Peace & Conflict

Connecting Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation
Elisabeth Porter

Can postconflict states achieve both peace and justice as they deal with a traumatic past? What role does reconciliation play in healing wounds, building trust, and rectifying injustices?    More >

Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse
I. William Zartman

What would have happened had the "road not taken" been the chosen action in past conflict interventions? What can we learn from a close look at alternatives that were not selected?    More >

Decisionmaking on War and Peace: The Cognitive-Rational Debate
Nehemia Geva and Alex Mintz, editors

Reviewing, comparing, and contrasting major models of foreign policy decisionmaking, contributors to this volume make a substantial contribution to the debate between cognitive and rational    More >

Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace
Terrence Lyons

With the increasing use of elections as a tool for peacebuilding after civil war, the question of why some postconflict elections succeed and others fail is a crucial one. Tackling this    More >

Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion?
Errol A. Henderson

Errol Henderson critically examines what has been called the closest thing to an empirical law in world politics, the concept of the democratic peace.   Henderson tests two versions    More >

Development and Humanitarianism: Practical Issues
Deborah Eade and Tony Vaux, editors

Humanitarian intervention invariably rubs shoulders with politics—awkwardly, and sometimes with tragic results.  Development and Humanitarianism draws from the contents of the    More >

Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Theory and Practice
Desmond Molloy

Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, or DDR, has been widely advocated for decades as an essential component of postconflict peacebuilding. But DDR in practice has generated more    More >

Do No Harm:  How Aid Can Support Peace—or War
Mary B. Anderson

Echoing the words of the Hippocratic Oath, the author of Do No Harm challenges aid agency staff to take responsibility for the ways that their assistance affects conflicts. Anderson cites    More >

Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid After the 2004 Tsunami
Jennifer Hyndman

What happens when a humanitarian crisis with political roots interacts with a humanitarian crisis induced by environmental disaster? That is the question at the core of Dual    More >

Ecuador vs. Peru: Peacemaking Amid Rivalry
Monica Herz and João Pontes Nogueira

Although the 1995 Cenepa war between Ecuador and Peru was the first military conflict in South America in more than five decades, the Ecuador-Peru relationship might be characterized as one    More >

Enabling Peace in Guatemala: The Story of MINUGUA
William Stanley

William Stanley tells the absorbing story of the UN peace operation in Guatemala's ten-year endeavor (1994-2004) to build conditions that would sustain a lasting peace in the    More >

Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements
Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, editors

Why do some peace agreements successfully end civil wars, while others fail? What strategies are most effective in ensuring that warring parties comply with their treaty commitments? Of the    More >

Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest
Frank N. von Hippel

Frank N. von Hippel shares his remarkable journey as a key figure in the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, illuminating the far-reaching consequences of nuclear accidents and    More >

Evaluating Peace Operations
Paul F. Diehl and Daniel Druckman

Winner of the International Association for Conflict Management's Outstanding Book Award, 2012! There has been a great deal written on why peace operations succeed or fail.... But how    More >

Evolving Patterns of Peacekeeping: International Cooperation at Work
Hikaru Yamashita

Though historically the term peacekeeping has essentially been shorthand for UN peacekeeping, recent years have seen a proliferation of actors and initiatives in a shift to global    More >

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