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Hearing Peace - Music, Sound And Notes In Peace Education

by Dieter Senghaas

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 value-retaining music of the past five centuries.- A unique book on peace education- For teachers and students in peace research and in music studies- Written by one of the co-founders of peace research in Germany- A key background book for peace concerts- A musical appeal for peace
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Simon Dalby: A Pioneer In International Relations - Key Contributions On Critical Geopolitics, Environmental Security And The Anthropocene

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 <p>This book profiles Simon Dalby’s academic contributions in the fields of critical geopolitics, environmental security and the intersection of international relations and the Anthropocene. It includes reprints of key essays that highlight innovations in critical thought at the intersections between geopolitics, environment and security.</p><p>Starting with an analysis of American reconstructions of the Soviet threat in the 1970s, an early contribution to the emerging field of critical geopolitics, subsequent papers focus on the emergent formulations of environmental security in the aftermath of the Cold War and the environmental costs of globalization. Focusing on the implicit geographical framing in discourses of globalization offered a critique that extended the ambit of critical geopolitics to grapple with the issues of environmental security and the rising concern with climate change as well as the political identities invoked in that debate.</p><p>In the aftermath of 9/11, similar arguments about contextualization applied to the American global war on terror and the revival of discussions of empire and its geographies, both in arguments for invading Iraq, as well as the wider discussions in policy discourse and popular culture. Simultaneously, the emergence of earth system science and the concept of the Anthropocene offered another way to highlight the dangers of fossil fueled economic activities. The necessity of fundamentally rethinking the premises of security policy in light of this recontextualization is emphasized in more recent contributions on climate security and the current ecological crisis.</p><ul><li>Critical geopolitics</li><li>Environmental security</li><li>Global war on terror</li><li>Firepower in the Anthropocene</li></ul>
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John W. Burton: A Pioneer In Conflict Analysis And Resolution - Key Contributions On International Relations, Peace Theory, World Society, And Human Needs

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 He was key to the foundation of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 1964 and of the Conflict Research Society in the UK, because he thought that words and ideas were not enough: there needed to be instrumentsof change.
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John W. Burton: A Pioneer In Conflict Analysis And Resolution - Key Contributions On International Relations, Peace Theory, World Society, And Human Needs

~~198,09€~~ 178,28€ 10% OFF

 He was key to the foundation of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 1964 and of the Conflict Research Society in the UK, because he thought that words and ideas were not enough: there needed to be instrumentsof change.
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Georg Picht: A Pioneer In Philosophy, Politics And The Arts

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 Aimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical philosophy and philosophy of religion.
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Raimo Vayrynen: A Pioneer In International Relations, Scholarship And Policy-Making - With A Foreword By Olli Rehn And A Preface By Allan Rosas

by Raimo Väyrynen

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 This book provides a broad overview of Professor Raimo Väyrynen’s academic work, his role in international research organizations, and his contributions to policy debates. It offers an interesting review of important political issues during the time span of half a century, from disarmament in Europe to the changing relationship between state sovereignty and transnational forces. Väyrynen has dealt with the changing agenda of peace and international relations, security and the arms race, and the world economy. This book provides comprehensive analyses of the regional and systemic structure of international relations, with the emphasis on conflicts and warfare between nations. It argues that while states, even smaller ones, still matter, transnational issues are increasingly important. Taking a historical perspective, the articles suggest that large-scale violence and arms races have been recurrent and cyclical phenomena in international relations. These events reflect the deep-seated inequalities in the political and economic systems which, moreover, vary considerably between regions. The publication is important reading for any researcher as well as students, policy-makers and the science-oriented public at large. <p></p><p>• Traces the changing agenda of international relations from disarmament and the world economy to the changing relationship between state sovereignty and transnational forces.</p><p>• Provides analyses of the regional and systemic structure in international relations, with the emphasis on conflicts and warfare.</p><p>• Argues that large-scale violence and the arms race have been recurrent and cyclical phenomena in international relations.</p><p>• Reviews important political issues from peace and conflict in Europe to the changing power relationship in the world.</p><br>
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Abdul Aziz Said: A Pioneer In Peace, Intercultural Dialogue, And Cooperative Global Politics - With A Foreword By Mohammed Abu-Nimer And Prefaces By Nathan C. Funk And Meena Sharify-Funk

