2014 Reading List for PhD Candidates
Abu-Nimer, Mohammed, ed. Reconciliation, Justice and Coexistence (Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books, 2001).
Anderlini, Sanam. Women Building Peace: What They Do, Why It Matters (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner, 2007).
Austin, Beatrix, Martina Fischer & Hans J. Geissmann, eds. Advancing Conflict Transformation: The
Berghof Handbook II (Farmington Hills, MI; Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2011). (available
at: http://www.berghof-handbook.net)
Avruch, Kevin. Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution (Paradigm, 2012).
Azar, Edward E. The Management of Protracted Social Conflict (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth
Publishing, 1990).
Barash, David P. & Charles P. Webel. Peace and Conflict Studies, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications, 2009).
Boulding, Elise. Cultures of Peace (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).
Burton, John. Conflict: Resolution and Prevention (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990).
Cohen, Raymond. Negotiating Across Cultures (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace
Press, 1997).
Cheldelin, Sandra, Daniel Druckman & Larissa Fast. Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention. (New
York: Continuum, 2003).
Collier, Paul et al. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. (World Bank and
Oxford University Press, 2003)
Crocker, Chester A., Fen. O. Hampson & Pamela Aall, eds. Leashing the Dogs of War
(Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2007).
Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch, & Eric C. Marcus, eds. Handbook of Conflict Resolution:
Theory and Practice, 3rd ed. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014).
Doyle, Michael & Nicholas Sambanis, Making War and Building Peace. (Princeton University
Press, 2006).
Fisher, Ronald. J. Interactive Conflict Resolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
Galtung, Johan. Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization (London:
Sage Publications, 1996).
Gan, Barry L. & Robert L. Holmes. Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (Waveland Press, 2005).
Gilligan, James. Preventing Violence (Thames & Hudson: July 2001).
Holsti, Kalevi. The State, War, and the State of War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996).
Jeong, Ho-Won. Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies: Strategy and Process (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner, 2005).
Kalyvas, Stathis N. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Kriesberg, Louis & Bruce Dayton. Constructive Conflicts, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2012).
Lederach, John Paul. The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford, Oxford
Univ. Press, 2005).
Lederach, John Paul. Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (Washington DC:
United States Institute of Peace, 1997).
Levinger, Matthew, Conflict Analysis: Understanding Causes, Unlocking Solutions, USIP
Press 2013.
Minow, Martha. 1998. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass
Violence. Boston: Beacon Press.
Moore, Christopher W. The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict, 4th ed. (San
Francisco, CA: Wiley and Sons, 2014).
Nardin, Terry & David Mapel, eds. Traditions of International Ethics (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992).
Newman, Edward, Roland Paris and Oliver P. Richmond (eds.). New Perspectives on Liberal
Peacebuilding. Tokyo: UN University Press, 2009).
Paris, Roland. 2004. At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press).
Pruitt, Dean G. & Sung H. Kim. Social Conflict, 3rd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).
Raiffa, Howard, John Richardson & David Metcalfe. Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of
Collaborative Decision Making (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
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Ramsbotham, Oliver, Tom Woodhouse & Hugh Miall. Contemporary Conflict Resolution, 3rd ed.
(Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011)
Reardon, Betty A. Women and Peace: Feminist Visions of Global Security (State University of New
York Press, 1993).
Richmond, Oliver P. Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding: Critical Developments and Approaches
(Palgrave, 2010)
Robinson, Fiona. Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations. (Boulder, CO:
Westview, 2000).
Roht-Arriaza, Naomi & Javier Mariezcurrena, eds. Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century:
Beyond Truth Versus Justice. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Russett, Bruce & John Oneal. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International
Organizations (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001).
Said, Abdul Aziz. Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009.
Said, Abdul Aziz, & Charles O. Lerche. Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective, 4th ed.
(Prentice-Hall, 1994).
Sharp, Gene. Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
(Extending Horizons Books, 2005)
Smock, David. Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding (Washington, DC: United States Institute of
Peace Press, 2002).
Stedman, Stephen J., Elizabeth Cousens & Donald Rothchild, eds. Ending Civil Wars (Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002)
Tidwell,
Allan. Conflict Resolved? A Critical
(London: Pinter Publishers Ltd, 1999)
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Resolution,
Vasquez, John A., James T. Johnson, Jaffe, Sanford & Linda Stamato, eds. Beyond Confrontation:
Learning Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era (Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 1995).
Wallensteen, Peter. Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System 2nd edition
(London: Sage, 2007)
Walter, Barbara. Committing to Peace. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Wanis-St. John, Anthony. Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in Middle East Peacemaking (Syracuse,
NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).
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Zartman, I. William, ed. Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques, 2nd ed.
(Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007).
Please note that IPCR Ph.D. students are not expected to read all of these books in
their entirety, but they should be familiar with the topics, concepts, methods, and
issues that are discussed in this literature.
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