Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed

A standard text on social conflict, which covers key research in the field. This edition has been updated and rewritten, with new co-author Sung Hee Kim, and no

This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to researching human behavior relating details of interaction to social structure.

Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for a

The second part of a set of four volumes seeking to provide an historical and theoretical perspective for consideration of theory and practice in conflict resol