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 <div><div><div>Known to many as American University’s "peace legend," Abdul Aziz Said (1930-2021)</div><div>led an academic career spanning nearly sixty years. Always a forward-looking thinker,</div><div>Said consistently sought to be among the first to grapple with the leading-edge issues of</div><div>his day, from decolonization and turbulent social change in developing countries to the</div><div>influence of multinational corporations, the normative priority of human rights, cultural</div><div>aspects of conflict resolution, and the promotion of Islamic-Western understanding.</div><div>Taken together, his extensive writings, innovative pedagogy, and practical pursuits offer</div><div>a model for engaged scholarship, characterized by dynamic use of the platform provided</div><div>by a university career to advance international peace, intercultural dialogue, and social</div><div>justice as well as a spiritual ethic emphasizing unity and connectedness among people</div>from diverse cultural, religious, and racial backgrounds.</div><div><br></div><div>• Abdul Aziz Said has been an innovator in international relations and peace</div><div>studies;</div><div>• Born in Syria, he completed his higher education in the United States and went</div><div>on to teach multiple generations of international affairs students;</div><div>• He was a leading scholar focusing on global peace as well as Islam and peace;</div><div>• His writings address salient global issues from the 1950s to the first decades of</div><div>the twenty-first century.</div></div></div>
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Alva Myrdal: A Pioneer In Nuclear Disarmament

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 This book is about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the work pursued by Alva Myrdal, a pioneering social activist, diplomat, cabinet minister, and disarmament negotiator.
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Harvey Starr: Pioneer In The Study Of Conflict Processes And International Relations

by Harvey Starr

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 <div>This book sets out, through Starr’s personal story, his interest in how the ideas of "intellectual trajectories" and "political memories" could be incorporated into intellectual autobiography, thus exploring how the personal lives of individual academics intersected with their professional interests. By following the development of his approach to research, interdisciplinarity, the logic of inquiry, and the opportunity and willingness framework scholars and researchers will see how his groundbreaking research in Conflict Processes and International Relations Theory developed and were interlinked (especially diffusion, geography and spatiality; the democratic peace and integration; decision making). In addition, graduate students and junior faculty should find useful hints about how to navigate their way through the complexities of becoming both a professional and successful academic and scholar.</div><div><br></div><div>•This book provides the most complete treatment of the workand contributions of Harvey Starr, a former President of the International Studies Association. </div><div><br></div><div>•Important for contemporary students of international relations, and their understanding of IR theory and methods.</div><div><br></div><div>•Demonstrates an eclectic linking of theoretical, logical, and empirical approaches to the study of IR—providing a critical logic of inquiry to do research.</div><div><br></div><div>•Provides insights and blueprints for how to develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship, highlighting geography and social-psychology.</div><div><br></div><div>•Affords graduate students and recent Ph.D.s guidance in the development of research, becoming a professional, and the choices to be made in one’s academic career.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer In Making Peace Researchable - With A Foreword By Jan Eliasson And A Preface By Raimo Väyrynen

by Peter Wallensteen

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 <p>This book provides a broad overview of what peace research is all about by an author who has been involved in the field for more than half a century. Among other things it gives a unique review of how peace research emerged in Sweden as the author was a key actor in the most crucial events during this formative period. The book also portrays how the discipline has grown from an initial focus on "alternatives to war" to the comprehensive study of the many dimensions of a "lasting and positive peace". </p><p>The author''s own work covers causes of war, sanctions, conflict resolution, conflict data, mediation, and quality peace. They demonstrate the range of topics that have to be understood for a peace with quality. This is exemplified by some of the author''s writings specifically selected for this volume plus a few ones original to it. Some accounts of the author''s involvements in actual peace processes in the 1990s are also included. </p><p>This publication offers a substantial contribution to understanding the evolution of peace research as a field and is an important reading for scholars, policy makers, journalists, students and any aspiring peace researcher as well as for the public at large.</p><p>• Peter Wallensteen is a global pioneer of peace research due to his involvement in the creation of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University ¬- a major center in the field. He served as Head of Department from 1972 to 1999.</p><p>•Peter Wallensteen set up and directed the well-known Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP, the global resource for the study of armed conflicts and peace negotiations, 1978-2015.</p><p>• Peter Wallensteen was the first holder of the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, 1985-2012.</p><p>• He was also the first holder of the position as the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2006-2018.</p><div><br></div>
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Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy And Influence In The Social Sciences

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 <div><div><div>This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their consequences, mathematical models, the size distribution of wars, and geographical features of conflict. It contains brief bibliographies of his main publications and of articles and books written about Richardson and his work and discusses his continuing influence in peace research and international relations as well as his attitude to the ethical responsibilities of a scientist. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars. This book includes 11 chapters written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, Dina A Zinnes, Ron Smith, Paul F Diehl, Kelly Kadera, Mark Crescenzi, Michael D Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils B Weidmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Niall MacKay, Aaron Clauset, Michael Spagat and Stijn van Weezel.</div><div><br></div><div>Lewis F Richardson occupied an important position in two academic fields as different as meteorology and peace research, with academic prizes awarded in both disciplines.</div><div><br></div><div>In peace research, he pioneered the use of mathematical models and the meticulous compilation of databases for empirical research.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As a quaker and pacifist, he refused to work in preparations for war, paid a heavy prize in terms of his career, and (at least in the social sciences) was fully recognized as a pioneering scholar only posthumously with the publication of two major books.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Lewis Fry Richardson is one of the 20th century’s greatest but least appreciated thinkers—a creative physicist, psychologist, meteorologist, applied mathematician, historian, pacifist, statistician, and witty stylist. If you’ve heard of weather prediction, chaos,fractals, cliometrics, peace science, big data, thick tails, or black swans, then you have benefited from Richardson’s prescience in bringing unruly phenomena into the ambit of scientific understanding. Richardson’s ideas continue to be relevant today, and this collection is a superb retrospective on this brilliant and lovable man.</div><div><br></div><div>Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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Luc Reychler: A Pioneer In Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture

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 <div>This book provides a unique personal perspective on the field of peace research. It not only highlights Luc Reychler’s significant contributions to the theory and praxis of sustainable peacebuilding, but also offers important reflections on the evolution of peace research as an independent discipline. The central concept of this book - and of Reychler’s academic career, for that matter - is sustainable peacebuilding architecture. Reychler introduced this concept in order to draw attention to the architectural principles and considerations that have to be addressed in sustainable peacebuilding processes. Reychler’s work on sustainable peacebuilding architecture has been groundbreaking and has not lost any of its relevance in the twenty-first century. By bringing together Reychler’s seminal texts on sustainable peacebuilding architecture, the current book aims to offer academics, students and policymakers an essential guide to understanding, studying and applying this crucial concept.</div><div><br></div><div>•Provides a unique personal view of the development of peace research</div><div>•Lists the necessary building blocks for sustainable peacebuilding</div><div>•Offers tools for monitoring and evaluating interventions</div><div>•Discusses the scientific nature and often provocative findings of peace research </div><div>•Discusses ten lessons learned and the future (Peace Research III) </div><div><br></div>
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Earth At Risk In The 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, And Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, And Migration - With A Foreword By Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser And A Preface By Hans Günter Brauch

by Ursula Oswald Spring

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 <p><i>Earth at Risk in the 21st Century</i> offers critical interdisciplinary reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the environment, all of which are threatened by climate change, with women and children affected most. Deep-rooted gender discrimination is also a result of the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water, biota and air. In the Anthropocene, the management of human society and global resources has become unsustainable and has created multiple conflicts by increasing survival threats primarily for poor people in the Global South. Alternative approaches to peace and security, focusing from bottom-up on an engendered peace with sustainability, may help society and the environment to be managed in the highly fragile natural conditions of a ‘hothouse Earth’. Thus, the book explores systemic alternatives based on indigenous wisdom, gift economy and the economy of solidarity, in which an alternative cosmovision fosters mutual care between humankind and nature.</p><p>•Special analysis of risks to the survival of humankind in the 21st century.<br></p><p>•Interdisciplinary studies on peace, security, gender and environment related to global environmental and climate change.</p><p>•Critical reflections on gender relations, peace, security, migration and the environment</p><p>•Systematic analysis of food, water, health, energy security and its nexus.</p><p>•Alternative proposals from the Global South with indigenous wisdom for saving Mother Earth.</p><div><br></div>
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Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer In The Theory Of International Relations - With A Preface By Charles Lewis Taylor And Bruce M. Russett

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 Topics on which Karl Deutsch wrote prolifically included nationalism, social communication, European integration, cybernetics, war & peace, arms control, social cybernetics, general systems analysis, and global modeling.
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I William Zartman: A Pioneer In Conflict Management And Area Studies - Essays On Contention And Governance

by I. William Zartman

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 <div>The work draws on wide-ranging area analysis to develop inductively new concepts and approaches for further use in explanation and application. Divided into two parts, it begins with analysis of revolution and socio-political unrest, followed by models of ethnic conflict and elite circulation in developing societies. It presents the cultural dialectic present in Islam. It then lays out the patterns of mediation and negotiation in managing and resolving conflict, culminating with an analysis of intractables. Part two on governance lays out the nature of world order, cooperation, and conciliation. It then turns to the challenges of identity, ideology, and interest, with some specific attention to the nature of borders and borderlands, and focuses on governance as conflict management and as negotiation.</div><div> </div><div>- This book encompasses a new analysis of a neglected part of International Relation, the prevention and management of conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>- The book confronts sources and patterns of contentious politics with systems and methods of governance.</div><div><br></div><div>- The book lays out a comprehensive conceptualization of the process of conflict management and negotiation, including questions of when as well as how.</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div>
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Exploring Betty A. Reardon'S Perspective On Peace Education - Looking Back, Looking Forward

