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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
Constructivism and Conflict Resolution
Constructivism and Conflict Resolution
Constructivism is a social theory rather than a substantive theory of international politics. Broadly speaking, constructivists are concerned with the way agents and structures co-constitute each other, the socially constructed nature of actors and their identities and interests, and the importance of ideational, normative and discursive factors in the shaping of international political reality. Constructivist approaches are unique in that they occupy a middle ground between rationalist/positivist and idealist/interpretive approaches to the study of international politics (Adler, 1997), thereby offering the possibility of a more holistic, multi-dimensional understanding of processes such as war, conflict and conflict resolution.
Constructivism offers insights for conflict analysis and conflict resolution at the international level because it draws attention to a range of factors ...
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