Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 The term peace process is now widely used to describe attempts to manage and resolve conflict. As the nature of confl

The end of the Cold War has changed the shape of organized violence in the world and the ways in which governments and others try to set its limits. Even the co

As recent events demonstrate, violence, especially ethnic violence, is exceptionally hard to extinguish. Cease-fires almost never bring a complete end to the ki

Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can id

This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars. There is no standard model of peace proces