“There is no more definitive text in the field of peace and conflict studies. It is impressive in its clarity, comprehensiveness, and ability to incorporate an historical overview of each area as well as the latest thinking and debates.”
— Professor Oliver Richmond, Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of St Andrews
Tom Woodhouse
Professor Tom Woodhouse is the Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution within the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and founded the Centre in 1990. The Centre has a strong research and teaching profile around conflict analysis, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and the development of conflict theory related to international conflict. He directs the Centre’s E-Learning Programme. He is a member of the Board of the Conflict Research Society, academic director of the Rotary Centres for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, and adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues.
His research interests include conflict resolution and conflict theory, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the role of popular culture and the arts in conflict resolution, the impact of ICT on conflict resolution (cyber peace), and E-Learning Methods in Conflict Resolution education.
In addition to Contemporary Conflict Resolution, his main publications include Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict: A Reconceptualisation. (Polity Press, 1996, with Oliver Ramsbotham): United Nations Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Towards Effective Intervention in Contemporary Conflict, (Macmillan, 1997 edited, with Bruce and Dando): Encyclopaedia of International Peacekeeping Operations, (ABC/CLIO, with Oliver. Ramsbotham): Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution (Frank Cass, 2000, with Oliver Ramsbotham): ‘The Politics of Peacekeeping: British Perspectives’, in D. Sorenson and P. Woods, (eds.,) The Security Context of United Nations Peacekeeping, Taylor and Francis, 2004. pp. 95-113 (with A Ramsbotham): ‘Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping and the Globalisation of Security’, International Peacekeeping, Vol 12, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 139-156, (with Oliver Ramsbotham); Curran D., and Woodhouse, T., Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: what can Africa contribute?, International Affairs November 2007 Vol 83 No 6 pp 1055–1070, Blackwell Publishing Ltd/The Royal Institute of International Affairs: Woodhouse, T., ‘Conflict and conflict resolution’, in The Elgar Companion to Development Studies’, edited by Clark, D.A., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, pp. 76-81. Peacekeeping, Peace Culture and Conflict Resolution, in International Peacekeeping, Vol. 17, 4, 2010, pp 486-498. Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker and Pioneer of Peace Studies, in Journal of Conflictology Vol 1 No 1, 2010
He is co-editor, with Oliver Ramsbotham of Routledge Series Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.
