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Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics & peace science.

The Nobel Peace Prize is to be presented this month. When it was announced that this year's winner was Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources & Wildlife, the reaction of the mainstream media was bewilderment The Economist was perhaps typical, asking "What does planting trees have to do with peace?" & then later answering its own question, "Ms. Maathai's work, though admirable, is only distantly related to the prevention of war". Adapted from the source document.

Peace is not an absence, but rather a visibly identifiable set of norms. This visualization can take place through internationally recognized signs such as the white flag and the blue helmet. These representations of norms are united in their ability to be distinguished from similar objects or signs through their use of colors. The identificatory use of color avoids confusion between parties embroiled in a conflict, making an organization or envoy stand out and creat- ing the expectation that they are encompassed by the specific norms of war- fare, which these colors make visible. Through establishing such "dumb signs" of peace, as Grotius put it, the colors of peace have, we argue, played a notable part in establishing customary international law. The aim of our con- tribution is to offer an illustrative chromatological analysis of how peace and its norms are made visible through objects and symbols which are not con- nected with peace beyond their coloring (e.g., emblems, flags, helmets, or war- zone vehicles). We show how certain colors, in their situated use, come to both symbolize and enact peace in terms of international politics.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Ambiguities in Local and Global Contexts -- Part I: Complexity and Ambiguity -- Chapter 2: Approaching Complexity in Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 3: Tolerance of Ambiguity -- Part II: New Photographies and Visual Ambiguities -- Chapter 4: The Crisis of Photojournalism and the Emergence of New Photographies -- Chapter 5: Visual Ambiguities: Controlling the Meaning of Images in a Digital and Interactive World -- Part III: Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 6: Introducing Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 7: Navigating Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 8: The Grids: Architectural Space and Panel-to-Panel Transitions -- Chapter 9: Interactivity and the Author-Audience Relationship -- Part IV: Leveraging Ambiguity for Peace -- Chapter 10: Embracing Difference: Learning from Bosnia? -- Chapter 11: Exploring the Surround, Appreciating Complexity -- Chapter 12: Active Looking: Images in Peace Mediation -- Chapter 13: Concluding Reflections: Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Ambiguity of Tolerance.