This major Handbook comprises cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR).

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches, processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value of multidisciplinary approaches to the analysis and resolution of conflicts. This consists of moving from the study of analytical approaches to understanding the deep-rooted causes of conflict, to third-party intervention approaches to preventing or ending violence, and to resolving and transforming conflict.

The book is divided into four main parts:

Part I: Core Concepts and Theories

Part II: Core Approaches

Part III: Core Practices

Part IV: Alternative Voices and Complex Intervention Designs

The Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution is a benchmark publication with major importance both for current research and for the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all students of conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, and International Relations in general, as well as to practitioners in the field.

This major Handbook is a collection of work from leading scholars in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR) field. The central theme is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis and resolution of conflicts.

Part 1: Core Concepts and Theories  1. The Role of Identity in Conflict  2. Encountering Nationalism: The Contribution of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution  3. Gender Relations and Conflict Transformation Among Refugee Women  4. Causation as a Core Concept in Conflict Analysis  5. The Challenge of Operationalizing Key Concepts in Conflict Resolution Theory in International and Subnational Conflicts  6. The Enemy and the Innocent of Violent Conflicts  7. Identity Conflicts: Models of Dynamics and Early Warning  8. Generativity-Based Conflict: Maturing Micro Foundations for Conflict Theory  Part 2: Core Approaches: Conceptual and Methodological  9. Human Agonistes: Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Ontological Agency and Human Conflict  10. The Ethnography of Peace Education: Some Lessons Learned from Palestinian-Jewish Integrated Education in Israel  11. Waging Conflicts Constructively  12. A Social-Psychological Approach to Conflict Analysis and Resolution  13. Building Relational Empathy Through An Interactive Design Process  14. Building Peace: Storytelling to Transform Conflicts Constructively  15. A Capacity Building Approach to Conflict Resolution  16. Gender Mainstreaming: A Valuable Tool in Building Sustainable Peace  17. Culture Theory, Culture Clash, and the Practice of Conflict Resolution   18. Conflict Resolution: The Missing Link between Liberal IR Theory and Realistic Practice  19. Understanding the Development-Conflict Nexus and the Contribution of Development Cooperation to Peacebuilding  20. Evaluation in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding 21. Toward A Conflictology: The Quest for Trans-Disciplinarity  Part 3: Core Practices: Processes  22. Conflict Transformation: Reasons to be Modest  23. Mediation Frames/Justice Games  24. Interactive Conflict Resolution: Dialogue, Conflict Analysis and Problem Solving  25. Mediation and International Conflict Resolution: Analyzing Structure and Behavior  26. Ethical and Gendered Dilemmas of Moving from Emergency Response to Development in "Failed" States  27. Memory-Retrieval and Truth-Recovery  28. Shifting from Coherent Towards Holistic Peace Processes  29. Law and Legal Processes in Resolving International Conflicts  Part 4: Alternative Voices and Complex Intervention Designs  30. Restorative Processes of Peace and Healing within the Governing Structures of the Rotinonshonni "Longhouse People"  31. Critical Systematic Inquiry in Conflict Analysis and Resolution: An Essential Bridge between Theory and Practice  32. From Diagnosis to Treatment: Towards New Shared Principles for Israeli/Palestinian Peacebuilding  33. Strategies for the Prevention, Management and/or Resolution of (Ethnic) Crisis and Conflict: The Case of the Balkans  34. The Perception of Economic Assistance in Northern Ireland and Its Role in the Peace Process  35. Conflict Resolution in An Age of Empire: New Challenges to an Emerging Field  Conclusions  Conclusion: Revisiting the CAR Field.  Epilogue: Implications for Theory, Research, Practice and Teaching