Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader
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Charles Webel (Contributor) Jorgen Johansen (Contributor)
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Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field.
Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge contemporary analyses. The text is divided into six general sections:
PART I: Peace Studies, Peace Education, and Peace
PART II: Peace Theories and Peace Movements
PART III: The Meanings and Nature of Conflict
PART IV: Conflict Analysis, Transformation, and Prevention
PART V: Nonviolent Action and Political Change.
PART VI: Building Institutions and Cultures of Peace
With an extensive introduction, as well as recommendations for further reading and questions for the classroom, Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader will be essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners of peace and conflict studies, and conflict resolution. It is also highly recommended for students of peace operations, peacebuilding, sociology, international security and IR in general. 5 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
About the Author
Charles P. Webel has recently taught at the Honors College of the University of South Florida, the University of New York in Prague, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his PhD. He is the author/editor of six books, including Terror, Terrorism and the Human Condition (2005); the Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (2007, co-edited with Johan Galtung), and Peace and Conflict Studies (2002, 2010, co-authored with David P. Barash). Jorgen Johansen has 30 years' experience as a consultant and trainer in conflict prevention and resolution. He is a lecturer at the Peace and Development Research Institute, Gothenburg University, and at Syracuse University, New York, USA.
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- Contributor: Charles Webel
- Imprint: Routledge
- ISBN13: 9780415591287
- Number of Pages: 456
- Packaged Dimensions: 174x246mm
- Packaged Weight: 1000
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Release Date: 2011-12-13
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Charles P. Webel has recently taught at the Honors College of the University of South Florida, the University of New York in Prague, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his PhD. He is the author/editor of six books, including Terror, Terrorism and the Human Condition (2005); the Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (2007, co-edited with Johan Galtung), and Peace and Conflict Studies (2002, 2010, co-authored with David P. Barash). Jorgen Johansen has 30 years' experience as a consultant and trainer in conflict prevention and resolution. He is a lecturer at the Peace and Development Research Institute, Gothenburg University, and at Syracuse University, New York, USA.
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