Full Description
An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).
The contents of the 2016 edition are divided into three sections:
» Global Patterns and Trends provides an overview of recent advances in scholarly research on various aspects of conflict and peace, as well as chapters on armed conflict, violence against civilians, non-state armed actors, democracy and ethnic exclusion, terrorism, defense spending and arms production and procurement, peace agreements, state repression, foreign aid, and the results of the Peace & Conflict Instability Ledger, which ranks the status and progress of more than 160 countries based on their forecasted risk of future instability.
» Special Feature spotlights work on measuring micro-level welfare effects of exposure to conflict.
» Profiles has been enlarged to survey developments in instances of civil wars, peacekeeping missions, and international criminal justice proceedings that were active around the world during 2014.
Frequent visualizations of data in full-color, large-format tables, graphs, and maps bring the analysis to life and amplify crucial developments in real-world events and the latest findings in research.
The contributors include many leading scholars in the field from the US and Europe.
Contents
Contents
1. Introduction to Peace and Conflict 2016
David A. Backer, Ravi Bhavnani, and Paul K. Huth
Section I. Global Patterns and Trends
2. The Cutting Edge of Research on Peace and Conflict
Karsten Donnay and Ravi Bhavnani
3. Armed Conflict, 1946-2014
Håvard Strand and Halvard Buhaug
4. Patterns and Trends of the Geography of Conflict
Roudabeh Kishi, Clionadh Raleigh, and Andrew M. Linke
5. Violence against Civilians during Civil War
Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman, and Margareta Sollenberg
6. Non-State Actors in Civil War
David E. Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Idean Salehyan
7. Democracy, Ethnic Exclusion, and Civil Conflict: The Arab Spring Revolutions from a Global Comparative Perspective
Manuel Vogt, Nils-Christian Bormann, and Lars-Erik Cederman
8. Global Terrorism and the Deadliest Groups since 2001
Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan
9. Defense Spending, Arms Production and Transfers: The Political Economy of Defense in a Transitional Phase
Aude-Emmanuelle Fleurant and Yannick Quéau
10. Global Trends in the Implementation of Intrastate Peace Agreements
Jason Michael Quinn and Madhav Joshi
11. Why States Repress: Evaluating Global Patterns of Abuse with the Political Terror Scale
Reed M. Wood, Mark Gibney, and Peter Haschke
12. Foreign Aid and Conflict: What We Know and Need to Know
Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, and Caroline Bergeron
13. The Peace and Conflict Instability Ledger: Ranking States on Future Risks
David A. Backer and Paul K. Huth
Section II. Special Feature
14. New Developments in Measuring the Welfare Effects of Conflict Exposure at the Micro-Level
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, and Philip Verwimp
Section III. Profiles
15. Active Armed Conflicts in 2014
Margareta Sollenberg
16. United Nations Peacekeeping Missions Active in 2014
Deniz Cil
17. Criminal Justice for Conflict-Related Violations—Developments during 2014
Anupma Kulkarni
