Can Peace Research Make Peace?

This book is about the process and, more generally, about the opportunities that peace research and the teaching of conflict resolution can offer academic diplomacy. As such the book is both an empirical and a theoretical project. While it aims at being the most comprehensive analysis of the conflict in West Kalimantan, it also launches a new theoretical approach, neo-pragmatism, and offers lessons for the prevention of conflicts elsewhere.

Timo KivimÃ-ki is Professor of international relations with particular expertise in peace and conflict studies at the University of Bath. Previously he has held professorships at the University of Helsinki, University of Lapland, and at the University of Copenhagen. Professor KivimÃ-ki has also been director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen) and the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Helsinki. In addition to purely academic work Professor KivimÃ-ki has been a frequent consultant to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Swedish governments, as well as to several UN and EU organizations on conflict and terrorism. He was President Martti Ahtisaari's (mediators) adviser in the Aceh peace talks, and the initiator of the West Kalimantan peace process, led by Indonesia's Vice President, Jusuf Kalla. Dr KivimÃ-ki's latest book, The Long Peace of East Asia was published by Ashgate in 2014.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 What Kind of Junctures on the Path to Conflict Should Peace Research be Focused on?; Chapter 3 Junctures on the Path to Conflict; Chapter 4 Can the Path to Conflict be Blocked or Redirected?;