LibGuides: Peace & Conflict Studies: Books

Start here! Recommended eBooks

These Online Companions, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias are a great starting point for your research!

Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Online
A uniquely comprehensive and complete presentation of the terrorist environment in the post-9/11 era.
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace & Conflict
Online
Excellent reference resource for peace and conflict resolution studies.
Europa World Plus
Online
One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Online
A comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches, processes, and interventions.
Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
Online
A transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts.
The miniAtlas of Human Security
Maps political violence, the links between poverty and conflict, assaults on human rights and the causes of war and peace.
Yearbook of the United Nations
Online
The complete collection (1946 onwards) is freely available for Researchers, students and educators.

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Interloan service
The Interloan service enables library users to search for items, create requests for items not held in the University of Otago Library, and monitor the progress of those requests.

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These Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks are a great starting point for your research!

Encyclopedia of peace education
Traces the history and emergence of the field, highlights foundational concepts, contextualizes peace education practice across international and disciplinary borders, and suggests new directions for peace educators.
SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader
A comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict.
Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping
Important people, military missions and other events, concepts, organizations, related to the major peacekeeping operations conducted by international organizations since 1920.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Authoritative, objective and comprehensive. Covers scholarship on peace studies, conflict mediation, and non-violent alternatives to war.
Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies
Prominent scholars and thinkers from over 30 cultures reflect on the notion of peace. The diversity of perspectives highlight differing cultural perceptions of the meaning and scope of peace.
The Contemporary Conflict Resolution Reader
The first comprehensive survey of the field, bringing together seminal writings with the cutting-edge interventions of today’s leading exponents and practitioners.