Overview
- Shares unique insights into the emergence of peace research in Sweden, provided by a key actor in the field during its formative years
- Demonstrates the range of topics that have to be understood in order to achieve quality, lasting peace
- Represents a substantial contribution to understanding the evolution of peace research as a field of study
Part of the book series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice (PAHSEP, volume 30)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Author
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C Developing Mediation
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Keywords
About this book
This book provides a broad overview of what peace research is all about by an author who has been involved in the field for more than half a century. Among other things it gives a unique review of how peace research emerged in Sweden as the author was a key actor in the most crucial events during this formative period. The book also portrays how the discipline has grown from an initial focus on “alternatives to war” to the comprehensive study of the many dimensions of a “lasting and positive peace”.
The author's own work covers causes of war, sanctions, conflict resolution, conflict data, mediation, and quality peace. They demonstrate the range of topics that have to be understood for a peace with quality. This is exemplified by some of the author's writings specifically selected for this volume plus a few ones original to it. Some accounts of the author's involvements in actual peace processes in the 1990s are also included.
This publication offers a substantial contribution to understanding the evolution of peace research as a field and is an important reading for scholars, policy makers, journalists, students and any aspiring peace researcher as well as for the public at large.
• Peter Wallensteen is a global pioneer of peace research due to his involvement in the creation of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University ¬– a major center in the field. He served as Head of Department from 1972 to 1999.
• Peter Wallensteen set up and directed the well-known Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP, the global resource for the study of armed conflicts and peace negotiations, 1978-2015.
• Peter Wallensteen was the first holder of the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, 1985-2012.
• He was also the first holder of the position as the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2006-2018.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He is appointed as Chair of the committee that awards the annual Holmdahl Prize on Human Rights by Uppsala University and as member of the Advisory Board of the Folke Bernadotte Academy by the Swedish Government.
Since 1968 Peter Wallensteen is married to Lena Wallensteen, Program Director, The Diplomatic Forum, Uppsala University and former Director of International Education at the Swedish Agency for International Technical and Economic Cooperation, BITS, and the National Agency for Higher Education. They have two children and six grandchildren.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer in Making Peace Researchable
Book Subtitle: With a Foreword by Jan Eliasson and a Preface by Raimo Väyrynen
Authors: Peter Wallensteen
Series Title: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62848-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62847-5Published: 29 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62850-5Published: 30 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62848-2Published: 28 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2509-5579
Series E-ISSN: 2509-5587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 643
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science