Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conflict, Peace, Security and Development: Theories and Methodologies / Dubavka Zarkov and Helen Hintjens -- Peace, Conflict and Violence / Johan Galtung --Humanitarian Assistance and New Humanitarianism : Some Old Questions / Tim Jacoby -- The Political Sociology of Statebuilding : Looking Beyond Weber / Nicolas Lemay-Hébert -- Conflict, Growth and (Under)Development / Syed Mansoob Murshed -- Off-Shore Oil in Ghana : Potentials for Conflict and Development / David Naab Aratuo -- Spaces of Memory and Intervention : Researching Post-Conflict Reconstruction in El Salado, Colombia / Juliana Villarreal -- Identity Politics in Wars : Theorizing, Policy and Interventions / Dubravka Zarkov -- "As if there were two Rwandas" : polarized research agendas in post-genocide Rwanda / Helen Hintjens -- Crafting Symbolic Geographies in Modern Turkey : Kurdish Assimilation and the Politics of (Re)Naming / Beril Cakir -- Law as an Instrument of Justice? : Victim Reparations at the International Criminal Court / Clara Garcia Orozco and Helen Hintjens -- Sri Lanka's Civil War : What Kind of Methodologies for Identity Conflict? / Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits -- Mathematical modelling and "ethnic conflict" in Colombia : The impact of the Unit and the Level of Analysis / Fabio Diaz Pabon -- Comparing Datasets : Understanding Conceptual Differences in Quantitative Conflict Studies / Ricardo Real Pedrosa de Sousa -- Theorizing the Politics of Judgement / Jolle Demmers.

"This book addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to conflict, violence and peace and development. Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global development"--