Understanding Conflict Resolution

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This book shows the possibilities to solve conflicts within and between states in ways that are both academically qualified and useful for practice in diplomacy and mediation. It also convincingly demonstrates the potential for international organizations in peace making.



Jan Eliasson, Ambassador, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Secretary General of the UN 2012-2016.


-- Jan Eliasson This Fifth Edition of Understanding Conflict Resolution continues to analyse how to understand, manage and transform violent conflict non violently in the 21st century. In addition to its excellent diagnostic tools it has a completely new section on climate change and conflict. This chapter focuses particular attention on nuclear winter and the probable impacts of unchecked climate change on conflict dynamics. Understanding Conflict Resolution will continue to be a leading text in the field for many years to come,





Professor Kevin P Clements,


Director, Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo, Japan,


Chair and Foundation Director, The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand -- Professor Kevin P Clements In this new edition, Peter Wallensteen has updated his powerful argument that pairing applicable norms with appropriate techniques yields optimal results in conflict resolution. It is an argument every student, scholar, and person concerned with peace should know and engage.



Mary Ellen O'Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame -- Mary Ellen O'Connell