Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change

By: Hugh Miall

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Major processes of social change, such as democratization, uneven development, and power transitions, sometimes lead to armed conflicts, sometimes to peaceful change. Under what conditions are violent conflicts arising from such changes prevented? Hugh Miall draws upon conflict theory, case studies of averted conflict and a survey of the preventors of war since 1945 to explore this question. He also looks ahead to discuss the prevention of emerging global conflicts, focusing on climate change.

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'Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change comes at a critical time in peace and conflict studies. Recent decades have offered up unprecedented numbers of peace agreements, yet we still face profound questions about how to fully understand the sustainability of constructive change toward a more lasting just peace. Miall's writing explores the evolution of our progress and shortcomings in concise detail and offers practical ways forward. This book stands as an important landmark and should be on the shelves of peace scholars, practitioners and policy makers.' - John Paul Lederach, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA

'The book is interesting not only because it attempts to break new ground in theorizing about social change, conflict and violence. It also summarizes well a great amount of theoretical and empirical conflict research.' - Helge Holtermann, Journal of Peace Research

'...useful reading not only for established academics but also for postgraduates or advanced undergraduates planning dissertations focusing on emergent conflict.' - Laurence Cooley, Political Studies Review

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List of Tables	p. x
List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The Debate over Peaceful Change	p. 4
E.H. Carr and the debate between idealists and realists	p. 5
Karl Deutsch and security communities	p. 7
Heikki Patomaki and the republican approach	p. 9
The Meaning of 'Peaceful Change'	p. 10
Emergent Conflict and Conflict Transformation	p. 13
Social Capacity and Social Context	p. 14
Causes and Preventors of War	p. 15
Conflict Prevention and Peace-building	p. 17
Conclusion	p. 18
A Theory of Emergent Conflict	p. 19
Introduction	p. 19
Lords of Milan	p. 20
Theories of Conflict	p. 22
The classical theorists	p. 22
Conflict theorists	p. 26
A Theory of Emergent Conflict	p. 32
Evolutionary interpretation of conflict	p. 32
A cognitive theory of goal formation	p. 46
From conflict of interest to overt conflict	p. 56
From conflict of interest to structural conflict	p. 61
Cultural, identity and belief conflict	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 65
Co-operation and Conflict Transformation	p. 66
Co-operation	p. 69
Co-operation and co-ordination	p. 74
Co-operation and public goods	p. 75
Co-operation and specialization	p. 76
Conflict Transformation	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 81
Co-operation under Externalities	p. 82
Conflict and Context	p. 85
How Contexts Shape Conflicts	p. 85
Amplifying and Dampening Conflicts	p. 89
Contextual Changes and Conflict Transformation	p. 91
Preventors of War	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
War Prevention in History	p. 96
Violence and prevention in early human history	p. 98
Bands	p. 98
Tribes and chieftaincies	p. 99
War prevention among early states	p. 100
Wars and war prevention in classical China	p. 101
Political unification in England and Japan	p. 103
European wars and war prevention since Westphalia	p. 104
The Rise of the 'Liberal Peace'	p. 106
The role of regional organizations	p. 109
The end of major power war?	p. 110
Conclusion: Prevention of international wars	p. 110
Structural Prevention of Civil Wars	p. 111
Democracy and democratization	p. 113
Development	p. 115
Political stability and institutions	p. 116
Institutions	p. 116
Quality of governance	p. 117
Human rights	p. 117
Education	p. 118
Conclusion: prevention of civil wars	p. 118
Policy implications	p. 119
Land Reforms and Peaceful Change	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
The Origins of Inequality	p. 122
Land Inequality and Conflict	p. 125
Land Reforms	p. 129
Peaceful Land Reforms	p. 134
The Kerala Case	p. 138
Conclusions	p. 143
Emergent Conflict over Climate Change	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
The Impact of Climate Change	p. 147
Implications for Conflict	p. 148
The North-South Conflict	p. 150
Conflict Analysis of the Climate Negotiations	p. 154
The Energy Question	p. 157
The Post-Kyoto Negotiations	p. 159
A Conflict Transformation Approach	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 166
Conclusions: Peaceful Change and Political Community	p. 168
Conditions for Peaceful Change	p. 170
Prevention of Wars	p. 173
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 182
Index	p. 195
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