Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the "People's War," Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal one. The present volume,…
"Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism presents thirty-six case studies featuring third-party peacemakers found within Jewish rabbinic literature. Each case study is explored through three layers of analysis: text, theory, and practice. The textual analysis consists of close litera…
What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty! "A fascinating book ... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"ƯƯKay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls…
The Disease to Please gives clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery from a malady that sounds harmless, but can actually have serious and destructive consequences. You will embark on a 21-day Action Plan for Curing the Disease to Please. In the step-…
The everyday, circuitry, and scalability -- Sociality, reciprocity and reciprocity -- Power -- Parley, truce and ceasefire -- Everyday peace on the battlefield -- Gender and everyday peace -- Conflict disruption. In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peac…
"This book explores the conditions under which the institution of war could be brought to an end. It draws on an extensive program of research into the phenomenon of socially sanctioned violence and focuses on the role of moral beliefs. This book explores social change and the g…
"Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security. The book highlights the complex interaction between the regional and sub-regional organizations, on the one hand, and their relations with the United N…
"Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security. The book highlights the complex interaction between the regional and sub-regional organizations, on the one hand, and their relations with the United N…
The first book-length study of the causes, events and consequences of South Sudan's brutal civil war and the devastating effects of the US-led peace process. "A mere two years after achieving independence, South Sudan in 2013 descended into violent civil war, refuting US governm…