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Examines the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and firsthand knowledge of the region gained from multiple research visits. By shifting geographical frames-local, regional, and international-this provides a robust analysis of the stakes involved.

Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. This title includes essays that explore the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution.

On November 19, 1990, the states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe gathered in Paris to end the Cold War. How was this seemingly inevitable conflict avoided? This study looks at the shared and adopted principles that led from confrontation to democratic peace.

Offering a comprehensive history of the War Resisters League, this book explores the evolution of the organization from a single-issue pacifist registry, educational forum and political pressure group into a multi-issue organization that campaigned for international peace and social justice.

Since the early 1950s, John Paul Lederach has travelled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. He has worked with governments, justice departments, and youth programs in Latin America, the Philippines, Cambodia, Somalia, and Africa. Drawing on his experience, Lederach explains the process and key variables used in teaching conflict resolution.

Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping.

Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In this volume, Ross considers the relationship between participation in Jewish-Palestinian encounters and the long-term worldview and commitment to social change of their participants.

Offers a comprehensive account of Nigerian civil society groups in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kew blends democratic theory with conflict resolution methodologies to argue that the manner in which groups - and states - manage internal conflicts provides an important gauge as to how democratic their political cultures are.

Wanis-St. John takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a frame work, the author focuses on the uses and misuses of "back channel" negotiations.

On April 11, 1981, two neighbouring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match. When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly escalated. Drawing on interviews, council archives, and media reports, Shihade explores the incident and subsequent attack on Kafr Yassif in the context of prevailing theories of ethnic and communal conflict.

Examines the dynamics of ethnonationalism in Cyprus, a country mired in a decades-long struggle fueled by ethnic rivalry. This title presents analysis of Cyprus' historic conflict that examines the logic of nationalist thinking, assesses the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalism, and traces the division of Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Examines the dynamics of ethnonationalism in Cyprus, a country mired in a decades-long struggle fueled by ethnic rivalry. Analysing Cyprus' historic conflict, this book examines the logic of nationalist thinking, assesses the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalism, and traces the division of Greek and Turkish Cypriots since independence in 1960.

An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.

A collection of essays which explore the role of culture, race, and oppression in resolving disputes. It addresses such issues as culturally sensitive mediation practices, the diversity of perspectives in conflict resolution literature, and power dynamics.

This volume offers an in-depth account of how Macedonia held onto peace during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Faced with ethnic tensions and the threat of the Bosnian war, this republic was spared the fate of Croatia and Bosnia because of successful preventive diplomacy.

A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the ""mothers"" of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

An interpretive history of the anti-war movement in the USA throughout the entire Vietnam era. The authors portray the movement as a social force that energized people culturally yet failed to develop enduring political strength.

Argues that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.

Argues that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.

Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon.

Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon.

A memoir written at 95, by America's oldest living conscientious objector. It tells of the harsh treatment meted out to conscientious objectors during World War I, his upbringing in rural upstate New York, and the impact on his thinking by socialist leaders such as Eugene Dobs and Norman Thomas.

Drawing on archive material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the USA became associated with Communist subversion after World War II, enabling proponents of the Cold War to virtually silence the opposition until the early 1960s.

With its unique emphasis on ethnic cooperation rather than discord, this work provides insights into how the international community can help to restrain ethnic conflict in the twenty first century. By examining the construction of ethnic peace in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Patrice McMahon accurately describes how the international community worked to quell growing tensions in the East.

This volume aims to generate a theoretically informed view of the relationships between an emerging global civil society - partly manifested in transnational social movements - and international political institutions, with case studies exploring the theories.

Interactive conflict resolution is a method by which skilled and impartial parties - through facilitated dialogue and focused analysis - bring together unofficial representatives of groups or nations engaged in protracted and violent conflict. This book both describes and assesses this method.

Shows how the complex and contradictory characteristics of globalization constrain and promote the peace processes in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. This title views that a critical interrogation of the interface between economic interests and policy makers is central to an understanding of the relationship between globalization and peace.

Explains the process whereby countries become locked into long-term international conflicts, and how they can escape that conflict spiral. This book analyzes how domestic institutions and interactions among nations converge to become incentives for either war or peace.