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International Committee for Conflict Mangagement (ICCM) - Arno Editions

ICCM is a charitable organization created in Brussels in 1994 by a group of human rights experts, university professors, civil society actors and representatives of women's and youth organizations concerned with sharing the experience acquired through their research, teaching, projects and humanitarian interventions in countries affected by conflicts in several regions of the world.The purpose of the organization is to promote the protection and promotion of human rights, peaceful resolution, prevention and transformation of conflicts.Thus, through training, research, publication and book distribution, ICCM, through its publishing house (Arno) contributes to the peaceful resolution, management and prevention of armed conflicts to mitigate their consequences on the civilian population.
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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2021

Critical security in the Asia-Pacific

by Anthony Burke, Matt McDonald

In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional interstate strategic dynamics. Critical security in the Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities. Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the 'war on terror' and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated and accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable.

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April 2023

The Battle for Water

In the century of drought

by Jürgen Rahmig

— Water as a reason for war and a political instrument of power — Unique overview of global water conflicts — Foreword by Wolfgang Ischinger Every year, droughts in African countries cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and much suffering. Europe also experienced drought in 2022's summer of record temperatures. Without water, there can be no life. More and more people are suffering from water shortages. Climate change is fuelling the distribution battles for water; violent conflicts over this precious resource are the order of the day. Whether the protests in Iraq, the war in Syria, in the Himalayas, the Nile conflict and in many other places, water is already a reason for war and is being misused as a political instrument of power. The construction of huge dams, the targeted closure of locks, river diversions, water and land grabbing bring wars over the "blue gold" with them. In a unique overview, journalist Jürgen Rahmig describes the struggle for water in the 21st century. Where do dangers lurk today; where will they be tomorrow, and how can we prevent wars over precious water?

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Capitulations and Greek Interstate Relations

The Reflection of Humanistic Ideals in Political Events

by Karavites, Peter

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2025

The devil’s highway

Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

by Brad Beaven

Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous 'exotic' communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us with an insight into class, race and gendered relations. They were contact zones of heightened interaction where multi-ethnic subaltern cultures met, sometimes negotiated and at other times clashed with one another. The book argues that despite these challenges sailortown was a distinctive and functional working-class community that was self-regulating and self-moderating. The book uncovers a robust sailortown community in which an urban-maritime culture shaped a sense of themselves and the traditions and conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2016

University engagement and environmental sustainability

by Michael Osborne, Patricia Inman, Diana Robinson

Universities have a key role to play in contributing to environmental development and combating climate change. The chapters within this volume detail the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability, and provide both a broad view of university engagement and a detailed examination of various projects. As part of this series in association with the Place and Social Capital and Learning (PASCAL) International Observatory, the three key PASCAL themes of place management, lifelong learning and the development of social capital are considered throughout the book. While universities have historically generated knowledge outside of specific local contexts, this book argues that it is particularly important for them to engage with the local community and to consider diverse perspectives and assets when looking at issues within an ecological context. The chapters in this volume provide new perspectives and frames of reference for transforming universities by engaging in the development of resilient communities.

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Political structure & processes

May 2017

The Europeanisation of Conflict Resolutions

Regional integration and conflicts from the 1950s to the 21st century

by Series edited by Emil Kirchner, Boyka Stefanova, Thomas Christiansen

This book is about the EU's role in conflict resolution and reconciliation in Europe. The central argument of the book is that the evolution of the policy mix, resources, framing influences and political opportunities through which European integration affects conflicts and processes of conflict resolution demonstrates a historical trend through which the EU has become an indispensable factor of conflict resolution . It begins with the pooling together of policy-making at the European level for the management of particular sectors (early integration in the European Coal and Steel Community) through the functioning of core EU policies (Northern Ireland) to the challenges of enlargement (Cyprus) and the European perspective for the Western Balkans (Kosovo). The book will be of value to academics and non-expert observers alike with an interest in European integration and peace studies.

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Teaching, Language & Reference

July 2018

Framing post-Cold War conflicts

by Philip Hammond

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2024

Unofficial peace diplomacy

Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes

by Lior Lehrs

This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts: Norman Cousins and Suzanne Massie in the Cold War, Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland conflict and Uri Avnery in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book defines the phenomenon, examines the resources and activities of private peace entrepreneurs and their impact on the official diplomacy, and examines the conditions under which they can play an effective role in peace-making processes. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2006

Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict

The Other side

by Adrian Millar, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of this, he concludes that traditional approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed to failure and that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the arguments in this book or not, you are sure to find it a welcome change from both the existing, mainly conservative, analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict and traditional approaches to conflict resolution.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2010

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights

International society and the International Criminal Court

by Sibylle Scheipers

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations. The book offers an innovative take on the long-standing debate over sovereignty and human rights in international relations. It goes beyond the simple and sometimes ideological duality of sovereignty versus human rights by showing that sovereignty and human rights are not competing principles in international relations, as is often argued, but complement each other. The way in which the two norms and their relationship are understood lies at the core of actors' broader visions of world order. The author shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2020

How media and conflicts make migrants

by Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Federico Oliveri, Janna Graham

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July 2017

The ICC and China.

The Principle of Complementarity and National Implementation of International Criminal Law.

by Zhao, Chenguang

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February 2011

The Pre-Investigation Stage of the ICC.

by Stegmiller, Ignaz

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2016

Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45

by David Durnin, Ian Miller

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March 2010

Einheitliche Strafzumessung in den Rechtsquellen des ICC-Statuts.

by Melloh, Florian

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2025

Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices

Violent absences, haunting presences

by Laura Huttunen

This book examines human disappearances anthropologically in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances. Two focuses run through the book: the relationship between the state and disappearances, and the consequences of disappearances for the families and communities of missing persons. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying human remains, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. While providing empirical examples from a variety of places, with Bosnia-Herzegovina as they key empirical site, the book develops an analytic grip on the slippery category of the 'disappeared'.

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2020

Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue

by Richard James Wood

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2016

Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university

by Michael Osborne, Darlene Clover, Kathy Sanford

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May 2011

Die Verantwortlichkeit der Mitarbeiter privater Militär- und Sicherheitsunternehmen nach Art. 8 ICC-Statut.

by Menz, Simon

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2016

The European Union's fight against terrorism

by Christopher Baker-Beall

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by Anthony Burke, Matt McDonald

In the century of drought

by Jürgen Rahmig

The Reflection of Humanistic Ideals in Political Events

by Karavites, Peter

Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

by Brad Beaven

by Michael Osborne, Patricia Inman, Diana Robinson

Regional integration and conflicts from the 1950s to the 21st century

by Series edited by Emil Kirchner, Boyka Stefanova, Thomas Christiansen

by Philip Hammond

Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes

by Lior Lehrs

The Other side

by Adrian Millar, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

International society and the International Criminal Court

by Sibylle Scheipers

by Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Federico Oliveri, Janna Graham

The Principle of Complementarity and National Implementation of International Criminal Law.

by Zhao, Chenguang

by Stegmiller, Ignaz

by David Durnin, Ian Miller

by Melloh, Florian

Violent absences, haunting presences

by Laura Huttunen

by Richard James Wood

by Michael Osborne, Darlene Clover, Kathy Sanford

by Menz, Simon

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