The skyrocketing violence in Central America calls upon scholars to examine the needed conditions for peace. This article challenges assumption that absence of among factions conflict is chief goal around which peacemaking efforts should operate. Based on ethnographic research with women relatives male gang members and civil war veterans El Salvador, I argue 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords ended ...

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive well in twenty-first century. Eugene England's life, which ended just weeks before those attacks, was very much engaged struggle. Although England not politician or even especially political his opinions, he sought life committed to Christian discipleship as intellectual freedom...

Protracted, intractable conflicts are a form of human interaction that may very well determine our capacity to survive as a species. Their paradoxical structure, depth of meaning, intense emotional core, complexity, and malignancy are self-sustaining and are often experienced as overwhelming to the parties and third parties alike. The literature in this area presents a variety of singular and o...

Welcome to the Policy Studies Yearbook Annual Review 2022–23, which I am proud announce that, from this year onward, is be published as an annual special issue of Politics & (P&P). Pioneered by P&P's longtime sister journal, Journal (PSJ), over a decade ago, unique twin-pronged project designed to: first, connect large, international, and multidisciplinary body policy scholars practitioners via...

The Balkan Region of Southeastern Europe has long suffered from political instability and armed conflict. Among other causes, the Balkan conflict is rooted in ethnic tensions exacerbated by competition for scarce resources such as land. Food insecurity, one outgrowth of this tension, is inextricably linked to political stability. The U.S. Country Paper presented at the World Food Summit in Rome...

This article challenges the presumption that American commitment to greater Indo-Pacific region has positive effects on regional stability. It argues degree which America's strategic choices in Asia embrittle or consolidate peace depends how they intersect with relational configurations of order. An accommodative strategy restraint and mutual threat reduction offers greatest stability least ris...

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on Journal blog. Conservation aims to improve ecological outcomes. The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in December 2022 at 15th Convention Biological Diversity Conference of Parties (COP15) co-hosted by China and Canada, has potential change trajectory global biodiversity loss (https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd...

An analysis of twenty pairs Taiwanese and mainland Chinese timelines cross-Strait relations demonstrates a highly dynamic way in which the two societies' conflict memories have evolved over decades. These were developed context weeklong Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) dialogues that author facilitated. A cohort civil society delegates from both sides Strait, each with five persons, partic...