...This volume seeks to bring together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the EU, two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism, and culture, and yet...

...Jean-Paul Lederach is a leading proponent of transformation type conflict resolution who contends that conflict tends to occur where there are ethnic, regional and religious differences and arises over ‘long-standing animosities rooted in a perceived threat to identity and survival’ and thus armed...

...This chapter presents a case study on the role of the European Union (EU) in the conflict resolution of Northern Ireland. It describes the incremental nature of establishing a role for European integration in the conflict resolution process through policy tools, resources and political...

... for the Western Balkans. The analysis reveals weak direct effects but a strong positive association between the EU influences and the institutional dynamic of the conflict resolution process, measured as political change and reform in Serbia and progress in state-building in Kosovo. This chapter contends...

... over followers; the dangers of a world dominated in the name of numen. I focus on the range of theoretical books between Stratagems and Spoils and God-Botherers and Other True Believers. Third parties are also important in the theory and practice of conflict resolution. In this chapter, I bring...

... Ian Snr Robinson Peter Ashdown Paddy consociational arrangements Orange Order Tyrone County Gaelic Football Association Wilson R Legitimacy National and Political Identity Partition Violence Conflict Resolution International and Intergovernmental Cooperation Reconciliation Ambivalence...

... approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed and argues that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts and, as such, deserves to be further...

...This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia since the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation in 1991. Drawing on historical institutionalism, it explains the EU's contribution to post-conflict stabilisation and conflict resolution...

... in the Balkan region, an unwillingness of the member states to get militarily involved in the conflict, and inflated expectations both from insiders and outsiders of what the EC could do in the situation. In spite of these limitations, the member states showed a willingness to engage in conflict resolution...

... and the overall contribution of EU foreign policy to conflict resolution in Bosnia. The case study of Bosnia provides evidence to support three key findings. First, that institutions have had a crucial impact on levels of coherence and effectiveness over time. Second, that contrary to rationalist assumptions...

...This introductory chapter explains the objective of this volume, which is to explore the peace and conflict resolution role of European integration by testing its somewhat vague, albeit well-established, macro-political rationale of a peace project in the practical settings of conflicts...

...This chapter considers Europeanisation as a construct of middle-range theorising. It examines the scope, causal processes and outcomes of Europeanisation with a particular emphasis on the implications for model-building. It describes the Europeanisation of conflict resolution as a non-traditional...

...This chapter presents a case study concerning the application of regional integration as a system of conflict resolution in the example of the Franco-German relationship of the 1950s. It traces early attempts to break the cycle of punitive peace between France and Germany, and analyses the meaning...

... Agreement in 1973, EU accession in 2004 and the resumption of intercommunal talks in 2008. This chapter argues that the null hypothesis on the EU's involvement in the Cyprus conflict, associating its impacts on conflict resolution with only marginal or random effects can be rejected. conditionality Cyprus...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the role of European integration in peace and conflict resolution. It presents an argument about the potential of the concept of Europeanisation and the governance perspective in European Union studies to explain the effects of European...

... Michael Orme Stanley Soskice Sir Frank Currie Austin Lee John Special Powers Act 1922 Northern Ireland Civil Rights Paisley Ian B Specials Chichester Clark James Hume John Kerr Russell Anglo Boer war 1899–1902 Davitt Michael Autobiogaphy/memoir Sectarianism Conflict resolution Civil rights...

... Times McNamara Kevin Downing Street Declaration 1993 Sunningdale Agreement 1973 Democratic Unionist Party DUP Provisional Sinn Féin Brooke Peter Trimble David New Labour Ideology Propaganda Conflict resolution Arriving at Hillsborough Castle on 7 April 1998 to begin the negotiations...

... Intermediary Funding Bodies IFBs reconciliation government departments public consultation Special EU Programmes Body SEUPB water framework directive civil service Northern Ireland Centre in Europe NICE Belfast City Council identity Northern Ireland European Union Conflict resolution Devolution...