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. Effectively fills a long-standing void and will no doubt be hailed as a much-needed new addition to the literature. This text very much exemplifies the strength of Ho-Won Jeong as a theorist and one of the more prolific writers in the larger peace and conflict studies field. the final three chapters on 'De-escalation Dynamics' (which includes a brief section on third party intervention), on 'Conciliation Strategies, ' and especially the one on 'Ending Conflict, ' which provides a range of outcomes beyond the usual focus on third party intervention (read mediation) epitomizes the value of thi.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Arenas of conflict; 1 Intrapersonal conflict; 2 Sex differences in mind; 3 Why apes and humans kill; 4 The roots of warfare; 5 Conflict in the Middle East; 6 Observing conflict; 7 Conflict and labour; 8 Life in a violent universe; Notes on the contributors; Index.

Narrative/s in Conflict presents the proceedings of an international workshop, held at the Trinity Long Room Hub Dublin in 2013, to a wider audience. This was a cross-disciplinary cooperation between the comparative research network 'Broken Narratives' (University of Vienna), the research strand 'Identities in Transformation' (Trinity College Dublin) and the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen. What has brought this informal network together is its credo that theories of narrative should be regarded as an integral part of cultural analysis. Choosing exemplary case studies from early Habsburg days up to the the wars and genocides of the 20th century and the post-9/11 'War on terror', our volume tries to analyze the relation between representation and conflict, i.e. between narrative constructions, social/historical processes, and cultural agon. Here it is crucial to state that narratives do not simply and passively 'mirror' conflicts as the conventional 'realistic' paradigm suggests; they rather provide a symbolic, sense-making matrix, and even a performative dimension. It even can be said that in many cases, narratives make conflicts.