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"In this book, the late Prof. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov argues that the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process so far has been mainly the result of the inability of both sides to reach an agreed formula for linking justice to peace. The issues of justice and injustice are focused mainly on the outcomes of the 1947-1949 first Arab-Israeli War and specifically in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. The conflicting historical narratives of the two sides regarding the question of responsibility for the injustice done to the Palestinians turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a classic case of linking the issues of justice and peace. Given that the two sides often define the conflict in terms of injustice and unfairness, these issues have particular relevance for the peace process, and this is what makes dealing with them as barriers to the resolution of the conflict so problematic. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov argues that the link between justice and peace is an important issue requiring both sides' attention, but, given the wide and currently unbridgeable gap separating the two sides, it should be postponed to the phase of reconciliation rather than being included in the process of conflict resolution. The two-state solution is endorsed as the best and practical solution and as a first step for a "just peace" in this conflict, to be followed by reconciliation. Highly topical, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers of International Relations, Peace Studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict"--

The Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) responds to one of the most frequently asked questions in the field of peace studies: "What are the challenges facing peace researchers in the 21 century?" In the first section he notes that, in some ways, the world is more peaceful now than at in any time in the past century, but then adds three sobering observations about the very high levels of manifest & potential violence, the predominantly reactive nature of most conflict prevention efforts, & the strong feelings of relative deprivation in the era of globalization. In the second section he states that if peace researchers want to make a greater difference, then they must challenge the ways & means of the current practice of peace-making, peace-keeping & peace-building. The first challenge is not to lose sight of the big picture. The macro-perspective gives an overview of the necessary peace building efforts & allows the peace builders to oversee & coordinate what they are doing. The second challenge is to get a better understanding of the sustainable peace building architecture. Winning a war can sometimes be relatively easy -- or at least rapid -- ,but winning the peace can be a far more complex & time consuming enterprise. The third challenge concerns the slow learning process. There is a need to build structures that support a better exchange of knowledge between the decision-makers, the practitioners in the field, & the research community. The fourth challenge is to deal more effectively with the peace building context, which is characterized by uncertainty, unpredictability, competing values & interests, & the struggle for power. The article ends with a plea for reflecting on the meaning of professionalism in peace building. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

There has been a close relationship between conflict, peace, development and sport. The use of sports for international and intra-state conflict analysis and peacebuilding proposes has become an important study subject in the 21st century. Sport can be associated with intolerance, nationalistic sentiments, and, most of time, violence. It is also true that international sport events may cause conflicts, violence, aggression and controversies (Öğretir-Özçelik, 2017). According to sport and olympic ideology, the main function of international sport is to promote international peace and development. It can be also used for a tool for societal change and social transformation. Since the ancient time, sport activities has related to the simulation of struggle between two conflicting parties and the civilized war. This study aims to analyze the link between international and intra-state conflicts, peace and sports. The objective of this paper is to examine the role of sports both conceptually and practically in conflict analysis and peace building. The first part is to present a conceptual framework in the study of sports, conflict resolution, and peace building. Second, it highlights some case studies where sports have an important role in international conflict and a tool for peace and reconciliation. Third, it focuses on the international use of sport and physical activity to attain the culture of peace and development objectives such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Keywords: Sport, Conflict Resolution, Peace Studies.

Este texto surge de los resultados de un proceso investigativo de incidencia llevado a cabo en el municipio de San Carlos durante los años 2016, 2017 y 2018 desde la Red Interuniversitaria por la Paz REDIPAZ e IPECAL, en el que se trazó como objetivo inicial comprender los significados construidos por las comunidades alrededor de la paz, el territorio, el conflicto armado y socioambiental, además de sus procesos y proyectos de vida colectivos; todo ello en el marco del inicio del proceso de implementación de los acuerdos de paz firmados entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP, dado que este municipio ha sido uno de los más afectados por el conflicto armado y a la vez, por el modelo económico extractivista que, de la mano de políticas estatales en alianza con multinacionales y capital privado, crean condiciones que atizan los fenómenos de violencia. Con base en esto, a medida que la investigación se fue desarrollando, fueron emergiendo otros interrogantes, entre ellos si puede ser el turismo una alternativa al modelo de desarrollo extractivista que no interfiera con las formas que tienen las comunidades para habitar sus territorios y que esté en línea con sus nociones de paz.

Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Can People of Faith, and People in Peace and Conflict Studies, Work Together?; Part I: Peace and Conflict Studies in a Contextualized Place; Chapter Two: Religion, Peace and Violence: Tensions and Promises; Chapter Three: Ahimsa; Chapter Four: Blessing-Based Love (Agapē) as a Heuristic Key to Understanding Effective Reconciliation Practices; Part II: Religions and Peace and Conflict Studies; Chapter Five: Catholic Peacemaking; Chapter Six: Evangelical Women and Transformative Peacebuilding; Chapter Seven: Judaism and the Path to Peace.

The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict provides crucial and contemporary information about antagonism and reconciliation within both the public and private realms from violence and nonviolence toward the aged population to youth violence. Reflecting upon current turmoil, this work represents essential reading both for students and scholars working in the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, and for those seeking to explore alternatives to violence and share visions of social change

Feminist scholars and activists have historically been written out of peace research, despite their strong presence in the early stages of the field. In this article, we develop the concept of "wifesization" to illustrate the process through which feminist and feminized interventions have been reduced to appendages of the field, their contributions appropriated for its development but unworthy of mention as independent producers of knowledge. Wifesization has trickle-down effects, not just for knowledge production, but also for peacebuilding practice. We propose new feminist genealogies for peace research that challenge and redefine the narrow boundaries of the field, in the form of a patchwork quilt including early theorists, utopian writing, oral history, and indigenous knowledge production. Reflections draw on the authors' engagements with several archives rich in cultures and languages of peace, not reducible to a "single story." Recovering wifesized feminist contributions to peace research, our article offers a new way of constructing peace research canons that gives weight to long-standing, powerful, and plural feminist voices, in order to make peace scholarship more inclusive and ultimately richer.

Cultural Heritage and the Causes of Violent Conflict Causes -- Heritage and Ethnic / Identity Conflicts -- Heritage and Nation Building -- Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict -- Cultural Heritage, Peacemaking and Post-Conflict Societies -- Cultural Heritage and Peace -- Heritage and Conflict Memory -- Comparative practice and Environmental Peacebuilding.

"This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts. In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications to international relations theory. Although conflicts threaten the physical security of the parties involved, they also help settle existential questions about basic parameters of life, being, and identity, and thus over time become sources of ontological security. The prospect of peace, through the resolution or transformation of conflict, threatens to unsettle the stability and consistency of self-narratives, and their associated routines and habits at the individual, group, and state levels. The contributors argue two key points: 1) that ontological insecurity may set in motion political and social processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts; 2) that coping with peace anxieties necessitates the formulation of alternative self-narratives at the individual, societal, and state levels that re-situate the Self in relation to Other and to the world at large. Consequently, the book analyses the ways in which, and the conditions under which, conflict resolution induces ontological insecurity, and the different ways in which ontological insecurity has prevented the successful culmination of peace processes in different conflict contexts, including Cyprus, Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, social theory and IR in general"--