Discourses on violence : conflict analysis reconsidered
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Discourses on violence : conflict analysis reconsidered
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996
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Bibliography: p. [188]-199
Includes index
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Description
This text re-examines the understanding of war and violent conflict through a critical, post-positivist lens. It offers a radical, interpretive approach to conflict studies, and finds new applications for some of the latest ideas in critical social theory. Jabri argues that to understand conflict we must see it as a social phenomenon - the product of societies and the politics which establish their identities. She advances the idea that discursive and institutional practices interact to generate ways in which international actors legitimate themselves. These practices are central to the perpetuation of war, and their transformation is a prerequisite for establishing the conditions for peace.
Table of Contents
- Conflict and peace studies - setting the parameters
- theoretical and methodological questions in conflict studies
- mobilization and the emergence of conflict
- heterogeneity, power, the discursive mode and conflict
- roles, institutions and modes of conflict behaviour
- decision-making, conflict termination and negotiation
- mediation types and the challenge of track II diplomacy
- a critical evaluation of the field - towards post-modernist conflict studies.
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