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"This wide-ranging multidisciplinary collection highlights the centrality of representations for the study of peace and conflict. Its analysis covers topics as diverse as British soldiers' photographic records, social identity in Northern Ireland; memory work; the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission; the London memorial to the Women of World War II and protest songs in the popular music charts. These studies are written by an array of internationally influential authors, as well as emerging scholars, from a range of social science and humanities disciplines including cultural studies; geography; history; linguistics; media studies; peace studies; religious studies and social psychology. This rich and varied volume constitutes a timely engagement with matters pertaining to how peace and conflict are represented in many unique forms. --

Exit strategies and state building / Richard Caplan -- Exit and colonial administrations / John Darwin -- Senegal / Anthony Chafer -- Indonesia / Hendrik Spruyt -- Exit and peace support operations / William J. Durch -- Sierra Leone / A. Sarjoh Bah -- Haiti / Johanna Mendelson Forman -- Exit and international administrations / Dominik Zaum -- Kosovo / Ben Crampton -- East Timor / Anthony Goldstone -- Exit and military occupations / Gregory H. Fox -- Gaza / Joel Peters -- Iraq / Toby Dodge -- Competing normative visions of exit / Ralph Wilde -- The political economy of exit / Michael Pugh -- After exit: the UN peacebuilding architecture / Richard Ponzio -- Policy implications / Richard Caplan.

This book contributes to the field of peace education with examples in the disciplines of political science, communication, psychology, sociology, counseling, law and teacher training. It presents new information about peace education in higher education. Provided are concepts underlying, and examples of, conflict transformation across disciplines while it demonstrates how some of the strategies are adapted for use in professional practice. Ultimately, the book and its individual chapters support peace studies and professionals who specialize in conflict work. This text can be used in courses in any of the fields mentioned above, and in others where there is a goal of learning strategies for conflict transformation. The interdisciplinary presentation provides subject versatility while it illustrates the multiple dimensions and applications of peace education.

Whose justice? -- The basic standards of justice -- The wounds of political injustice -- Reconciliation as a concept of justice -- Is reconciliation fit for politics? -- Is religion fit for reconciliation? -- Reconciliation in the Jewish tradition -- Reconciliation in the Christian tradition -- Reconciliation in the Islamic tradition -- Four practices : building socially just institutions, acknowledgment, reparations, and apologies -- Punishment -- Forgiveness

Vol. 2: XVII, S. 379-873 : graph. Darst., Reg., Lit. S. [801]-850

"African states have become testing grounds for Western conflict-resolution experiments, particularly power-sharing agreements, supposedly intended to end deadly conflict, secure peace, and build democracy in divided societies. This volume examines the legal and political efficacy of transitional political power-sharing between democratically constituted governments and the African warlords, rebels, or junta that seek to violently unseat them. What role does law indicate for itself to play in informing, shaping, and regulating peace agreements? This book addresses this question and others through the prism of three West African case studies: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. It applies the Neo-Kadeshean Model of analysis and offers a framework for a 'Law on Power-sharing.' In a field dominated by political scientists, and drawing from ancient and contemporary international law, this book represents the first substantive legal critique of the law, practice, and politics of power sharing"--