Analyses violent conflict and its impact on local institutional and development processes. It shows how the behaviour of individuals helps us understand the complex dynamic links between conflict, violence and development.

Peacebuilding is explained by combining interpretive frameworks (paradigms) that have evolved from the subfields of international relations and comparative politics.

This book explores the resilience in urban neighborhoods affected by chronic conflict and violence, developing a new model for improving resilience policies. The neighborhood resilience approach is an inclusive form of building positive resilience, which recognizes that local communities possess valuable skills and experience of dealing with crises, and prioritizes the agency of local communities in the production of knowledge and developing practices. The book identifies and describes the repertoire of neighborhood resilience practices organized in four clusters: (1) addressing the structure of conflict; (2) increasing the effectiveness of external resources; (3) enhancing the community capacities; and (4) reflecting the dynamics of identity and power in neighborhoods. One of the key findings of the book is the nonlinear connections between structure and dynamics of conflict and neighborhood resilience practices represented in the Four Loops Model. The concentration on community-based practices addresses macro-level critiques of neo-liberalism in critical resilience studies and encourages rethinking the ways community-based indicators might operate in combination with existing macro indicators of resilience. The bottom-up indicators provide more specific details and essential localized experiences for improving resilience policies at the national level. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, resilience, urban studies, and US politics.

This series of reports highlights issues of food insecurity around the world. It presents statistics on rates and trends in malnutrition, child stunting, wasting, overweight and obesity, breastfeeding, and anaemia in women, showing that though efforts to address child malnutrition are going well, there are rising concerns about overweight and obesity in other parts of the world. This 2017 edition also highlights the relationship between conflict and war and food security and nutrition, and explains why efforts at addressing hunger must go hand-in-hand with those to sustain peace.

This authoritative resource, comprising 31 chapters, covers all the main areas of psychological science and is written by an outstanding set of authors from around the world.

This Work Is A Serious Attempt To Understand, Interpret And Expose Communal Riots, Their Roots During The Colonial Rule. This Study Suggests That Communal Riots Are A Perverted Form Of Class Struggle. Religion Cloaks The Real Issues And Communal Colours Are Given To Class Conflict By Vested Interests.