Chapters 1, 4 and 11 are available for download.
1. Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Concepts and Definitions (171kb) 
- Why a Second Edition?
- Conflict Resolution Models
- Terminology
- Structure of the Book
- Recommended Reading
2. Conflict Resolution: Origins, Foundations and Development of the Field
- Precursors: the First Generation 1918-1945
- Foundations: the Second Generation 1945-1965
- Consolidation: the Third Generation 1965-1985
- Reconstruction: the Fourth Generation 1985-2005
- Recommended Reading
3. Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
- The Conflict Domain
- Conflict Trends
- Conflict Distribution
- Conflict Types
- Terrorism and Conflict
- Conflict Costs
- Conflict Mapping and Conflict Tracking
- Recommended Reading
4. Understanding Contemporary Conflict (191kb)
- Theories and Frameworks
- The Context for an Evaluation of Conflict Resolution Theory
- Edward Azar's Theory of Protracted Social Conflict (PSC)
- Have More Recent Theories Confirmed or Discredited PSC?
- An Interpretative Framework for Conflict Analysis
- Conclusion
- Recommended Reading
5. Preventing Violent Conflict
- Causes and Preventors of War
- Deep and Light Prevention
- Early Warning
- Deep or Structural Prevention: Global, International and Internal Conflict Levels
- Light or Operational Prevention of Armed Conflict
- Mainstreaming Prevention: International Organizations and the Evolution of Norms and Policies
- Recent experiences and Case Studies
- Conclusion
- Recommended Reading
6. Containing Violent Conflict: Peacekeeping
- First and Second Generation UN Peacekeeping 1956-1995
- War Zones, War Economies and Cultures of Violence
- To Intervene or Not to Intervene? New Requirements for Third Generation Peacekeeping
- Third Generation Peacekeeping and Human Security
- Case Study: Peacekeeping in Kosovo
- Case Study: Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone
- Conclusion: The Transformationist Critique
- Recommended Reading
7. Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking
- The Challenge of Ending Violent Conflict
- The Transformation of Conflict: A Generic Framework
- De-escalation, Ripeness and Conditions for Ending Violent Conflict
- Mediation and Third Party Intervention
- Peace Processes: Turning points, Sticking Points and Spoilers
- Negotiations and Settlements
- Case Study: South Africa
- Case Study: The Oslo Accords and the Search for Peace in the Middle East
- Conclusion
- Recommended Reading
8. Post-War Reconstruction
- Intervention, Reconstruction, Withdrawal (IRW) Operations 1989-2004
- The Post-War Reconstruction Planning Gap
- Wittgenstein's Locomotive Cabin: the International Post-War Reconstruction
- Blueprint
- A Conflict Resolution Assessment: Evaluating Sectors and Phases
- A Conflict Resolution Assessment: Evaluating Cases
- Conclusion
- Recommended Reading
9. Peacebuilding
- The Idea of Peacebuilding From Below
- The Mainstreaming of Peacebuilding Models in International Policy
- Implementing Peacebuilding from Below
- Conclusion
- Recommended Reading
10. Reconciliation
- Four Meanings of Reconciliation
- Between Separation and a Fusion of Identities
- Dealing with the Past: Trauma and Atrocity
- Peace or Justice? Not Exclusive Alternatives
- Alternative Paths to Reconciliation
- Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution: Going Down the Escalation Ladder
- Recommended Reading
PART II COSMOPOLITAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION: CRITIQUES, DEBATES, CONTROVERSIES
11. Terror, Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution and Global Justice (125kb)
- Conflict Resolution and Terrorism
- Conflict Resolution as a Response
- First Dimension: Prevention - Reducing Proneness to Terrorism
- Democracy as an Antidote to Terrorism?
- Second Dimension: Persuasion - Reducing Motivation and Support
- Third Dimension: Denial - Reducing Vulnerability and Defeating Hardliners
- Fourth Dimension: Cooperation - Maximizing International Efforts
- Recommended Reading
12. Gender and Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution
- Engendering Conflict Resolution Stage 1: Making Women Visible as Agents of Change - the Work of Elise Boulding
- Engendering Conflict Resolution Stage 2: Data-Collection and Case Studies
- Engendering Conflict Resolution Stage 3: Rethinking Conflict Resolution Theory
- Engendering Conflict Resolution Stage 4: Mainstreaming Gender in Policy-Making and the Empowerment of Women
- Recommended Reading
13. Interfering in Other People's Conflicts: The Ethics of Intervention
- Conflict Resolution Roles
- Conflict Resolution Intervention Principles
- From Just War to Just Intervention
- International Ethics, International Law and International Politics
- Recommended Reading
14. Dialogue, Discourse and Disagreement
- Interactive Conflict Resolution
- Dialogical Conflict Resolution and Gadamerian Hermeneutics
- Discursive Conflict Transformation and Habermasian Critical Theory
- Conclusion: Taking Radical Disagreement Seriously in Conflict Resolution
- Recommended Reading
15. Culture, Religion and Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution
- How Far Down Does Cultural Variation Reach?
- Culture and Conflict Resolution: Three Responses
- Religion and Conflict Resolution: Islamic and Buddhist Traditions
- Recommended Reading
16. Future Directions
- The Nature of the International Collectivity
- The Arrow of the Future: Conflict Resolution and World Politics
- International Law, International Intervention and the United Nations
- Conflict Resolution: The Fifth Generation 2005-2025
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