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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.

Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ""ethnic cleansing"" and the world's expanding killing fields. They anticipate mass death and genocide for the 21st century and provide responses to this impending catastrophe.

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.

This work integrates feminist scholarship with peace research to draw attention to the fundamental relationship between sexism and militarism. The author sees an unhealthy imbalance of male principles in modern society, leading to war, aggression, greed, and other embodiments of masculinity.

This text stresses the relationship between gender and politics by illuminating the daily experiences of women in Israel and in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Issues covered include: the violence against women; the link between militarism and sexism; and the role of nationalism.

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.

Egypt is considered the birthplace of modern Islamic movements and is a center of contemporary Islamic thought. It is also home to one of the oldest Christian populations in the world. This book considers the role of governmental and nongovernmental actors in conflict resolution and the promotion of positive Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt.

Explores why the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have not evolved into a security community. This book focuses on the tensions resulting from policies in the Baltic states aiming at an increase in both security and sovereignty. It is a multifaceted look at issues of security in the contemporary world.

A comprehensive history of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and of women's roles in US public policy in the first half of the 20th century.

In the field of conflict analysis, the topic of preconditions for negotiations has been a relatively neglected one. This volume seeks to fill the gap by moving beyond a discussion of techniques for negotiations, to addressing the problem of getting adversaries to enter into negotiations.

This work seeks to develop theory concerning the causes, evolution and transformation of intractability by means of analyzing conflicts in a wide variety of contexts. These range from divorce and custody cases to the international conflicts in the Middle East.

This work seeks to develop theory concerning the causes, evolution and transformation of intractability by means of analyzing conflicts in a wide variety of contexts. These range from divorce and custody cases to the international conflicts in the Middle East.

When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation. In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America. This title offers an oral history of Diallo's death.

A survey of the wave of communal living in America, which crested in the 1960s and early 1970s. Based on over 500 interviews conducted for the 60s Commune Project, among other sources, it preserves a colourful and vigorous episode in American history.

This work documents the activities of the American peace activists who travelled to Vietnam to meet with officials in Hanoi and the National Liberation Front. The activists included Mary Clarke, Staughton Lynd, Dr George Perera, Elizabeth Boardman, Joseph Elder and Jane Fonda.

The Women's Peace Union grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the early-20th century. This text investigates the personalities and the philosophical disagreements of the union's leading members, their political tactics, commitment to pacifism and feminism, and eventual burnout.

This work establishes a scenario of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Authors consider a number of cause-and-effect situations on industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide.

Sociologist Elise Boulding offers a collection of essays that emphasize her study of civil society during the second half of the 20th century. She revisits her theme of connection among family, community and government, offering perspectives and advice on how to fuel the process of peace.

A study of unarmed peacekeeping, focusing on Gandhi's ""Shanti Sena"", which was active during the period 1957 to 1975. It is based on interviews with key participants and analysts of the peace army and archival documents. It draws parallels with the complex situation in today's UN.

The message of this work is that it is possible for the people of the world to share common space, resources and opportunities. The author argues that non-governmental organizations are more effective than governments in dealing with world issues, and more suited to the task.