Culture and International Conflict Resolution: A Critical Analysis of the Work of John Burton - Softcover

Vayrynen, Tarja

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719081408 ISBN 13: 9780719081408

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Duke of Lerma is the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. This biography challenges many of the assumptions that historians have made about him and about Spanish history at a time of profound crisis. It invites a re-evaluation of the phenomenon of government by favourites in this seminal period of European history.

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About the Author

Tarja Väyrynen is Research Director at Tampere Peace Research Institute in Finland -- .

From the Back Cover

This book re-examines conflict resolution - and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution - from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton's work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.

Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human 'being'.

The book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace studies, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as students of International Relations studying conflict resolution.

From the Inside Flap

This book re-examines conflict resolution and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton s work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle.Väyrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the world, and provides understandings of conflict and its resolution. Theories which deny the importance of cultural failure to understand the ontological conditions of human being .The book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace studies, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as students of International Relations studying conflict resolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719081408
• ISBN 13: 9780719081408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172