Mobilizing for Peace

An examination of the place and role of voluntary organisations dedicated to the promotion of peace and the resolution of intractable social conflicts, this work focuses on the work of nongovernmental organisations in Northen Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Edited by three leading scholars of peace and conflict, Resolving Conflict brings together the work of international experts to provide an in-depth study of thirty-three peace/conflict organizations in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. The contributors show how the sociopolitical and cultural context of the conflict in each region has shaped the type of resolution organisations that have emerged and their conception of the conflict and its resolution. By promoting more humane images of the contestants and by offering alternative peaceful approaches to resolve the conflict, the organisations have successfully galvanised previously weak or non-existent pro-peace political forces to become important players in the political struggle for peace.