Rethinking Peacebuilding: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415525039 ISBN 13: 9780415525039

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.

Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are commonly referred to there is surprisingly little research and few conceptualizations of the interplay between the two.

This edited volume is the result of three years of collaborative research and draws upon insights from such disciplines as peace and conflict, international law, political science and international relations. It contains policy-relevant knowledge about effective peacebuilding strategies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the contemporary peace processes in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches, the work makes an original contribution to the growing literature on peacebuilding.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics and IR/Security Studies.

About this title

About the Author

Karin Aggestam is Associate Professor in Political Science and currently the director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Annika Björkdahl is Associate Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415525039
• ISBN 13: 9780415525039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Aggestam Karin, Björkdahl Annika