Understanding Conflict Resolution

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Understanding Conflict Resolution, the updated sixth edition, is a contemporary, applied, and critical Conflict Resolution textbook designed as the perfect guide for students studying Security and Peace and Conflict studies. With an emphasis on peace agreements between and with states and this book relies on data provided by the well-known Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), which Wallensteen founded and now has become a standard source for systematic information on conflicts, wars and peace. This new edition includes: a contemporary focus that reflects on the nature of political conflict today while retaining the extensive historical work on liberal peacebuilding stronger, more engaging starts to each chapter that will include an introduction, case, and key point summaries a greater utilisation of the UCDP data throughout. An essential introductory text that provides the foundation needed for studies in Conflict Resolution. Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA.