Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Problem and How to Approach It -- 1.Understanding Conflict Resolution -- 1.1.Peacemaking as a New Experience -- 1.2.Peace Research and Conflict Resolution -- 1.3.Defining Conflict Resolution -- 1.4.Limits of Conflict Resolution -- 1.5.Outlining This Book -- 2.Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements -- 2.1.The Concept of Conflict -- 2.2.Identifying Armed Conflict -- Three projects -- The Michigan and Hamburg projects -- 2.3.Trends in Armed Conflicts -- The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) -- Patterns of armed conflict -- 2.4.Outcomes of Armed Conflict -- 3.Approaching Conflict Resolution -- 3.1.The Evolution of Conflict Analysis -- 3.2.Focusing on Conflict Dynamics -- 3.3.Focusing on Basic Needs -- 3.4.Focusing on Rational Calculations -- 3.5.Synthesizing Conflict Resolution -- Refining the definition -- Transcending incompatibility: seven mechanisms -- 3.6.Identifying Key Elements in Conflict Analysis --

Contents note continued: 4.Analysing Conflict Resolution -- 4.1.Basic and Complex Levels of Analysis -- 4.2.The Role of the State -- Actors in conflict -- The special roles of the state -- The global system -- 4.3.Introducing the Trichotomy of Conflict -- Locating conflicts in the trichotomy -- 4.4.Applying the Trichotomy of Conflict and Peace -- Armed conflict since the Cold War -- Peace agreements since the Cold War -- pt. Two Basics of Conflict Resolution -- 5.The Resolution of Conflicts between States -- 5.1.Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords between States -- The last decades of the Cold War -- The post-Cold War period -- Geopolitik, Realpolitik, Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik -- 5.2.Conflict Resolution: Geopolitik and Realpolitik -- Status Quo or Status Quo Ante Bellum? -- Punitive or integrative solutions? -- The seven mechanisms -- 5.3.Conflict Resolution: Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik -- Idealpolitik and the settlement of conflicts -- Peacemaking and Kapitalpolitik --

Contents note continued: The seven mechanisms -- 5.4.Conclusions for Interstate Conflict Resolution -- 6.Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars -- 6.1.Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords within States -- Civil wars during and after the Cold War -- Peace agreements in civil wars -- 6.2.Dealing with Incompatibilities over State Power -- 6.3.Democracy and the Settlement of Civil Wars -- 6.4.Dealing with the Internal Security Dilemma -- 6.5.State Failure, State Reconstruction and Non-state Terrorism -- 6.6.Civil Society in Internal Conflict Resolution -- 7.Conflict Resolution in State Formation Conflicts -- 7.1.State Formation Conflicts -- State formation conflicts during the Cold War -- State formation conflicts after the Cold War -- Peace agreements in the post-Cold War era -- 7.2.Identity Discrimination and Conflict Resolution -- 7.3.Autonomy and Federalism: Territorial Solutions within a State -- 7.4.Independence with or without Integration --

Contents note continued: 7.5.State Formation Conflicts and Democracy -- pt. Three Complexities in Conflict Resolution -- 8.Conflict Complexes and Conflict Resolution -- 8.1.Identifying Regional Conflict Complexes -- Regional conflicts since the Cold War -- Approaching regional conflicts -- 8.2.Regional Conflict and the Organizing of Regions -- Regional frameworks -- The limits of intra-regional frameworks -- Extra-regional approaches to regional conflicts -- Regional security after war -- 8.3.Major Powers and Conflict Complexes -- Major powers in regional conflicts -- Armed conflicts in major powers -- Major powers and global conflict -- 8.4.Global Dimensions of Conflict Resolution -- 9.The United Nations in Conflict Resolution -- 9.1.The UN in Peace Agreements -- 9.2.Collective Security -- The UN Charter -- UN institutions -- 9.3.The Security Council in Conflict Resolution -- Agenda setting -- World regions -- The permanent members -- 9.4.UN Action and Peace Agreements --

Contents note continued: Sanctions -- Peacekeeping operations -- Peace enforcement -- 10.International Communities in Conflict Resolution -- 10.1.The New Communities -- UN-focused communities -- Value- and power-focused communities -- 10.2.Early Action and Conflict Prevention -- Examples of conflict prevention -- Predicting escalation -- 10.3.Third Parties and Mediation -- Entering a conflict -- Approaches to mediation -- 10.4.Structural Changes and Peaceful Conflict -- Undoing the effects of war -- Reducing access to arms -- Tackling the territorial issues -- Developing democratic institutions -- Finding new state structures -- Assessing the role of power -- 10.5.Between the International Community and Pax Americana.