CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING PEACEBUILDING: CONTESTING THE CONCEPT -- FROM NEGATIVE PEACE TO POSITIVE PEACE -- UNDERSTANDING MINIMAL-MAXIMAL AND NARROW-BROAD PEACEBUILDING -- THE PEACEBUILDING SPECTRUM -- FROM PRE-CONFLICT PEACEBUILDING TO POST-CONFLICT PEACEBUILDING -- MACRO/MESO/MICRO PEACEBUILDING -- MACRO-LEVEL PEACEBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING -- MESO-LEVEL PEACEBUILDING: NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING -- MICRO-LEVEL PEACEBUILDING: LOCAL AND GRASSROOTS PEACEBUILDING -- THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: TRANSLATING THE MICRO-/MESO-LEVEL TO THE MACRO-LEVEL -- THE ETHICS OF PEACEBUILDING -- CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 - MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND PEACEBUILDING -- INTRODUCTION -- DEVELOPMENTS IN THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE -- MORAL THEORIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON KNOWLEDGE -- THE CASE FOR GENERATING MORAL KNOWLEDGE -- FOUNDATIONALISM AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORAL KNOWLEDGE -- ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM, POST-STRUCTURALISM AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MORAL KNOWLEDGE -- POST-STRUCTURALISM AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE -- THE PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTION: A CRITIQUE OF ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM -- GENDERED (RE)VISIONS OF MORAL KNOWLEDGE -- ETHICAL EGOISM AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION -- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, POSITIVISM AND PEACE RESEARCH -- EARLY AND CONTEMPORARY POSITIVISM -- POSITIVISM'S INFLUENCE ON PEACE RESEARCH -- NORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND NON-COERCIVE APPROACHES TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING -- BURTONIAN NORMATIVITY IN CONFLICTRE SOLUTION APPROACHES -- CRITICAL THEORY AND REFLEXIVE MORAL INTROSPECTION -- CRITICAL THEORY AND PEACE RESEARCH -- MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND VALUE-ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE POSITIVE NATURE OF PEACE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 - THE MORALITY OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: A CRITIQUE OF THE STATE SYSTEM AND ITS MANAGEMENT OF SUB-NATIONAL CONFLICT -- INTRODUCTION.

HOW DOES CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONTRIBUTE TO PEACEBUILDING? -- SUB-NATIONAL CONFLICT FORMATION -- CONCEPTUALISING ETHNICITY -- POLITICISED ETHNICITY -- TYPOLOGY OF SUB-NATIONAL GROUPS -- THE 'ETHNICISATION' OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- THE MULTI-ETHNIC STATE IN CONTEXT -- THE CENTRALISED PREDATORY STATE AND THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF DOMINATION -- POLITICISED ETHNICITIES AND THE COLLAPSE OF STATES -- THE DE-LEGITIMATION OF THE NATION-STATE -- SECESSION VS RECOGNITION: THE TENSION BETWEEN STATE FORMATION AND ETHNIC AUTONOMY -- THE MORALITY OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THE INTER-STATE SYSTEM -- STATE-CENTRIC MECHANISMS FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING -- CHARTING A POLITICAL ETHIC OF RESPONSIBILITY: TOWARDS A MORAL FRAMEWORK FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACEBUILDING -- THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: TRANSFORMING MICRO-/MESO-LEVEL PRINCIPLES TO THE MACRO LEVEL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 - THE UTILITY OF NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ETHICS OF NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION -- CONTEXTUALISING NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION -- THE MORALITY OF PACIFIC DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS -- THE LEAGUE'S EFFORTS IN FORGING AN ETHICAL PEACE IN THE ALAND ISLANDS -- PACIFIC DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN UPPER SILESIA -- PLEBISCITES AS A MORAL MECHANISM FOR MANAGING TENSION: THE SAAR REGION -- THE ETHICS OF THE LEAGUE'S PACIFIC DISPUTE SETTLEMENT FRAMEWORK -- THE LIMITS OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS' PACIFIC DISPUTE SETTLEMENT MECHANISM -- DOES THE UNITED NATIONS HAVE AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PEACEMAKING? -- ETHICAL EGOISM, POWER POLITICS AND THIRD PARTYINTERVENTION IN THE COLD WAR -- ILLUSTRATIONS OF POWER-POLITICAL INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION -- THE UN'S ATTEMPT TO OPERATIONALISE ETHICAL PEACEMAKING -- EFFORTS TO REVIVE THE UN'S THIRD-PARTY ROLE IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA.

