Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace And The Global System - Softcover

Wallensteen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857020501 ISBN 13: 9780857020505

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

The eagerly awaited new edition of this highly-popular text continues to be the most lucid and engaging book available on conflict resolution and peace agreements.

Peter Wallensteen, a renowned academic in the field, draws on recent research and examples from around the world, linking the theory of conflict resolution to real-world cases throughout the book.

NEW to the third edition:

• Expanded coverage of the making of peace agreements, including peace and justice, disarmament, and gender-peace connections

• Coverage of the actions of the Obama administration

• Explores the ongoing situations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, the Cote D′Ivoire, Iran, Pakistan and the Arab democratic wave from a conflict resolution perspective

• Updated coverage of the continuing ′war on terror′.

• Attention is given to the comparison of different outcomes, whether negotiated between parties or victory of one over the other with references to Sri Lanka, the Middle East, and Liberia.

Understanding Conflict Resolution remains an essential text for all students, lecturers and researchers of peace and conflict resolution in international relations, global politics and political science.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden since 2012. He held the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (1985-2012). He is also the Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (since 2006). He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and the Special Program on sanctions (SPITS). His Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Sage, earlier edition, is available also in an Arabic translation) is used in teaching around the world. His book Peace Research: Theory and Practice demonstrates his range of research interests (Routledge 2011) and has recently been translated into Chinese. Recently he also edited together with Ambassador Anders Bjurner Regional Organizations and Peacemaking. Challengers to the UN? (Routledge 2015). In 2010 he and Isak Svensson published The Go-Between a study of mediation efforts by the renown Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson. Wallensteen has published widely on conflict trends, conflict resolution, mediation, prevention, sanctions and the United Nations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857020501
• ISBN 13: 9780857020505
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 360