December 2019 Now also available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in print and ebook. Authoritative but accessible, Peace Terms has been used by a wide audience, from peacebuilding practitioners and scholars to students in college courses, from participants in Academy courses and trainings to high school students doing research. To help these readers navigate this cross-disciplinary field, the USIP glossary answers such questions as: What exactly is a "conflict entrepreneur"? What do we mean by a "resource curse"? And perhaps most importantly, what is the difference between peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding? As with the first edition, the editor has consulted a wide range of online and print sources, as well as the senior staff at USIP, in the process of producing the latest version of the glossary. * Contains over 350 concise definitions, including over 70 new or revised terms. * Covers a wide range of complex and often confusing concepts. * Used by practitioners, scholars, and students.
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Peace Terms is an extensive glossary with short definitions of a wide range of complex and often confusing terms used in the field of peacebuilding. Authoritative but accessible, Peace Terms has been used by a wide audience, from peacebuilding practitioners and scholars to students in college courses.
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TABLE DES MATIERES Avant-propos par Nancy Lindborg Preface Glossaire des termes de A a Z Abreviations Equivalents francais-anglais Sources consultees Index

Product details

ISBN
9781601277176
Published
2019-10-01
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace Press
Height
228 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
01, G
Language
Product language
Fransk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
138

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Biographical note

Dan Snodderly is an editor and publishing consultant in Washington, DC. He served as USIP's director of publications from 1993 to 2004 and previously worked as an editor and writer at Cornell University Press and Encyclopaedia Britannica. His publishing clients have included Internews, The Editorial Group, Nolen & Ross Publishers, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The author of numerous articles and two books, he holds an AB degree in history from Harvard College.