A new book on Peace and Conflict Studies

Rout­ledge will pub­lish Webel and Johan­sen;  Peace and Con­flict Stu­dies: A Rea­der on Decem­ber 14th.

See: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415591294/

It 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 1 PEACE STUDIES, PEACE EDUCATION, PEACE RESEARCH AND PEACE 

1    Sha­ping a vision – the nature of peace stu­dies     CONRAD G. BRUNK
2    Four major chal­len­ges facing peace edu­ca­tion in regions of intractable con­flict     GAVRIEL SALOMON
3    Peace in inter­na­tio­nal rela­tions    OLIVER P. RICHMOND
4    Glo­bal peace index   
5    Thin­king peace     CHARLES P. WEBEL
6    Posi­tive and nega­tive peace    JOHAN GALTUNG

PART 2 PEACE THEORIES AND PEACE MOVEMENTS   

7    Eter­nal peace    IMMANUEL KANT
8    Address to the swedish peace con­gress in 1909    LEO TOLSTÓY
9    The moral equi­va­lent of war   WILLIAM JAMES
10    The Russell–Einstein mani­festo   
11    A human approach to world peace     DALAI LAMA
12    “What is peace?”     DAVID CORTRIGHT
13    ‘Intro­duc­tion’ from Peace Move­ments in Inter­na­tio­nal Pro­test and World Poli­tics since 1945     APRIL CARTER
14    From pro­test to cul­tural crea­ti­vity: peace move­ments iden­ti­fied and revi­sited     NIGEL YOUNG

THE MEANINGS AND NATURE OF CONFLICT    

15    On Vio­lence     HANNAH ARENDT
16    Geneva decla­ra­tion on armed vio­lence and devel­op­ment   
17    Pre­ven­ting vio­lence and redu­cing its impact: how devel­op­ment agen­cies can help     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
18    Vio­lence pre­ven­tion: the evi­dence     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
19    Let­ter to Sig­mund Freud, 30 July 1932     ALBERT EINSTEIN
20    Why war?     SIGMUND FREUD
21    UNESCO: the Seville state­ment   
22    Psycho­lo­gical con­tri­bu­tions to under­stan­ding peace and con­flict     CHARLES P. WEBEL AND VIERA SOTAKOVA
23    “The evil scourge of ter­ro­rism”: rea­lity, con­struc­tion, remedy     NOAM CHOMSKY

PART 4 CONFLICT ANALYSIS, TRANSFORMATION AND PREVENTION  

24    Pro­ta­go­nist stra­te­gies that help end vio­lence     LOUIS KRIESBERG AND GEAROID MILLAR
25    Non­vio­lent geopo­li­tics: ratio­na­lity and resi­stance     RICHARD FALK
26    The Uni­ted Sta­tes and pro-democracy revo­lu­tions in the Middle East     STEVEN ZUNES

27    How do post-conflict socie­ties deal with a trau­ma­tic past and pro­mote natio­nal unity and recon­ci­lia­tion?     ANDREW RIGBY
28    Dis­ar­ma­ment and sur­vi­val     MARC PILISUK
29    Over­coming war: the impor­tance of con­struc­tive alter­na­ti­ves     CHRISTINE SCHWEITZER

PART 5 NONVIOLENT ACTION AND POLITICAL CHANGE   

30    Home rule     M. K. GANDHI
31    Pil­grimage to non­vio­lence     MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
32    How non­vio­lence works     BRIAN MARTIN
33    From dicta­torship to democracy: a con­cep­tual fram­ework for libe­ra­tion     GENE SHARP
34    Non­vio­lent revo­lu­tio­nary move­ments     JØRGEN JOHANSEN

PART 6  BUILDING INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES OF PEACE 

35    A cri­ti­que of robust peace­kee­ping in con­tem­po­rary peace ope­ra­tions     THIERRY TARDY
36    Social entre­preneurs and con­struc­tive change: the wis­dom of cir­cum­ven­ting con­flict     RYSZARD PRASKIER, ANDREJ NOWAK, PETER T. COLEMAN
37    Systems-building before state-building: on the sys­te­mic precon­ditions of state-building     PETER HALDÈN
38    Gen­der and peace: towards a gender-inclusive, holi­s­tic per­s­pec­tive     TONY JENKINS AND BETTY A. REARDON
39    Com­pe­ting dis­cour­ses on aggres­sion and peace­ful­ness     MAJKEN JUL SØRENSEN
40    Gen­der, con­flict, and social capi­tal: bonding and brid­ging in war in the for­mer Yugo­sla­via     MAJA KORAC
41    Peace­ful socie­ties and eve­ryday beha­vior     ELISE BOULDING