Contemporary Conflict Resolution

Chapters 1, 12, and 16 are available for download.

PART I CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT RESOLUTION

1. Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Concepts and Defnitions (386kb)

• Why a Third Edition?
• Conflict Resolution Models
• Framework Models
• Classical Ideas
• New Developments in Conflict Resolution
• Terminology
• Structure of the Book
• Recommended reading

2. Conflict Resolution: Origins, Foundations and Development of the Field

• Precursors: The First Generation, 1918–1945
• Foundations: The Second Generation, 1945–1965
• Consolidation: The Third Generation, 1965–1985
• Reconstruction: The Fourth Generation, 1985–2005
• Recommended Reading

3. Statistics of Deadly Quarrels and the Measurement of Peace

• The Conflict Domain
• Measuring Peace and Peacefulness
• Conflict Trends
• Conflict Distribution
• Conflict Types
• Terrorism and Conflict
• Conflict Costs
• Conflict Mapping and Conflict Tracking
• Recommended Reading

4. Understanding Contemporary Conflict

• Theories and Frameworks
• The Context for an Evaluation of Conflict Resolution Theory
• Edward Azar's Theory of Protracted Social Conflict (PSC)
• Have More Recent Theories Confirmed or Discredited PSC?
• An Interpretative Framework for Conflict Analysis
• The Analysis and Mapping of Complex Conflict Systems
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

5. Preventing Violent Conflict

• Causation and Prevention of Wars
• Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change
• Deep or Structural Prevention
• Early Warning
• Light or Operational Prevention
• The Adoption of Conflict Prevention by International Organizations
• Evaluation of conflict prevention’s effectiveness
• Case Study: Preventive Crisis Management in Kenya
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

6. Containing Violent Conflict: Peacekeeping

• First and Second Generation UN Peacekeeping 1956-1995
• War Zones, War Economies and Cultures of Violence
• Third-Generation Peacekeeping: What Count As Peace Operations?
• Redefining Peace Operations
• Third-Generation Peacekeeping and Human Security
• Conflict Resolution and the Theoretical Debate About Peace Operations
• Case Study: Somalia 1991-2010e
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

7. Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking

• The Challenge of Ending Violent Conflict
• De-escalation, Ripeness and Conditions for Ending Violent Conflict
• Mediation and Third Party Intervention
• Peace Processes: Turning points, Sticking Points and Spoilers
• Negotiations and Settlements
• Case Studies
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

8. Post-War Reconstruction

• Postwar Peace Operations
• Intervention, Reconstruction, Withdrawal (IRW) Operations 1989-2004
• Filling the Postwar Planning Gap
• The International Postwar Reconstruction Blueprint: Dilemmas and Tradeoffs
• Current Controversies
• Summary from a Conflict Resolution Perspective
• The Question of Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

9. Peacebuilding

• The Mainstreaming of Peacebuilding Models in International Policy
• Peacebuilding Debates and Discourses: Beyond Blueprints and Towards an Emancipatory Conflict Resolution Ethic
• Hybrid Peace and Peacebuilding from Below: a Conflict Resolution Perspective
• Conclusion: Peace Education and Peacebuilding from Below in the Discourse of Conflict Resolution
• Recommended reading

10. Reconciliation

• Four Meanings of Reconciliation
• Between Separation and a Fusion of Identities
• Dealing with the Past: Trauma and Atrocity
• Peace or Justice? Not Exclusive Alternatives
• Alternative Paths to Reconciliation
• Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution: Going Down the Escalation Ladder
• Recommended Reading

PART II COSMOPOLITAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION

11. Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution

• The Nature of the International Collectivity
• The Arrow of the Future: Conflict Resolution and World Politics
• Conflict Resolution and International Institutions
• Conflict Resolution and International Law
• Conflict Resolution and Cosmopolitan Democracy
• Conflict Resolution and Terrorism
• Recommended Reading

12. Environmental Conflict Resolution (142kb)

• Tragedies of the Commons
• Conflicts of Interest Over Climate Change
• Multilevel Negotiations
• International Negotiations
• Recommended reading

13. Gender in Conflict Resolution

• Stage 1: Making Women Visible as Agents of Change
• Stage 2: Data-Collection and Case Studies
• Stage 3: Rethinking Conflict Resolution Theory
• Stage 4: Mainstreaming Gender in Policy-Making and the Empowerment of Women
• Case Study
• Recommended reading

14. The Ethics of Intervention

• Conflict Resolution Roles
• Conflict Resolution Intervention Principles
• From Just War to Just Intervention
• Conclusion: International Ethics, International Law and
• International Politics
• Recommended reading

15. Culture, Religion and Conflict Resolution

• How Far Down Does Cultural Variation Reach?
• Culture and Conflict Resolution: Three Responses
• Religion and Conflict Resolution: Islamic and Buddhist Traditions
• Conclusion
• Recommended Reading

16. Conflict Resolution in Art and Popular Culture (159kb)

• Creative Networks: Museums, Visual Arts, Music and Theatre in Conflict Resolution
• Sport and Conflict Resolution
• Building a Global Peace Culture
• Conclusion
• Recommended reading

17. Conflict Resolution, the Media and the Communications Revolution

• The Mass Media and Conflict Resolution
• Conflict Resolution in the Age of Cybertechnology
• From Cyberwar to Cyberpeace
• Recommended reading

18. Managing Linguistic Intractability: Dialogue, Discourse and Radical Disagreement

• Linguistic Intractability: the Challenge of Radical Disagreement When Conflict Resolution Fails
• Acknowledging, Exploring and Understanding Agonistic Dialogue
• Managing Radical Disagreement: Promoting a Strategic Engagement of Discourses
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: a Case Study
• Recommended reading

19. Conflict Resolution: Theories and Critiques

• The Pluralist-Cosmopolitan Heartland of Conflict Resolution
• The Realist Critique
• The Critical Theory Critique
• The Post-Structural Critique
• Non-Western/Non-Northern Critiques
• Recommended reading

20. Conflict Resolution and the Future

• Emergent Conflicts
• Future Drivers of Conflict
• The Conflict Resolution Response
• Conflict Resolution: the Next Generation
• Conclusion