Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention. Elgar Handbooks in Political Science Series

This handbook consists of answers to questions of who can prevent conflict, how can they be prevented, and when is the time for addressing the prevention of different phases of conflict. After preparing a common conceptual frame for the chapters, the book proceeds to theoretical and empirical analyses on how women, academics, UN or great powers, and local and international agents can prevent conflicts. Then it will introduce prenegotiation, negotiation, mediation and conflict transformation as methods, and looks at how hegemonic masculine approaches, robust non-military, and military approaches and peace journalism manages to reduce organised violence. Finally, the book focuses on the timing of different ways to prevent the onset and escalation of conflict, and conflict relapse once violence had already ended.
The handbook offers a coherent collection of the latest wisdom, and new innovations on who, how and when can we address the problems of organised violence.