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  • COVID Diagnosed the System

    Lessons from the Pandemic in Massachusetts Prisons

    by Bridget Conley ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical change—nowhere more so than in Massachusetts, which had just passed major criminal justice reform. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the moment with life-threatening force, ravaging people held in prisons and jails across the country. However, it did not so much create new ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Memory from the Margins

    Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum

    by Bridget Conley ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Accountability for Mass Starvation

    Testing the Limits of the Law

    Edited by Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch, Wayne Jordash QC ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
    Famine is an age-old scourge that almost disappeared in our lifetime. Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines and deaths in humanitarian emergencies were much reduced. The humanitarian agenda was ascendant. Then, in 2017, the United Nations identified four situations that threatened famine or breached that threshold in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. Today, this list is ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • How Mass Atrocities End

    Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq

    Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic ...
    Given the brutality of mass atrocities, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, who are not at risk, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis of the processes, decisions, and factors that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Peace and Conflict 2016

    Edited by David Backer, Ravinder Bhavnani, Paul Huth ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    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 ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa

    The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap

    by Philip Roessler ...
    Why are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil war trap - sharing power with ethnic rivals is necessary to underwrite societal peace and prevent ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace

    Silencing the Guns

    by Chris Alden, Doctor Monika Thakur, Matthew Arnold ...
    Militias have proven to be a consistent and enduring challenge to achieving peace in war zones around the world. Whether armed by embattled governments in defence of their territory or fostered by external actors in the interests of greed or grievance, these groups occupy an uncertain and deeply controversial position in the changing landscape of conflict.Linked variously to atrocities against ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns

    Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria J Stephan ...
    Nonviolent campaigns usually take place in complex domestic and international settings, where support from outside actors can be a double-edged sword. We argue that nonviolent campaigns tend to benefit the most from external assistance that allows them to generate high participation, maintain nonviolent discipline, deter crackdowns, and elicit security force defections. But various forms of ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Compliant Rebels

    Rebel Groups and International Law in World Politics

    by Hyeran Jo ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil conflicts around the world. Rather than celebrating the existence of compliant rebels, the author ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Advocacy in Conflict

    Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism

    Edited by Alex de Waal ...
    Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have often involved compromising on integrity in pursuit of profile and influence.Examining the methods used by Western advocates, how they relate to campaigns in the countries concerned, and their impact, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

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