THE UN MEDIATION SUPPORT UNIT: PROSPECTS FOR REVITALISING ETHICAL MEDIATION -- NON-OFFICIAL THIRD-PARTY INTERVENTION EFFORTS -- MORAL MEDIATION: QUAKER INTERVENTIONS DURING THE COLD WAR -- ORIGINS OF THE QUAKER BELIEF SYSTEM -- THE QUAKER APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION -- QUAKER MEDIATION IN BIAFRA: A CASE OF ETHICAL MEDIATION IN NIGERIA, 1967-70 -- ASSESSING QUAKER ETHICS OF MEDIATION -- INSIGHTS FROM QUAKER MEDIATION -- THE MENNONITES AND INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING -- ETHICAL NEGOTIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ONGOING VIOLENT CONFRONTATION -- MEDIATION AS MORAL LEARNING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 - THE VIRTUE OF FORGIVENESS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ETHICS OF FORGIVENESS -- A PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR GRANTING FORGIVENESS: MORAL EXCLUSION AND THE NEED FOR FORGIVENESS -- MORAL DEVELOPMENT AS THE BASIS FOR FORGIVENESS: HABERMAS AND THE ETHICAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION -- KOHLBERG'S MODEL FOR MORAL DEVELOPMENT -- KOHLBERG'S STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT -- GENDERED REVISIONS OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT -- MORAL DISCOURSE AND DEVELOPMENT: INSIGHTS INTO THE ETHICS OF FORGIVENESS -- PERCEPTIONS OF FORGIVENESS -- FORGIVENESS IN PRACTICE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 - THE VALUE OF RECONCILIATION -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RECONCILIATION -- THE INTERFACE BETWEEN RECONCILIATION, PEACEBUILDING AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE -- CONTEXTUALISING POSITIVE PEACEBUILDING IN AFRICA -- COLONIAL INJUSTICE -- THE CHALLENGE OF POST-CONFLICTPEACE BUILDING IN AFRICA -- THE PEACE WITH JUSTICE MATRIX -- PUNITIVE AND RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE VS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE -- POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE: THE CASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT -- COURTS OR COMMISSIONS? THE DILEMMAS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION -- THE CASE FOR RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURE TO PEACE WITH JUSTICE.

INDIGENOUS APPROACHES TO PEACEBUILDING: A MODEL FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE? -- THE UBUNTU NEXUS BETWEEN PEACEBUILDING AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE -- STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING A JUST PEACE AS A BASIS FOR RECONCILIATION -- THE LIMITS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 - TOWARDS AN AGENDA FOR ETHICAL PEACEBUILDING -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PERSISTENCE OF VIOLENT CONFLICT -- SUB-NATIONAL DISPUTES AS MORAL CONFLICTS -- VIOLENCE AS COMMUNICATION: TOWARDS A SUB-NATIONAL CONFLICTOLOGY -- ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO PROMOTE ETHICAL PEACEBUILDING -- CAN THE UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION PROMOTE ETHICAL PEACEBUILDING? -- THE FUNCTIONS OF THE UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION -- AN ETHICAL AGENDA FOR PEACEBUILDING AND POST-NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE -- REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF PEACEBUILDING AND GOVERNANCE -- MORAL CITIZENS BUILDING PEACE: EDUCATING FOR ETHICAL PEACEBUILDING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 - CONCLUSION -- INDEX.