Wallensteen's updated version of Understanding Conflict Resolution keeps true to its form of providing students and scholars a way to think about managing conflicts from a systematic perspective. He develops not only the historical roots of the study of conflict management, but also provides the contemporary stetting where these core ideas apply. Knowing the development of the field also allows us to view the intellectual progress we have made over 50+ years, progress which he has been so much a part of. A book like this makes teaching a course in conflict management easy because the ideas and material are systematically organized and presented.
Understanding Conflict Resolution is valuable as a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the topic and as a volume that encapsulates the wisdom and experience of one of peace research’s most influential figures. It will assist instructors to transmit the progress and values of scholarly research into conflict resolution to a new generation of students in the field.
Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, since 2012. He held the Dag Hammarskjld Chair of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (19852012). He is also the Richard G. Starmann, Senior Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (since 2006). He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and the Special Program on International Targeted Sanctions (SPITS). His Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Sage, earlier edition, available also in an Arabic translation) is used in teaching around the world. His book Peace Research: Theory and Practice (Routledge 2011) demonstrates his range of research interests and has recently been translated into Chinese. Recently he also edited together with Ambassador Anders Bjurner Regional Organizations and Peacemaking: Challengers to the UN? (Routledge 2015). In 2010, he and Isak Svensson published The Go-Between (United States Institute of Peace Press), a study of mediation efforts by the renowned Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson. Wallensteen has published widely on conflict trends, conflict resolution, mediation, prevention, sanctions and the United Nations.
PART 1: THE PROBLEM AND HOW TO APPROACH IT Chapter 1: Understanding Conflict Resolution Chapter 2: Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements Chapter 3: Approaching Conflict Resolution Chapter 4: Analysing Conflict Resolution PART 2: BASICS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION Chapter 5: The Resolution of Conflicts between States Chapter 6: Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars Chapter 7: Conflict Resolution in State Formation Conflicts PART 3: COMPLEXITIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION Chapter 8: Conflict Complexes and Conflict Resolution Chapter 9: International Organsations in Conflict Resolution Chapter 10: Coercion and Enforcement Chapter 11: Prevention and Peacebuilding Chapter 12: Conflict Resolution in the 2010s