Contemporary conflict resolution : the prevention, management and transformation of deadly conflicts / Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-486) and index.

1. Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Concepts and Definitions -- 2. Conflict Resolution: Origins, Foundations and Development of the Field -- 3. Statistics of Deadly Quarrels and the Measurement of Peace -- 4. Understanding Contemporary Conflict -- 5. Preventing Violent Conflict -- 6. Containing Violent Conflict: Peacekeeping -- 7. Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking -- 8. Post-War Reconstruction -- 9. Peacebuilding -- 10. Reconciliation -- 11. Towards Cosmopolitan Conflict Resolution -- 12. Environmental Conflict Resolution -- 13. Gender in Conflict Resolution -- 14. Conflict Resolution and the Ethics of Intervention -- 15. Culture, Religion and Conflict Resolution -- 16. Conflict Resolution in Art and Popular Culture -- 17. Conflict Resolution, the Media and the Communications Revolution -- 18. Managing Linguistic Intractability: Dialogue, Discourse and Radical Disagreement -- 19. Conflict Resolution: Theories and Critiques -- 20. Conflict Resolution and the Future.

Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The third edition of this hugely popular text explains the key concepts, charts the development of the field, evaluates successes and failures, and assesses the main current challenges and debates in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Existing material has been thoroughly updated and four new chapters added, on environmental conflict resolution, conflict resolution in the arts and popular culture, conflict resolution in the media and the communications revolution, and theories and critiques of the field. The authors argue that a new form of cosmopolitan conflict resolution is emerging, which offers a hopeful means for human societies to handle their conflicts non-violently and eventually to transcend and celebrate their differences. Part I offers a comprehensive survey of the theory and practice of conflict resolution. Part II sets the field within the context of rapid global change and addresses the controversies that have surrounded conflict resolution as it has entered the mainstream. Contemporary Conflict Resolution is essential reading for students of peace and security studies, conflict management and international politics, as well as for those working in non-governmental organizations and think-tanks.