Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHNXLNVZ | 2023 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Greta Lynn Uehling
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war. Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.

Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Post-Conflict Consensus-Building By Timothy Donais
2012 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 041558874X | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is sustainable in the absence of a meaningful degree of local involvement. Despite growing recognition of the importance of local ownership, however, relatively little attention has been paid to specifying what precisely the concept means or how it might be implemented. This volume contributes to the ongoing debate on the future of liberal peacebuilding through a critical investigation of the notion of local ownership, and challenges conventional assumptions about who the relevant locals are and what they are expected to own. Drawing on case studies from Bosnia, Afghanistan and Haiti, the text argues that local ownership can only be fostered through a long-term consensus-building process, which involves all levels of the conflict-affected society. This book will be of great interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, development studies, security studies and IR.

Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding and Ethnic Conflict by Jessica Senehi, Imani Michelle Scott
English | August 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0367428032 | 374 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches.

Isabel Rocha de Siqueira, "Managing State Fragility: Conflict, Quantification and Power "
English | ISBN: 1138682284 | 2017 | 236 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the management of 'state fragility' and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics.

Gender, Conflict and International Humanitarian Law: A critique of the 'principle of distinction' By Orly Maya Stern
2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 113830770X | PDF | 3 MB
This book conducts a gendered critique of the 'principle of distinction' in international humanitarian law (IHL), with a focus on recent conflicts in Africa. The 'principle of distinction' is core to IHL, and regulates who can and cannot be targeted in armed conflict. It states that civilians may not be targeted in attack, while combatants and those civilians directly participating in hostilities can be. The law defines what it means to be a combatant and a civilian, and sets out what behaviour constitutes direct participation. Close examination of the origins of the principle reveals that IHL was based on a gendered view of conflict, which envisages men as fighters and women as victims of war. Problematically, this view often does not accord with the reality in 'new wars' today in which women are playing increasingly active roles, often forming the backbone of fighting groups, and performing functions on which armed groups are highly reliant. Using women's participation in 'new wars' in Africa as a study, this volume critically examines the principle through a gendered lens, questioning the extent to which the principle serves to protect women in modern conflicts and how it fails them. By doing so, it questions whether the principle of distinction is suitable to effectively regulate the conduct of hostilities in new wars. This book will be of much interest to students of international law, gender studies, African politics, war and conflict studies, and international relations.

Conflict Management by Introbooks Team
English | MP3@192 kbps | 41 min | 56.6 MB
Conflict resolution or conflict management is a skill, no doubt. Conflict is a normal occurrence, and it can sometimes be healthy for a relationship if it occurs once in a while. It is impossible for two individuals from different backgrounds to agree at all times. As a result, conflict in relationships is inevitable. Since they cannot be eliminated, it is only normal to learn how to manage them when they occur. Mismanagement of conflict can harm any human relationship, and such harm may leave indelible marks and irremovable scars. The reverse is the case when conflicts are managed in positive and respectful ways; it can turn the worst of enemies to the best of friends.

Tara Alberts, "Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700"
English | ISBN: 0199646260 | 2013 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Conflict and Conversion> explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This region conjured visions of the exotic in the minds of early modern Europeans, and became an important testing ground for ideas about the nature of conversion and the relationship between religious belief and practice. Some Southeast Asians adopted Christianity-and even died for their new faith-while others resisted all incentives, menaces, and cajolement to reject their original spiritual beliefs and practices. In this volume, Tara Alberts explores how Catholicism itself was converted in this encounter, as Southeast Asian neophytes adapted the faith to their own needs.

Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian: Its Nature, Management, and Mediation By Peter N. Bell
2013 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0199567336 | PDF | 7 MB
Our understanding of Late Antiquity can be transformed by the non-dogmatic application of social theory to more traditional evidence when studying major social conflicts in the Eastern Roman Empire, not least under the Emperor Justinian (527-565). Social Conflict in the Age of Justinianexplores a range of often violent conflicts across the whole empire -- on the land, in religion, and in sport -- during this pivotal period in European history. Drawing on both sociology and social psychology, and on his experience as a senior British Civil Servant dealing with violent politicalconflicts in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, Bell shows that such conflicts were a basic feature of the overwhelmingly agricultural political economy of the empire.These conflicts were reflected at the ideological level and lead to intense persecution of intellectuals and Pagans as an ever more robust Christian ideological hegemony was established. In challenging the loyalties of all social classes, they also increased the vulnerability of an emperor and hisallies. The need to legitimise the emperor, through an increasingly sacralised monarchy, and to build a loyal constituency, consequently remained a top priority for Justinian, even if his repeated efforts to unite the churches failed.

Conflict Management in the Workplace: Understand, Navigate, Prevent by Thomas Jordan
English | April 10th, 2020 | ISBN: 9781393317319 | 187 pages | True EPUB | 10.24 MB
This book on conflict management offers its readers the practical tools they need to understand conflicts and engage them skillfully. When you know what to look for and what questions to ask, you will feel confident to address emerging conflicts proactively. You might even start finding that conflicts are really interesting rather than uncomfortable. The vocabulary, techniques and strategies presented in this book will equip the readers to handle difficult conversations, develop strategies to navigate protracted conflict, support those who lack skills in conflict management and build robust collaboration cultures in their organizations.

Dangerous Love : Transforming Fear and Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World
by Chad Ford
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1523089776 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 3.83 MB