This article examines a concern that some programs engaging men in the prevention of violence against women use overly homogenized conceptions violence. In response, authors draw on their experience teaching men's North America and UK background peace studies to bring Johan Galtung’s influential conflict frameworks into men’s context. It is argued feminist-informed Galtungian approach can suppo...

Este artículo pretende analizar las principales características de la estrategia construcción paz desarrollada por Agencia Española Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) en marco del conflicto armado Colombia, centrándose manera particular, segunda década presente siglo. La metodología implementada se centra revisión los diferentes documentos, estrategias y planes directores coop...

Much of the quantitative conflict resolution literature focuses on peacemaking efforts aimed at resolving international or civil wars that involve state forces, while ignoring non-state between communal groups, rebel militias. This article aims to contribute filling this gap in research. I first put forward a typology conflicts, based two dimensions: (1) whether issues are local national; and (...

Abstract Contemporary peacekeeping operations carry out many disparate tasks, which has triggered a debate about “Christmas Tree mandates.” Did the UN Secretariat or Security Council drive this expansion? Using original data on nineteen missions, 1998–2014, article compares tasks recommended by to those mandated Council. It finds that two bodies expressed different preferences regarding nature,...

This article examines the political economy of Arab-Israeli peacemaking in first half 1990s, specifically multilateral working group on Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS). It focuses misplaced memorialization ACRS process as a lost opportunity for establishment nuclear weapons free zone (NWFZ) Middle East, which has resulted continuous “return” to policy discussions. The contends that ra...

At this period in the evolution of dispute resolution, mediation is in a unique time zone, similar to what Dickens described in a Tale of Two Cities, as the best and worst of times, the seasons of Light and Darkness. It is the best of times, the season of Light and a time of joy in honoring human connections, as mediation is widely embraced in the public and private sectors. From government age...

s the meaning and significance of a victim-offender mediation (VOM) prog . The authors conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with seven youth had recently participated in a VOM conference with the victims. Analys lying motivations for the offenders’ participation in the program, their em otential impact on the offenders for long-standing behavior change. Based o plications for future practi...

This chapter begins with a summary of a model, developed half a century ago, that distinguishes three qualitatively different processes of social influence: compliance, identification, and internalization. The model, originally geared to and experimentally tested in the context of persuasive communication, was subsequently applied to influence in the context of long-term relationships, includin...