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NGOs Mediating Peace
This book explores the role of nongovernmental mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The influx of NGO mediators directly engaging with the negotiating parties and promoting the inclusivity norm coupled with the salience of discourse around “all-inclusiveness” at the end of the NCA…
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- 978-3-031-42174-7
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXI, 218
Adaptive Peacebuilding
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs …
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- 978-3-031-18219-8
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXVII, 321
Actors and the Art of Performance
Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university …
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- 978-1-137-59634-5
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XI, 120
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.
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- 978-3-031-06776-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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- XXVII, 377
Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland
This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural dip…
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- 978-3-031-12205-7
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- Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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- XVII, 258
Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
This is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license The history of Charismatic Christianity in the Nordic countries reaches as far back as Pentecostalism itself. The bounds of these categories remain a topic of discussion, but Nordic countries have played a vital role in developing this rapidly spreading form of world-wide Christianity. Until now, research on global Charismatic Christianity has lar…
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- 978-3-319-69614-0
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- Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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- XVI, 248
The Future of India's Social Safety Nets
India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's independence. This open-access book includes key learnings about the conceptualization, design, and impac…
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- 978-3-031-50747-2
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- Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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- XXIX, 439
Food Economics
Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This open access textbook begins with economic principles derived using graphical techniques to explain and predict observed prices, quantities, and other outcomes as a result of individual choices influence…
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- 978-3-031-53840-7
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- Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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- XXVII, 476
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design and implement development interventions in relation to food securi…
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- 978-3-031-23535-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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- XXI, 413
Travel Writings on Asia
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnat…
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- 978-981-19-0124-9
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- Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
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- XIV, 310
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