Conflict In Society

Author : Dorothea Hilhorst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136179419

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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises by Dorothea Hilhorst Pdf

Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book examines this question from a sociological perspective. This book provides a qualitative inquiry into the social and political dynamics of local institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises caused by conflict or natural disaster. Emphasising the importance of everyday practices, this book qualitatively unravels the social and political working of policies, aid programmes and local institutions. The first part of the book deals with the social life of politics in crisis. Some of the questions raised are: What is the meaning of human security in practice? How do governments and other actors use crises to securitize – and hence depoliticize - their strategies? The second part of the book deals with the question how local institutions fare under and transform in response to crises. Conflicts and disasters are breakpoints of social order, with a considerable degree of chaos and disruption, but they are also marked by processes of continuity and re-ordering, or the creation of new institutions and linkages. This part of the book focuses on institutions varying from inter-ethnic marriage patterns in Sri Lanka to situation of institutional multiplicity in Angola. The final part of the book concerns the social and political realities of different domains of interventions in crisis, including humanitarian aid, peace-building, disaster risk reduction and safety nets to address chronic food crises. This book gives students and researchers in humanitarian studies, disaster studies, conflict and peace studies as well as humanitarian and military practitioners an invaluable wealth of case studies and unique political science analysis of the humanitarian studies field.

Author : Stephen Stetter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134116171

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Territorial Conflicts in World Society by Stephen Stetter Pdf

By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretically innovative and empirically rich perspectives on conflicts in world society. This collection contrasts Niklas Luhmann’s theory of world society in modern systems theory with more classical approaches to the study of conflicts, offering a fresh perspective on territorial conflicts in international relations. It includes chapters on key issues such as: conflicts and human rights conflicts in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa war and violence Greek-Turkish relations conflict theory the role of states in world societal conflicts legal territorial disputes in Australia hegemony and conflict in global law conflict management after 9/11. While all contributions draw from the theory of world society in modern systems theory, the authors offer rich multi-disciplinary perspectives which bring in concepts from international relations, peace and conflict studies, sociology, law and philosophy. Territorial Conflicts in World Society will appeal to international relations specialists, peace and conflict researchers and sociologists.

Author : Raffaele Marchetti,Nathalie Tocci
Publisher : Routledge India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 041568563X

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Conflict Society and Peacebuilding by Raffaele Marchetti,Nathalie Tocci Pdf

Contributed papers presented at a seminar organized at the LUISS University.

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520068610

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The Modern Social Conflict by Ralf Dahrendorf Pdf

"Ralf Dahrendorf has written a compelling book which, no doubt, will stimulate considerable discussion. It is the brilliant contribution of a convinced liberal to the study of conflict within contemporary democratic society."--Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles "Ralf Dahrendorf has written a compelling book which, no doubt, will stimulate considerable discussion. It is the brilliant contribution of a convinced liberal to the study of conflict within contemporary democratic society."--Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles

Author : Dr Chris Alden,Dr João Gomes Porto,Ms Imogen Parsons
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409498544

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From Soldiers to Citizens by Dr Chris Alden,Dr João Gomes Porto,Ms Imogen Parsons Pdf

Demilitarization of conflict and society is crucial to building sustainable peace in countries emerging from the scourge of civil war. As longstanding conflicts come to an end, processes which facilitate the potentially volatile transition from formal peace to social peace are critically important. At the heart of the exercise is the necessity of transforming the culture and the instruments of war - demilitarization - including disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating (DDR) former combatants into society. This volume represents the first in-depth and comprehensive discussion of reintegration of former combatants in war to peace transitions. In addition to a systematic reflection and review of existing literature on DDR, the authors devised and applied a field research methodology to studying the reintegration of former combatants in Angola with potentially significant implications on the design and implementation of DDR programmes. The volume is written for academics, students and practitioners focusing on war to peace transitions and post-conflict issues.

