Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States, Hardcover by Brown, Graham K. (EDT); Langer, Arnim (EDT), ISBN 1848448422, ISBN-13 9781848448421, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

For graduate and undergraduate students, policy makers, researchers, and academics in conflict and peace studies, international relations, international politics, and security studies, Brown (international development, U. of Bath, UK) and Langer (international relations, U. of Leuven, Belgium) compile 29 contributions on the causes of violent conflicts and state fragility, the challenges of conflict resolution and mediation, and the obstacles to post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A group of economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and development and international relations researchers working around the world considers the involvement of aspects such as ethnicity, gender, human security, poverty, the social contract, the economic dimensions of civil war, horizontal inequalities, natural resources and development, climate change, education, human capital accumulation, and demography; solutions for refugees; rebel recruitment; the international dimensions of internal conflict; theories of ethnic mobilization; transitions from war to peace; mediation; disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration; transitional justice; collective conflict management; the political economy of fragile states; conflict resolution vs. democratic governance; federations and managing nations; post-conflict recovery; and complex power sharing. Some chapters have been previously published elsewhere. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()