Dedication	6
	Contents	8
	Figures	12
	Tables	14
	Notes on contributors	16
	Foreword	20
	Preface	22
	Acknowledgments	26
	Introduction	28
	Conflict analysis and resolution as a multidiscipline: A work in progress	30
	Part I: Core concepts and theories	44
	1 The role of identity in conflict	46
	2 Encountering nationalism: The contribution of peace studies and conflict resolution	59
	3 Gender relations and conflict transformation among refugee women	72
	4 Causation as a core concept in conflict analysis	86
	5 The challenge of operationalizing key concepts in conflict resolution theory in international and subnational conflicts	98
	6 The enemy and the innocent in violent conflicts	112
	7 Identity conflicts: Models of dynamics and early warning	127
	8 Generativity-based conflict: Maturing microfoundations for conflict theory	143
	Part II: Core approaches: Conceptual and methodological	156
	9 Human agonistes: Interdisciplinary inquiry into ontological agency and human conflict	158
	10 The ethnography of peace education: Some lessons learned from Palestinian–Jewish integrated education in Israel	171
	11 Waging conflicts constructively	184
	12 A social-psychological approach to conflict analysis and resolution	197
	13 Building relational empathy through an interactive design process	211
	14 Building peace: Storytelling to transform conflicts constructively	228
	15 A capacity-building approach to conflict resolution	242
	16 Gender mainstreaming: A valuable tool in building sustainable peace	253
	17 Culture theory, culture clash, and the practice of conflict resolution	268
	18 Conflict resolution: The missing link between liberal international relations theory and realistic practice	283
	19 Understanding the conflict–development nexus and the contribution of development cooperation to peacebuilding	299
	20 Evaluation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding	313
	Part III: Core practices: Processes	328
	21 Conflict transformation: Reasons to be modest	330
	22 Mediation frames/justice games	342
	23 Interactive conflict resolution: Dialogue, conflict analysis, and problemsolving	355
	24 Mediation and international conflict resolution: Analyzing structure and behavior	366
	25 Ethical and gendered dilemmas of moving from emergency response to development in “failed” states	381
	26 Memory retrieval and truth recovery	396
	27 Shifting from coherent toward holistic peace processes	410
	28 Law and legal processes in resolving international conflicts	423
	Part IV: Alternative voices and complex intervention designs	434
	29 Restorative processes of peace and healing within the governing structures of the Rotinonshonni “Longhouse People”	436
	30 Critical systematic inquiry in conflict analysis and resolution: An essential bridge between theory and practice	447
	31 From diagnosis to treatment: Toward new shared principles for Israeli–Palestinian peacebuilding	464
	32 Strategies for the prevention, management, and/or resolution of (ethnic) crisis and conflict: The case of the Balkans	483
	33 The perception of economic assistance in Northern Ireland and its role in the peace process	502
	34 Conflict resolution in an age of empire: New challenges to an emerging field	522
	Conclusions	536
	35 Toward a conflictology: The quest for transdisciplinarity	538
	36 Revisiting the CAR field	552
	Epilogue: Implications for theory, research, practice, and teaching	558
	Index	562