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This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global climate change, borders, technology, and postcolonialism.

Using a unique application of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), this book provides a critical, interdisciplinary, examination of the contemporary practice of UN peacekeeping. Is peacekeeping intervention? Since its conception in the mid-1950s, peacekeeping has significantly evolved from traditional, lightly armed, passive operations to robust, multi-dimensional stabilisation peacekeeping operations. This raises questions as to whether this is simply a natural evolution of peacekeeping or whether it marks an expansion of the concept beyond its boundaries, pushing it into the realm of peace enforcement or intervention. In response, this book examines the frameworks which govern UN peacekeeping and seeks to understand the relationship between peacekeeping and the principle of non-intervention. Providing practical examples from the United Nations' operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and drawing upon interviews with key international actors including UN personnel, the book explores the boundaries of peacekeeping, contending that peacekeeping, at times, becomes a form of intervention. This, the book argues, is detrimental both to the concept of peacekeeping and to the host state, and it concludes by offering a series of recommendations to re-affirm peacekeeping's boundaries and amplify the effectiveness of contemporary peacekeeping.

Why are progressives often critical of US foreign policy and the national security state? What would a statecraft that pulls ideas from the American left look like? Grand Strategies of the Left brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice. It argues that American progressives think durable security will only come by prioritizing the interconnected conditions of peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. US statecraft - including defense policy - should be retooled not for primacy, endless power accumulation, or a political status quo that privileges elites, but rather to shape the context that gives rise to perpetual insecurity. Progressive worldmaking has its own risks and dilemmas but expands how we imagine what the world is and could be.

Sustainable peace involves more than simply including youth in official peacebuilding mechanisms or recognizing their local peacebuilding work; it requires a transformation in thinking about the youth as actors in the world of security and peace. Using case studies from around the globe, the contributors to this volume analyse why states are afraid of their young people, why 'youth participation' in formal peace processes matters but is insufficient, and ways that young people are working outside of official systems to create and nurture peace on their own terms. The volume offers guidance for ways to bridge the disconnect that exists between institutional assumptions and expectations for youth as peacebuilders and the actual sustainable peace leadership of youth. Throughout, it emphasises a critical approach to peacebuilding with, for and by youth.

We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it. Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.

Chapter 1. Growing Up in Vienna (1949-1967) -- Chapter 2. Experiencing the Unfolding of the Peace Process (1967-1990) -- Chapter 3. From the Madrid Conference to the Conclusion of the First Oslo Accord (1991-1993) -- Chapter 4. The Oslo Process of Trial and Error Unfolds (1993-1999) -- Chapter 5. From Hope Under Benjamin Netanyahu to Disaster Under Ehud Barak (1999-2001) -- Chapter 6. The Need to Rethink Possible Action (2001) -- Chapter 7. Maintaining the Struggle for a Two-State Solution under Sharon and Olmert (2001-2009) -- Chapter 8. The Netanyahu-Obama Years (2009-2017) -- Chapter 9. Seeking a Way Forward: Brainstorming in Norway and the Conclusions of the Abraham Accords (2017-2021) -- Chapter 10. Netanyahu's Election Victory of 2022: The Challenge Ahead -- Chapter 11. My Suggested Conclusions for Future Peace Activists.

MICHAEL THUMANNS BESTSELLER MIT EINEM NEUEN KAPITEL ZUR AKTUELLEN LAGE In seinem SPIEGEL-Bestseller zeichnet der Moskau-Korrespondent der ZEIT Michael Thumann auf atemberaubende Weise den Absturz Russlands in eine zunehmend totalitäre Diktatur und den Weg in Putins imperialistischen Krieg aus nächster Nähe nach. Das Motiv des Diktators und seiner Getreuen: Revanche zu nehmen für die demokratische Öffnung nach 1991 und die vermeintliche Demütigung durch den Westen. Putins Herrschaft radikalisiert sich weiter. Es ist das bedrohlichste Regime der Welt. Die grundlegend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe enthält bislang unveröffentlichte Einsichten über Putins Verhältnis zu den radikalen Nationalisten im eigenen Land und die Stabilität seiner Herrschaft nach dem Aufstand und dem Tod seines Widersachers Prigoschin. "Ein großartiges Buch zur jüngsten Zeitgeschichte - glänzend geschrieben." ndr Kultur 40000 verkaufte Exemplare der HC-Ausgabe Mit einem neuen Kapitel zur Stabilität von Putins Herrschaft nach dem Aufstand und Tod Prigoschins Michael Thumann ist Moskau-Korrespondent der ZEIT und einer der besten Russlandkenner "Ein scharfsinniges, ein horizonterweiterndes Buch." Denis Scheck

In this book, Joan C. Lopez and Beth Fisher-Yoshida offer an alternative narrative of youth and peacebuilding, to the popular one about youth and violence. Using testimonies of current and past youth community leaders in Colombia, Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida tell a different story of hope, creativity, and unrelenting resilience. They bring attention to the ways peaceful responses to violent conflicts are formed in communities and how these have the potential to inform processes of peacebuilding in areas with similar social and historical characteristics. Focused on action-oriented initiatives, the book concludes by proposing ways in which social change can continue to happen and how we might be able to foster it. Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida specifically explore ways in which we can continue to support efforts and create new initiatives for other youth. Some of these ideas include doing more capacity building, fostering more networking and knowledge transfers, identifying ways of increasing social entrepreneurship, and building more effective youth leaders. Narratives of Peacebuilding in Colombia fills an important gap in the literature on the characteristics of peacebuilding.

"Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities."--

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika gelten als das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten und nehmen zugleich im Global Peace Index einen der hinteren Ränge ein. Wie ist das möglich? Gert Hellerich beleuchtet die von Gewalt im Inneren sowie nach außen hin geprägte Realität des Landes. Er zeichnet ein düsteres Panorama von weithin präsenter Kriminalität und Alltagsgewalt, der Beteiligung der USA an internationalen kriegerischen Konflikten und einer damit einhergehenden ausgeprägten Militarisierung von Staat und Gesellschaft. In einem Plädoyer gegen die zerstörerische Macht der Gewalt stellt Hellerich Wege vor, die in eine Zukunft gewaltfreier Konfliktlösungen weisen. Vielversprechende Ansatzpunkte dafür sieht er in der religiösen und kulturellen Verwurzelung der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft im Christentum und in der Friedfertigkeit Jesu