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 This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardonâ€™s peace education theory and intellectual legacy. The guiding question throughout the book is: How can her foundational work be used to advance the theory and practice of peace education?
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Alexander L. George: A Pioneer In Political And Social Sciences - With A Foreword By Dan Caldwell

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 <div>Alexander L. George was one of the most productive and respected political scientists</div><div>of the late twentieth century. He and his wife, Juliette George, wrote one of the first</div><div>psychobiographies, and Professor George went on to write seminal articles and books</div><div>focusing on political psychology, the operational code, foreign policy decisionmaking,</div><div>case study methodology, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, policy legitimacy, and bridging</div>the gap between the academic and policymaking communities. This book is the first<div>and only one to contain examples of the works across these fields written by Alexander</div><div>George and several of his collaborators.</div><div><br></div><div>• This is a collection of Alexander L. George''s works from the major fields to which</div><div>he contributed.</div><div>• There are biographical essays by his wife and co-author (Juliette L. George), daughter</div><div>(Mary George Douglass), former student (Dan Caldwell), and professional colleague</div><div>(Janice Gross Stein).</div><div>• There are 25 photographs of Alexander L. George and his family which have not</div><div>previously been published.</div>
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Ursula Oswald Spring: Pioneer On Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food And Water - With A Foreword By Birgit Dechmann

by Ursula Oswald Spring

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 This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations.
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Paul Rogers: A Pioneer In Critical Security Analysis And Public Engagement - With A Foreword By Jenny Pearce

by Paul Rogers

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 <div><div>This book brings together a collection of writings over the past half century from Professor Paul Rogers. As a leading peace researcher he has gained an international reputation for the critical, independent and rigorous analysis of international security and the underlying causes of global conflict. His work on the responses to 9/11 and the continuing failure of the war on terror, in particular, has shown prescience that has attracted widespread attention. Moreover, he has coupled his academic analysis with a determination to communicate widely beyond the university environment. With many thousands of radio and television interviews, hundreds of public lectures and a world-wide following for his web publishing, this extramural engagement consistently seeks to raise the level of public debate on international security issues.</div><br></div><div>- Provides a radically different perspective on global security, based on 50 years ofanalysis</div><div>- Uniquely integrates economic, environmental and security analysis into a single overview<br></div><div>- Cogently demonstrates the urgent need to rethink our entire approach to global security<br></div><div><br></div>
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Galia Golan: An Academic Pioneer On The Soviet Union, Peace And Conflict Studies, And A Peace And Feminist Activist - With A Foreword By William Zartman And A Preface By George Breslauer

by Galia Golan

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 <div><br></div><div>This is an autobiography of an unusual and versatile woman, focusing on her academic development and achievements as well as her international activism. In addition to a discussion of the origins and path of the author''s academic work and activism (for peace and for women''s rights), that deals with the author''s work in US intelligence and immigration to Israel in the 1960s, the volume includes ground-breaking articles from the different, often controversial areas of her academic specializations (Czechoslovak communism, Soviet foreign policy; peace studies, the Arab-Israeli conflict; women''s rights). The volume also includes photos of the author at work and in action.</div><div><br></div><div>- The book offers an inside look at a lifetime of courageous activities and ground breaking intellectual pursuits of a woman who was a leader in her academic field and in the struggle for peace and for women''s rights. </div><div>- The includedtexts themselves shed light on important topics, both past and present, including the Israeli-Arab Conflict and also the issue of women and peace.<br></div><div><br></div>
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Nico Stehr: Pioneer In The Theory Of Society And Knowledge

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 Original concepts, such as his groundbreaking studies on the Knowledge Society, are introduced as the volume traces Stehr's pursuit of social scientific research as a source of practical knowledge for modern society.The book comprises three parts devoted to the many facets and the remarkable range of Nico Stehr's oeuvre.
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Elise Boulding: Writings On Peace Research, Peacemaking, And The Future

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 She was a co-founder of the International Peace Research Association (1964), the Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (1970), and various peace and women's issues-related committees and working groups of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.
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Elise Boulding: A Pioneer In Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies And The Family - From A Quaker Perspective

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 Known as the "matriarch" of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields of peace education, future studies, feminism, and sociology of the family, and as a prominent leader in the peace movement and the Society of Friends.
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Richard Ned Lebow: A Pioneer In International Relations Theory, History, Political Philosophy And Psychology

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 He is author, coauthor, or editor of 34 books and almost 250 peer reviewed articles.Contributors to the book are: Simon Reich - Mervyn Frost - Janice Gross Stein - Stefano Guzzini - Markus Kornprobst - Harald Muller - Christian Wendt - Robert English.
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