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The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians has proven to be one of the most complex and intractable conflicts, persisting for more than a century despite the efforts of leaders in both the Middle East and the West. This title examines the relationship between the Jewish majority and the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.

Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In this volume, Ross considers the relationship between participation in Jewish-Palestinian encounters and the long-term worldview and commitment to social change of their participants.

Since the early 1950s, John Paul Lederach has travelled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. He has worked with governments, justice departments, and youth programs in Latin America, the Philippines, Cambodia, Somalia, and Africa. Drawing on his experience, Lederach explains the process and key variables used in teaching conflict resolution.

Argues that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.

Argues that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.

Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon.

Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon.

Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping.

Wanis-St. John takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a frame work, the author focuses on the uses and misuses of "back channel" negotiations.

Offers a comprehensive account of Nigerian civil society groups in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kew blends democratic theory with conflict resolution methodologies to argue that the manner in which groups - and states - manage internal conflicts provides an important gauge as to how democratic their political cultures are.

A memoir written at 95, by America's oldest living conscientious objector. It tells of the harsh treatment meted out to conscientious objectors during World War I, his upbringing in rural upstate New York, and the impact on his thinking by socialist leaders such as Eugene Dobs and Norman Thomas.

This text stresses the relationship between gender and politics by illuminating the daily experiences of women in Israel and in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Issues covered include: the violence against women; the link between militarism and sexism; and the role of nationalism.

Brings together the histories of the women's peace movement and the black women's club and social reform movement in a story of community and consciousness building between the world wars. This study enables us to examine more fully the history of race in US women's movements and illuminates the role of the women's peace movement in setting the foundation for the civil rights movement.

On April 11, 1981, two neighbouring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match. When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly escalated. Drawing on interviews, council archives, and media reports, Shihade explores the incident and subsequent attack on Kafr Yassif in the context of prevailing theories of ethnic and communal conflict.

Examines the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and firsthand knowledge of the region gained from multiple research visits. By shifting geographical frames-local, regional, and international-this provides a robust analysis of the stakes involved.

Examines the dynamics of ethnonationalism in Cyprus, a country mired in a decades-long struggle fueled by ethnic rivalry. This title presents analysis of Cyprus' historic conflict that examines the logic of nationalist thinking, assesses the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalism, and traces the division of Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Examines the dynamics of ethnonationalism in Cyprus, a country mired in a decades-long struggle fueled by ethnic rivalry. Analysing Cyprus' historic conflict, this book examines the logic of nationalist thinking, assesses the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalism, and traces the division of Greek and Turkish Cypriots since independence in 1960.

Offers an analysis of US policy from 1945 to the summer of 1963, exploring the reasons for failure and revealing the complex motivations that eventually led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This book considers negotiations as an evolving phenomenon that preoccupied three presidents, from Truman to Kennedy.

With its unique emphasis on ethnic cooperation rather than discord, this work provides insights into how the international community can help to restrain ethnic conflict in the twenty first century. By examining the construction of ethnic peace in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Patrice McMahon accurately describes how the international community worked to quell growing tensions in the East.

Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ""ethnic cleansing"" and the world's expanding killing fields. They anticipate mass death and genocide for the 21st century and provide responses to this impending catastrophe.

An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.

Shows how the complex and contradictory characteristics of globalization constrain and promote the peace processes in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. This title views that a critical interrogation of the interface between economic interests and policy makers is central to an understanding of the relationship between globalization and peace.

Explains the process whereby countries become locked into long-term international conflicts, and how they can escape that conflict spiral. This book analyzes how domestic institutions and interactions among nations converge to become incentives for either war or peace.

A collection of essays which explore the role of culture, race, and oppression in resolving disputes. It addresses such issues as culturally sensitive mediation practices, the diversity of perspectives in conflict resolution literature, and power dynamics.

Egypt is considered the birthplace of modern Islamic movements and is a center of contemporary Islamic thought. It is also home to one of the oldest Christian populations in the world. This book considers the role of governmental and nongovernmental actors in conflict resolution and the promotion of positive Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt.

Explores why the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have not evolved into a security community. This book focuses on the tensions resulting from policies in the Baltic states aiming at an increase in both security and sovereignty. It is a multifaceted look at issues of security in the contemporary world.

When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation. In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America. This title offers an oral history of Diallo's death.

A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the ""mothers"" of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.