Understanding Conflict Resolution

Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, since 2012. He held the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (1985–2012). He is also the Richard G. Starmann, Senior Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (since 2006). He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and the Special Program on International Targeted Sanctions (SPITS). His Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Sage, earlier edition, available also in an Arabic translation) is used in teaching around the world. His book Peace Research: Theory and Practice (Routledge 2011) demonstrates his range of research interests and has recently been translated into Chinese. Recently he also edited together with Ambassador Anders Bjurner Regional Organizations and Peacemaking: Challengers to the UN? (Routledge 2015). In 2010, he and Isak Svensson published The Go-Between (United States Institute of Peace Press), a study of mediation efforts by the renowned Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson. Wallensteen has published widely on conflict trends, conflict resolution, mediation, prevention, sanctions and the United Nations.

PART ONE: THE PROBLEM AND HOW TO APPROACH IT
Understanding Conflict Resolution
Peacemaking as a New Experience
Peace Research and Conflict Resolution
Defining Conflict Resolution
Limits of Conflict Resolution
Outlining This Book
Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements
The Concept of Conflict
Identifying Armed Conflict
Trends in Armed Conflicts
Outcomes of Armed Conflict
Approaching Conflict Resolution
The Evolution of Conflict Analysis
Focusing on Conflict Dynamics
Focusing on Basic Needs
Focusing on Rational Calculations
Synthesizing Conflict Resolution
Identifying Key Elements in Conflict Analysis
Analysing Conflict Resolution
Basic and Complex Levels of Analysis
The Role of the State
Introducing the Trichotomy of Conflict
Applying the Trichotomy of Conflict and Peace
PART TWO: BASICS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION
The Resolution of Conflicts between States
Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords between States
Conflict Resolution: Geopolitik and Realpolitik
Conflict Resolution: Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik
Conclusions for Interstate Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars
Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords within States
Dealing with Incompatibilities over State Power
Democracy and the Settlement of Civil Wars
Dealing with the Internal Security Dilemma
State Failure, State Reconstruction and Non-state Terrorism
Civil Society in Internal Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution in State Formation Conflicts
State Formation Conflicts
Identity Discrimination and Conflict Resolution
Autonomy and Federalism: Territorial Solutions within a State
Independence with or without Integration
State Formation Conflicts and Democracy
PART THREE: COMPLEXITIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Conflict Complexes and Conflict Resolution
Identifying Regional Conflict Complexes
Regional Conflict and the Organizing of Regions
Major Powers and Conflict Complexes
Global Dimensions of Conflict Resolution
The United Nations in Conflict Resolution
The UN in Peace Agreements
Collective Security
The Security Council in Conflict Resolution
UN Action and Peace Agreements
International Communities in Conflict Resolution
The New Communities
Early Action and Conflict Prevention
Third Parties and Mediation
Structural Changes and Peaceful Conflict
Between the International Community and Pax Americana