to say, war between states in whi…