Stealth Conflicts
Stealth Conflicts

Author: Virgil Hawkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1351897942

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Many of the world's deadliest conflicts are largely ignored - becoming off-the-radar 'stealth conflicts'. How can this be possible in a world with unprecedented levels of access to information, and unprecedented levels of attention and resources being devoted to foreign affairs? Virgil Hawkins reveals and explains the highly distorted and assimilated responses to foreign conflicts by major actors in the world. He examines the agenda-setting processes of policy makers, the media, the public and academics in relation to foreign conflicts. Using a vast array of detailed examples, he systematically unravels the internal dynamics and external influences experienced by these actors, and in so doing he brings the academic agenda into the loop of the conflict response agenda-setting process for the first time. With agenda-setting research tending to focus on the question of why a response to a particular event or issue occurred, this book furthers research by focusing equally on why a response did not occur. The volume is critically important in understanding why actors do and do not respond to foreign conflicts.

Coping with Surprise in Great Power Conflicts
Coping with Surprise in Great Power Conflicts

Author: Mark F. Cancian

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-03-23

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1442280727

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Surprise has always been an element of warfare, but the return of great power competition—and the high-level threat that it poses—gives urgency to thinking about surprise now. Because the future is highly uncertain, and great powers have not fought each other for over 70 years, surprise is highly likely in a future great power conflict. This study, therefore, examines potential surprises in a great power conflict, particularly in a conflict’s initial stages when the interaction of adversaries’ technologies, prewar plans, and military doctrines first becomes manifest. It is not an attempt to project the future. Rather, it seeks to do the opposite: explore the range of possible future conflicts to see where surprises might lurk.

EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts
EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts

Author: Nicu Popescu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-12-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1136851895

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This book examines EU intervention and non-intervention in conflict resolution, with a specific focus on the EU’s role in the post-soviet conflicts of Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Population, Resources, and Conflict
Population, Resources, and Conflict

Author: Jacqueline Langwith

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 0737754761

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Compelling essays, informative sidebars, and detailed maps help readers to explore the range of current and impending challenges that the planet faces as a result of global warming. Readers will explore population, resources, and conflict from a variety of expert perspectives. Readers will study the link between population dynamics and resources. They will assess the population's impact on climate change. Vulnerable populations are explained. The last chapter conveys the essential goal, which is how we should reduce the harmful human imprint on the natural world.

A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict
A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict

Author: Jake Lynch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1136221891

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A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict constructs an argument from first principles to identify what constitutes good journalism. It explores and synthesises key concepts from political and communication theory to delineate the role of journalism in public spheres. And it shows how these concepts relate to ideas from peace research, in the form of Peace Journalism. Thinkers whose contributions are examined along the way include Michel Foucault, Johan Galtung, John Paul Lederach, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manuel Castells and Jurgen Habermas. The book argues for a critical realist approach, considering critiques of ‘correspondence’ theories of representation to propose an innovative conceptualisation of journalistic epistemology in which ‘social truths’ can be identified as the basis for the journalistic remit of factual reporting. If the world cannot be accessed as it is, then it can be assembled as agreed – so long as consensus on important meanings is kept under constant review. These propositions are tested by extensive fieldwork in four countries: Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico.

Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention
Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention

Author: Timo Kivimäki

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 180392084X

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The Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention is a cohesive and comparative analysis of the ways in which organised violence is combatted. Renowned experts dissect the complex problem of conflict prevention by investigating its three main aspects: agency, methods and timing.

The Roots of African Conflicts
The Roots of African Conflicts

Author: Alfred G. Nhema

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0821418092

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This work, along with 'The Resolution of African Conflicts', clearly demonstrates the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies.

State of the Continent
State of the Continent

Author: M. Fobanjong

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2018-12-29

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 194287636X

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What precisely is the state of the African continent today? Depending on ones perspective, the answer may either dwell on Africas recent economic and political accomplishments or focus on the long-standing single-story of failure, disaster and eternal dictatorships. This book provides a nuanced, forceful and balanced assessment of Africas political and economic performance since independence. While acknowledging Africas tragic pitfalls, dating to the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism, State of the Continent skillfully argues that theories associated with the dependency school are no longer enough to explain the continents failures in governance and economic performance. For a continent so richly blessed and endowed with both human and material resources, the blame for Africas lackluster performance falls squarely on its leadership. To get things right, Nkrumahs vision of the primacy of the political kingdom must be prioritized whereupon economic gains shall predictably, follow. In lucid and persuasive prose, this volume is an ideal book for scholars as well as students of international studies and African politics.

Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Media, Diaspora and Conflict

Author: Ola Ogunyemi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3319566423

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This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capacity of diasporic media to escalate or deescalate conflicts and to serve as a source of information for their audiences in a competitive and fragmented media landscape. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters examine how the diasporic media projects the constructive and destructive outcomes of conflicts to their particularistic audiences within the global public sphere. The result is a volume that makes an important contribution to scholarship by offering critical engagements and analyzing how the diasporic media communicates information and facilitates dialogue between conflicting parties, while adding to new avenues of empirical case studies and theory development in comprehending the media coverage of conflict.

Communication and Peace
Communication and Peace

Author: Julia Hoffmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1317680472

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This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, communication and the media are widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although there has been significant academic attention on the relationship between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links between communication and conflict, rather than on communication and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding – as opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention. This volume will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, media and communication studies, security studies and IR in general.