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Conflict is inevitable. Violence is not. Peacebuilding is an essential element and precondition for transforming war-ridden and violent societies towards constructive ways of conflict resolution. Peacebuilding requires processes, attitudes and capabilities on the individual, societal and institutional level. This volume approaches the issues from a special perspective. It presents the essence of lectures given at University of Hamburg by experts from different academic fields – political science, psychology, theology, sociology, anthropology and the arts. The lectures aimed at enhancing the understanding of students in the areas of conflict dynamics, peace processes and preventive work based on case studies, like the German peace movement in the 1980s, the peace process in Northern Ireland, trauma rehabilitation work with former child soldiers and the concept and practice of restorative justice, to name a few. The volume thus goes beyond an understanding of peacebuilding which focusses on nation and institution building.

Between 1643 and 1648, the cities of Münster and Osnabrück became the stage for major pan-European negotiations. In terms of both space and time, a dynamic environment emerged where the discursive forms of diplomacy were practiced and reconfigured. The essays in this volume address the dynamics of the peace congress that led to the Peace of Westphalia.

Verlagsinfo: Es gilt weithin als unzweifelhaft, dass das Deutsche Reich einen wesentlichen Anteil am Ausbruch des Weltkriegs 1914 hatte, dass es während des vierjährigen blutigen Ringens sehr expansive Ziele verfolgte und im Falle eines Sieges seinen Gegnern einen harten Frieden auferlegt hätte. Dass es sich tatsächlich anders verhielt, zeigt diese Studie. (...) Während dieses Zeitraums waren England und Frankreich nie zu einem Verständigungsfrieden bereit, wohl aber Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn.