Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies - Responses to Ethnic Violence

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Oberschall was educated at Harvard and earned a PhD in sociology at Columbia in 1962. He has taught at UCLA, Yale and since 1980 at the University of North Carolina, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a New Century Scholar in the Fulbright program. He has taught and researched in East and Central Africa, the People's Republic of China, and Germany, France and Hungary, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland. Among his books are Social Conflict and Social Movements (1973) and Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities (1993). Since the late 1980s, he has studied, lectured and written on conflict and conflict management in divided societies. Klappentext This integrated analysis of conflict and conciliation in protracted insurgency and civil war in societies divided on ethnicity, language and nationality, combines exposition of conflict management theory with detailed examples and case studies on the Northern Ireland peace process, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Bosnian war, and others. Zusammenfassung This integrated analysis of conflict and conciliation in protracted insurgency and civil war in societies divided on ethnicity, language and nationality, combines exposition of conflict management theory with detailed examples and case studies on the Northern Ireland peace process, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Bosnian war, and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict 2. Insurgency, Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Laws of War 3. Peace Intervention 4. War and Peace in Bosnia 5. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process 6. The Peace Process in Northern Ireland 7. Peace Building

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Oberschall, Anthony (University of North Carolina Oberschall, Oberschall Anthony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2007
• EAN: 9780415411608
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41160-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution