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This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face.

Investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement. This book explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails.

Considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists. It focuses on the conditions which predispose - or prevent - embarkation on a truth recovery process, and the rationale for that process.

Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area.

This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its unintended impact on groups in conflict.

This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This edited volume examines Basic Human Needs theory and interactive problem solving, looking at recent developments in thinking about both and how these might affect peacebuilding in contemporary conflicts of the twenty-first century.

This edited volume examines the group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies by adopting ideas developed in social psychology and the `everyday peace¿ discourse in peace and conflict studies.

Examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance.

Analyzes how 'postmodern' conflict, such as the Balkan Wars, and the post-9/11 'new terrorism' can be prevented and/or otherwise dealt with.

Illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict. This book brings the two faces of social capital together. It investigates the role of social capital in inciting and/or furthering violence. It examines the contributions of social capital to peace building.

Explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations.

Examines the actions being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world. This book explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding.

Examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. This book also examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it produces two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'.

Offering an analysis of the peace process in Ireland and the Dayton Accords in Bosnia Herzegovina, this book argues that the problem with consociational arrangements is not simply that they institutionalise ethnic division and privilege particular identities or groups, but, importantly, that they close down the space for other ways of being.

Examines the nexus between arms availability and armed violence.

This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process.

Examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland. This book explains the importance of economic and social development in promoting cross-community contact as well as within single-identity communities.

This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.