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Can Peace Research Make Peace?: Lessons in Academic Diplomacy
Contributor(s): Kivimäki, Timo (Author)

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 ISBN: 1409452026     ISBN-13: 9781409452027
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $59.80  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Geopolitics
- Political Science | Peace
Dewey: 303.66
LCCN: 2012018435
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.01 lbs) 200 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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This book is about the process and, more generally, about the opportunities that peace research and the teaching of conflict resolution can offer academic diplomacy. As such the book is both an empirical and a theoretical project. While it aims at being the most comprehensive analysis of the conflict in West Kalimantan, it also launches a new theoretical approach, neo-pragmatism, and offers lessons for the prevention of conflicts elsewhere. While being based on the classical pragmatist theories of truth and explanation, the approach developed in this book incorporates the complications to social science theory caused by the 'discovery' of socially constructed realities, and concepts such as speech acts. Yet, instead of just theorizing speech acts and social constructs, the theoretical mission is to offer pragmatic, detailed, concrete prescriptions of what to do to deconstruct realities that threaten peace by the means available for research and scholars of peace.
 
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