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Picking up where "Minorities at Risk" left off, "Peoples Versus States" offers an expanded and updated perspective on ethnic and nationalist conflict throughout the world, as well as efforts to manage it.Ted Gurr surveys the behavior of 275 politically active ethnic groups during the 1990s and pinpoints the factors that encourage the assertion of ethnic identities. Whereas his highly acclaimed 1993 book presented a disturbing picture of spread...

Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World examines conflict management capacities and gaps regionally and globally, and assesses whether regions-through their regional organizations or through loose coalitions of states, regional bodies, and non-official actors-are able to address an array of new and emerging security threats.

This volume takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of the justice system. The cases-Mozambique, Guatemala, East Timor, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Sudan-examine the larger historical, political, and social factors that shape the character and role of customary justice systems and their place in the overall justice sector.

Conflict Analysis: Understanding Causes, Unlocking Solutions is a guide for practitioners seeking to prevent deadly conflict or mitigate political instability. This handbook integrates theory and practice and emphasizes the importance of analyzing the causes of peace as well as the causes of conflict.

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Nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa, investigate the forms electoral violence takes, and analyze the factors that precipitate, reduce, and prevent violence.

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With more than 50 percent of the world 's landmass covered by river basins shared by two or more states, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And growing populations and accelerating demands for fresh water are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources.In this wide-ranging study, Arun Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world 's largest river basins. In each case, ...

With more than 50 percent of the world 's landmass covered by river basins shared by two or more states, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And growing populations and accelerating demands for fresh water are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources.In this wide-ranging study, Arun Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world 's largest river basins. In each case, ...

Conducting Track II Peacemaking presents the process of track II intervention as a series of steps that guide peacemakers in coordinating various track II efforts to maximize their positive impacts.

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A dramatic shift of power has taken place within Israel 's political system, where once the military was usually the servant of civilian politicians, today, argues Yoram Peri, generals lead the way when it comes to foreign and defense policymaking.

The Tragedy of Russia 's Reforms presents a boldly original analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian state. The keys to understanding these events, the authors argue, are the prescriptions of Western transitologists, the International Monetary Fund, and advocates of economic shock therapy. These prescriptions allowed the nomenklatura and the financial oligarchs to acquire Russia 's industrial and natural resour...

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Nowhere are the stakes of sectarian conflict as high as in Middle East, and nowhere is practice of interfaith dialogue more fraught with difficulty. This book discusses intricate relationships between interfaith activities and religious identity, nationalism, violence, and peacemaking in settings: Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan.

This book is the result of an international conference of Muslim scholars and practitioners who came together to address these questions, discussing contemporary Islam, its relation to violence and peacemaking, and the possibilities for reframing and reinterpreting methodologically the problems of violence and peacemaking in Muslim communities"--Introd.