Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace And The Global System - Softcover

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Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden since 2012. He held the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (1985-2012). He is also the Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (since 2006). He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and the Special Program on sanctions (SPITS). His Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System (Sage, earlier edition, is available also in an Arabic translation) is used in teaching around the world. His book Peace Research: Theory and Practice demonstrates his range of research interests (Routledge 2011) and has recently been translated into Chinese. Recently he also edited together with Ambassador Anders Bjurner Regional Organizations and Peacemaking. Challengers to the UN? (Routledge 2015). In 2010 he and Isak Svensson published The Go-Between a study of mediation efforts by the renown Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson. Wallensteen has published widely on conflict trends, conflict resolution, mediation, prevention, sanctions and the United Nations.