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  • Confronting Peace

    Local Peacebuilding in the Wake of a National Peace Agreement

    Edited by Susan H. Allen, Landon E. Hancock, Christopher Mitchell, Cécile Mouly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Most recent works about the efforts of local communities caught up in a civil war have focused on their efforts to remain places of security and safety from the violence that surrounds them—neutral peace communities or zones. This book, in contrast, focuses on local peace communities facing new challenges and opportunities once a peace agreement has been signed at the national level, such as those ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Local Peacebuilding and National Peace

    Interaction Between Grassroots and Elite Processes

    Edited by Professor Emeritus Christopher R. Mitchell, Professor Landon E. Hancock ...
    Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiatives.The book looks at violent and protracted struggles in which local people have sought to make their own peace with local combatants in a variety of ways, and how such initiatives have affected and have been affected by national level strategies ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy

    Interactions between National and Local Levels

    Edited by Landon E. Hancock, Christopher Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This volume searches for pragmatic answers to the problems that continue to beset peacebuilding efforts at all levels of society, with a singular focus on the role of legitimacy.Many peacebuilding efforts are hampered by their inability to gain the support of those they are trying to help at the local level, or those at regional, national or international levels; whose support is necessary either ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

    Edited by Landon E. Hancock ...
    Series Book 40 - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
    This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the categorization of the other. It does this by exploring narratives to claim identities and assert agency; showing us the dialectic between dominant ... Read more

    $178.99 CAD

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  • Dependent America?

    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
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  • Labor Versus Empire

    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • Counting the Dead

    The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia

    by Winifred Tate ...
    Series Book 18 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

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  • Human Rights in Latin America

    A Politics of Terror and Hope

    by Sonia Cardenas ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights improvements. The accounts of how Latin America's people have dealt with the persistent threats to their fundamental rights offer lessons for people around the world.Human Rights in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Soldiers, Politicians, and Civilians

    Reforming Civil-Military Relations in Democratic Latin America

    by David Pion-Berlin, Rafael Martínez ...
    Are interactions between soldiers, politicians, and civilians improving? Every nation has to come to grips with achieving a more enduring harmony between government, the armed forces, and society if it aspires to strengthen its democracy. While there is an abundance of studies on civil-military affairs, few examine all three of these actors, let alone establish any standards with which to assess ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador

    by Elisabeth Jean Wood ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. Wood's rich tapestry of explanation is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who ... Read more

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