Author : Partick Baert,Sokratis Koniordos,Giovanna Procacci,Carlo Ruzza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135259716

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Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society by Partick Baert,Sokratis Koniordos,Giovanna Procacci,Carlo Ruzza Pdf

This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039

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War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412809443

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The Modern Social Conflict by Ralf Dahrendorf Pdf

Revolutions are melancholy moments in history—brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions, like 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, but applies to lesser political upheavals as well. Conflict builds into a state of tense confrontation, like a powder keg. When a spark is thrown, an explosion takes place and the old edifice begins to crumble. People are caught up in an initial mood of elation, but it does not last. Normality catches up. Why do revolutions occur? In this completely revised edition of The Modern Social Conflict, Ralf Dahrendorf explores the basis and substance of social and class conflict. Ultimately, he finds that conflicts are about enhancing life chances; that is, they concern the options people have within a framework of social linkages, the ties that bind a society, which Dahrendorf calls ligatures. The book offers a concise and accessible account of conflict’s contribution to democracies, and how democracies must change if they are to retain their political and social freedom. This new edition takes conflict theory past the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and into the present day. Upon publication of the original 1988 edition, Stanley Hoffmann stated, “Ralf Dahrendorf is one of the most original and experienced social and political writers of our time. . . . [this book] is both a survey of social and political conflict in Western societies from the eighteenth century to the present and a tract for a new ‘radical liberalism.’” And Saul Friedländer wrote, “Ralf Dahrendorf has written a compelling book . . . the brilliant contribution of a convinced liberal to the study of conflict within contemporary democratic society.”

Author : Lewis A. Coser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1964-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780029068106

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Functions of Social Conflict by Lewis A. Coser Pdf

Conflict and group boundaries; Hostility and tensions in conflict relationship; In-group conflict and group sctructure; Conflict with out-group and group sctructure; Ideology and conflict; Conflict calls forallies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:709780158

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Conflict in society by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Stone,Polly Rizova
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745686400

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Racial Conflict in Global Society by John Stone,Polly Rizova Pdf

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of patterns of race and ethnic relations across the globe. Stone and Rizova employ a neo-Weberian comparative approach to explore how evolving systems of group conflict have been - and continue to be - impacted by changes in the world system, global capitalism, multinational corporations, and transnational alliances and institutions. The authors analyse critical debates about ‘post-racialism’, ‘exceptionalism’, ethnic warfare and diversity management in global organizations, drawing on cases from South Africa to Darfur, and from global migration to the Arab Spring uprisings. In conclusion, the search for effective strategies of conflict resolution and the quest for racial justice are evaluated from multiple perspectives. Racial Conflict in Global Society provides stimulating insights into the basic factors underlying racial conflict and consensus in the early decades of the twenty-first century. It is essential reading for scholars and students across the social and political sciences, management and international relations.

Author : R. J. Rummel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412836301

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The Conflict Helix by R. J. Rummel Pdf

This is a book on conflict and consensus aimed at the general reader. In active, plain and direct language it makes the seemingly abstract and complex issues simple. Its view of peace is well-rounded, tough-minded, one that well understands the difficult world of social and personal violence and conflict. At its heart is a simple finding: "to wage peace we need to foster freedom." The human race can best achieve that simple aim by "leaving people alone to form their own communities." "The Conflict Helix "avoids the ambiguous in favor of the categorical; the hedged, qualified statement for the direct Rummel presents a series of basic principles, each concerning an aspect of conflict and peace - psychological, interpersonal, societal, international - and each aspect having its own master principle. These principles are not mere organizational props, but are deeply theoretical and empirically fundamental. The volume expresses the core ideas, results and conclusions of Rummel's major, five-volume work on "Understanding Conflict and War. "In discarding technical material and focusing on principles and meaning, "The Conflict Helix "presents an executive summary of a lifetime of work in a digestible form. In light of recent events in Europe, Asia and Latin American this work takes on a special poignancy for the developing no less than the industrialized worlds. Hence, this book should be of value to the general reader as well as professionals and advanced students of international politics.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry,Mark Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135149291

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Chinese Society by Elizabeth J. Perry,Mark Selden Pdf

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural and ethnic conflictmigrationlegal challengesintellectual and religious dissidenceopposition to family planning.The newly.

Author : D. Stanley Eitzen,Maxine Baca Zinn,Kelly Eitzen Smith
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social psychology
ISBN : 0205854419

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In Conflict and Order by D. Stanley Eitzen,Maxine Baca Zinn,Kelly Eitzen Smith Pdf

This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle by the powerless to achieve social justice, the changing economy, and globalization.

Author : Jack Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521421896

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Institutions and Social Conflict by Jack Knight Pdf

A thorough critique of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory emphasising the role of distributional conflict in the emergence of social institutions.