ISBN:
9780415844819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (269 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Conflict, Peace, Security and Development : Theories and Methodologies
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence, security peace and development. Two dominant contemporary approaches are selected for debate on methodologies and ethical choices: rational choice and identity-based theorizing. The chapters are arranged as dialogues around contendin
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Conflict, peace, security and development: theories and methodologies; PART I The state of the fields; 2 Peace, conflict, and violence; 3 Humanitarian assistance and new humanitarianism: some old questions; 4 The political sociology of state-building: looking beyond Weber; PART II Economies for war and peace; 5 Conflict, growth and (under)development; 6 Offshore oil in Ghana: potentials for conflict and development
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Spaces of memory and intervention: post-conflict reconstruction in El Salado, ColombiaPART III Identity politics of conflicts; 8 Identity politics of wars: theorising, policy and intervention; 9 'As if there were two Rwandas': polarised research agendas in post-genocide Rwanda; 10 Crafting symbolic geographies in modern Turkey: Kurdish assimilation and the politics of (re)naming; 11 Law as an instrument of justice? Victim reparations at the International Criminal Court; PART IV Methods and methodologies; 12 Sri Lanka's civil war: what kind of methodologies for identity conflict?
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Mathematical modelling and 'ethnic conflict' in Colombia: the impact of the unit and the level of analysis14 Comparing data sets: understanding conceptual differences in quantitative conflict studies; Conclusion; 15 Theorising the politics of judgment; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
