ISBN:
9780415749121
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (221 p)
Series Statement:
PRIO New Security Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security : Peace Anxieties
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts. In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications to international relations theory. Although conflicts threaten the physical security of the parties involved, they also help settle existential questions about basic parameters of life, being, and identity, and thus over time become sources of ontological security. The prospect of peace, through the r
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Ontological (in)security and peace anxieties: a framework for conflict resolution; Part I Ontological (in)security in protracted conflicts; 2 Ontological security and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: between unstable conflict and conflict in resolution; 3 The Kurdish Issue and levels of ontological security; 4 Ethnic nationalism and the production of ontological security in Cyprus; Part II Ontological (in)security in the process of conflict resolution
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Ontological (in)security and violent peace in Northern Ireland6 Ontological (in)security of 'included' citizens: the case of early Republican Turkey (1923-1946); Part III Peace and ontological security; 7 Ontological (in)security after peace: the case of the Åland Islands; 8 The ontological significance of Karelia: Finland's reconciliation with losing the promised land; 9 Decolonizing security and peace: mono-epistemology versus peace formation; Conclusion; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
