Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution
This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly leading to the transformation of entire regions into zones of instability and violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, L
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ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION Edited by Martin Leiner Christine Schliesser
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series editor Oliver P. Richmond University of Manchester Manchester, UK “This volume comes at the right time. Conflict resolution and reconciliation are some of the most urgent challenges we face in a time in which the world seems to fall back into patterns of hate and violence that we had hoped to have overcome after the end of the cold war. The editors have assembled an impressive number and variety of authors which represent different contexts and can help us to understand ways to overcome violence. May this book inspire many to find new trust that a different world is possible!” —Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Chair of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany “Expertly edited by Christine Schliesser and Martin Leiner, this comprehensive and wellstructured volume collects a number of very useful contributions to the ‘general theme’ of peace-making and conflict resolution. The overall impact of these uniformly excellent chapters is to change our perception on what is the right thing to do before, in, and after conflicts. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in this topic, including students, scholars, and practitioners.” —Jeffrey Haynes, London Metropolitan University, UK “This timely publication is a gift to societies all over the world. Building upon insights from different contexts, a diversity of disciplines, and various spheres of society, this book develops a constructive approach to the terrain of conflict resolution studies, that does not only seek to understand conflict and violence, but that seeks ways of building peace, reconciliation and justice in a world of violence and conflict. It is demonstrated how reconciling justice, and justice-seeking reconciliation in all walks of life advance the quest for an ethos and culture of peace. The constructive and innovative approach is also demonstrated in the exploration of the role of various forms of art in the advancement of peace.” —Nico Koopman, Vice-rector for Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
This agenda-setting series of research monographs, now more than a decade old, provides an interdisciplinary forum aimed at advancing innovative new agendas for approaches to, and understandings of, peace and conflict studies and International Relations. Many of the critical volumes the series has so far hosted have contributed to new avenues of analysis directly or indirectly related to the search for positive, emancipatory, and hybrid forms of peace. New perspectives on peacemaking in practice and in theory, their implications for the international peace architecture, and different conflict-affected regions around the world, remain crucial. This series’ contributions offers both theoretical and empirical insights into many of the world’s most intractable conflicts and any subsequent attempts to build a new and more sustainable peace, responsive to the needs and norms of thos
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