Books

Al-Irfan Research Journal is a guiding light of meticulous research in the field of Islamic Studies, standing at the center of scholarly inquiry and intellectual illumination. It is a bi-annually published double-blind peer-reviewed journal committed to advancing the understanding of Islam, its rich heritage, and its relevance in contemporary soci...

Journal of Basic and Emerging Sciences (JBES) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and is published by Minhaj University Lahore (MUL). Its primary objective is to provide a platform for the publication of high quality research articles and to contribute knowledge by publishing innovative and impactful research findings in Basic and Emerging scienc...

Since its inception in 2020, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Governance embarked on a remarkable journey, consistently serving as a beacon of academic excellence. IJIEG stands as a peer-reviewed bastion of excellence, dedicated to the dissemination of exceptional research contributions from across the globe.

This examines how religion influences and is influenced by social and cultural dynamics worldwide. It covers themes like secularization, religious pluralism, and religion's role in conflict and peacebuilding, offering a key resource for scholars of religion and society.

Peace and Counter Terrorism

This Book presents Immanuel Kant's key essays on achieving lasting global peace through cooperation, republican governance, and international law, along with his reflections on politics and history. It offers valuable insights into Kant's political philosophy and vision for peace.

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

This Book highlights how the simple act of knitting can be a powerful tool for social change. The book features stories of individuals and organizations using knitting to support charitable causes, from providing clothing for those in need to fostering community and healing. It includes patterns for various projects and encourages readers to contri...

Peace, love and justice

Peace, love and justice

This book explores key themes in international relations, focusing on conflict resolution, peace studies, and the conditions necessary for global stability. Russett examines the dynamics of war, democracy, and cooperation among nations, offering insights into how international institutions and democratic governance can promote lasting peace. The bo...

Conflict,Violience and Peacemaking

Peace Out of Reach

this book examines the challenges of rebuilding Afghanistan in the aftermath of conflict. The authors explore the complexities of peacebuilding efforts, addressing political instability, international intervention, and the realities on the ground that make lasting peace elusive. This book provides a critical analysis of Afghanistan’s ongoing stru...

ISLAM AND GLOBAL DIALOGUE

This Book analyzes China's growing influence in East Asia and its implications for regional stability and international relations. Kang challenges common Western perceptions of China's rise as a threat, arguing that China's ascent is fostering a stable and peaceful regional order. The book explores historical, political, and economic...

This Book examines the paradox of violence in Latin America during times of peace, exploring how conflicts persist despite the absence of full-scale wars. Mares investigates the underlying political, economic, and social factors that contribute to ongoing violence, even as countries strive for stability and democratic governance. The book offers in...

Peace, kindness

"Lotus Unleashed: The Evolution of an Icon" is more than just a chronicle of cars; it's a journey into the heart of innovation, performance, and the indomitable spirit of one of the most revered names in automotive history. This comprehensive volume takes you through the storied past of Lotus Cars, showcasing how a small British bran...

This Book challenges conventional ideas about war and advocates for nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution. Francis argues that war is not an inevitable part of human society and explores alternative strategies for addressing global conflicts through diplomacy, cooperation, and grassroots peacebuilding efforts. The book encourages readers to ...

T H E U N I T E D NAT I O N S , P E A C E A N D S E C U R I T Y

peace, terrorism

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains the literature on diffusion dynamics of political violence. It presents the cases ranging from the anarchist movement and left-wing militancy in European history to contemporary Islamist violence, to insurgent movements in Sou...

The first edition of the MILID Yearbook was published in 2013 with the theme, “Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue”. The 2014 edition of the yearbook was on “Global Citizenship in a Digital World”, while the edition in 2015 focused on “Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals.”This yea...

Love, compassion, and peace—these words are at the heart of spiritual endeavors. Although we intuitively resonate with their meaning and value, for most of us, the challenge is how to embody what we know: how to transform these words into a vibrant, life practice. In these times of conflict and uncertainty, this is not an abstract exercise. Peac...

The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The style of peacemaking of the Olso Accords has been called into question by the facts on the ground. Elite forms of peacemaking that do not embrace the basic needs of average people on all sides are bound to fail.The complete neglect of deeper ...

Sadly enough, war, conflicts and terrorism appear to stay with us in the 21st century. But what is our outlook on new methods for preventing and ending them? Present-day hard- and software enables the development of large crisis, conflict, and conflict management databases with many variables, sometimes with automated updates, statistical analyses ...

