Can peace research make peace? : lessons in academic diplomacy

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Can peace research make peace? : lessons in academic diplomacy

Timo Kivimäki

Ashgate, c2012

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-177) and index

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This book is about the process and, more generally, about the opportunities that peace research and the teaching of conflict resolution can offer academic diplomacy. As such the book is both an empirical and a theoretical project. While it aims at being the most comprehensive analysis of the conflict in West Kalimantan, it also launches a new theoretical approach, neo-pragmatism, and offers lessons for the prevention of conflicts elsewhere. While being based on the classical pragmatist theories of truth and explanation, the approach developed in this book incorporates the complications to social science theory caused by the 'discovery' of socially constructed realities, and concepts such as speech acts. Yet, instead of just theorizing speech acts and social constructs, the theoretical mission is to offer pragmatic, detailed, concrete prescriptions of what to do to deconstruct realities that threaten peace by the means available for research and scholars of peace.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 What Kind of Junctures on the Path to Conflict Should Peace Research be Focused on?
  • Chapter 3 Junctures on the Path to Conflict
  • Chapter 4 Can the Path to Conflict be Blocked or Redirected?

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