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Re-Configurations : Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Cris…
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner.
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- 9783658311605
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- xiii, 277 p
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- Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens,
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- 320.956 OUA r
Lives in peace research
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- xx; 508 PG; ill.
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- Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
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- 327.172072 LIV l
Building a Peace Economy? : Liberal peacebuilding and the development-securit…
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and transforming them into more peaceful economic and political relationships. Through this examination…
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- 9781526129376
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- 219p : ill
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- 303.66 JEN b
Paths to a culture of tolerance and peace
We are living today in a multicultural world, surrounded by people from different backgrounds, cultures and religions. Establishing tolerance and peace has become crucial. Without these qualities, social stability and communal harmony are threatened; and acceptance of each other remains elusive. Spreading a culture of tolerance and peace is necessary to address contemporary issues of world peac…
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- 9781000793161
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- xix; ill; 260 p.
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- 327.172 ZEI p
Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory
‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. Schultze-Kraft’s new book is an impressive piece of synthesis, a personal manifesto married to a rigorous interrogation of the theoretical literature. It pushes boundaries enhancing the sustaining peace agenda. As such it deserves the critical attention…
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- 6
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- 9783030936549
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- xi; 119; ill.
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- 327.1 EDU M
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice How Societies Re…
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding rec…
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- 9781108919500
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- xvii, 310 p ; ill
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- 155.232 RES J
War And Peace in The Western Political Imagination
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at…
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- 9781474258722
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Football And Nation Building In Columbia ( 2010-2018 )
This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliber…
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- 9781802070491
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- History of sport
Mobilizing global knowledge : refugee research in an age of displacement
An examination of, and guide to, the challenges and responsibilities of doing research with displaced peoples while respecting their complex needs. In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have be…
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- 9
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- 9781773850870
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- vii, 336p.; ill.
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- 305.906914072 MOB m
Operationalisation of hybrid peacebuilding in Asia : from theory to practice
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the foundation for introducing the mid-space actor typology is established. Mid-space actors as insider-partial mediators are perceived to be vital agents for peace processes in confl…
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- 9783030677589
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- xix, 203p. : ill.
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- 327.17209596 OPE o
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