This reviewer makes no claims to any academic expertise in this increasingly vital field, and at first struggled with some of the diagrammatic representations and terminology used in this new edition (particularly Figure 14.1, page 320, although the accompanying text came to my rescue). But by the end I felt well rewarded by the opportunity to study the range and depth of its coverage. The topics include aspects of anthropology, ecology, economics, history (not least of the conflict-resolution field itself), political theory and sociology. But such is the pace of events in this second decade of the twenty-first century (CE) that even this 'fully revised and expanded edition' (double the size of the first edition of 1999) does not include references to the Arab Spring, or to the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement of late 2011 and its progeny. Nor does it fully recognize the power - as demonstrated by these movements - of the 'twitter-sphere' as although the section on modern media and cyber technology (including cyber-warfare and cyber-peacemaking) draws attention to the need for responsible journalism, the very speed and ill-disciplined nature of the public 'bloggosphere' and mobile 'photophones', reaching as they can into the most remote societies, may have been understated.
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