The Role of Ict in Preventing, Responding to And Recovering from Conflict

The Role of Ict in Preventing, Responding to And Recovering from Conflict

The First War on Terrorism examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the political violence it confronted during the 1980s. David C. Wills takes the reader inside the negotiations over how to respond to terrorist acts and shows how the Reagan Administration's decision making process was a crucial obstacle to formulating a consisten...

Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris contends that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the absence of effective institutions can increase rather than de...

An excellent work on various utopian ideas of the 20th century. Winter's writing is very good and this makes for an enjoyable read. Winter focuses on "minor utopias," thus avoiding Nazism and Communism. He covers a number if different dreamers and attempts at making the world a better place--many of which are now almost forgotten. I ...

Not so long ago, the institution of slavery was accepted by most people and women were considered too "dumb" to vote. Today a popular misconception is that human beings are inherently violent and that war has been and always will be with us. However, as "Beyond War" illustrates, war is not in our genes. We can choose peace. Just...

As a child of the 60's, I've read a lot of books about the period trying to pin down just what happened... Mr. Burner's book is the best one I've read about the period. His concise summaries of the civil rights and black power movements are wonderful for anyone trying to get a handle on the era. What a shame that a decade that s...

We typically define and talk about wars using the language of politics, but what happens when you bring in a doctor s perspective on conflict? Can war be diagnosed like an illness? Is the concept of "peacebuilding" simply the extension of healthcare and therapy beyond the individual, to encompass communities and nations? The contributors ...

This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially since being initiated by Professor Johan Galtung half a century ago. They have forged a transdis...

As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, ov...

An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has expanded from traditional military security issues into countering terrorism, international organized crime and drug trafficking. This has injected n

his publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity. The first part of the book addresses the question: What is successful conflict prevention? The second part reflects on how existing mechanisms and instr...

Israel is a Jewish state in a Muslim Middle East. How can it survive in that region? This book answers this question by analyzing the dangers and threats that Israel faces today. The book also highlights an important component of Israel's strength: the endurance and the cohesion of its social fabric, which the author sees as the key to his cou...

Readers find here a volume that applies positioning theory in order to achieve a fuller and more in-depth understanding of conflict and its psychological resolution. Positioning theory is the study of the nature, formation, influence and ways of change of local systems of rights and duties as shared assumptions about them influence small scale inte...

The West, Civil Society and the Construction of Peace describes how the challenges of peacemaking following the First and Second World Wars defined the West. In turn, the difficulties in applying the Western recipe for peace to the new security challenges of a globalizing world is threatening to destroy the international community. Mikkel Vedby Ras...

he threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups' influence and networks spread globally, a concerted effort in counterterrorism strategy is critical to mitigating the threat they present. Governments facing the threat of terrorism are typically strengthening their law enforcement, mil...

Because terrorists are made, not born, it is critically important to world peace that detainees and inmates influenced by violent ideology are deradicalized and rehabilitated back into society. Exploring the challenges in this formidable endeavor, Terrorist Rehabilitation: The U.S. Experience in Iraq demonstrates through the actual experiences of m...

The contributors to this book analyse the different approaches and modes of terrorist rehabilitation that have been attempted by Malaysia and other countries in Southeast Asia. With an emphasis on the particular contexts within which they operate, this book examines the factors that determine the relative successes and failure of a wide range of co...

The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional rehabilitation programs have led convicted and suspected terrorists to express remorse, repent, and recant their violent ideologies and to re-enter mainstream politics, religion and society. Although operational co...

The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq, and Uzbekistan. There are also ad hoc and emerging programmes in Nigeria, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, and Nepal. Due to the threat from global Isl...

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former ‘terrorists’. Offering a theoretically robust, empirically rich account of work with ex-prisoners and those considered ‘at risk’ of involvement in extremism in the United Kingdom, Marsden dissects the probl...

A collection of case studies of terrorist rehabilitation programmes from around the world, this book examines the wide-ranging methodologies of terrorist deradicalisation initiatives adopted by different countries globally. It contextualises these programmes as they were initiated and explains the factors that led to their relative success, failure...

The Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement offers an overview of the historical settings, theoretical debates, national approaches and practical strategies to deradicalisation and disengagement. Radicalisation and violent extremism are major global challenges, and as new violent extremist groups and environments emerge, there is ...