{"product_id":"9780745686950","title":"Preventing Deadly Conflict","description":"\u003cp\u003eConflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSo how does prevention work when it works, and what can be done when tried and tested practices fail? In this book, I. William Zartman offers a clear and authoritative guide to the key challenges of conflict prevention and the norms, processes and methods used to dampen and diffuse inter and intra-state conflict in the contemporary world. Early-stage techniques including 'awareness' 'de-escalation', 'stalemate', 'ripening', and 'resolution', are explored in full alongside the late or 'crisis' stage techniques of 'interruption', 'separation' and 'integration'. Prevention, he argues, is a battle that is never won: there is always more work to be done. The search for prevention - necessary but still imperfect - continues into new imperatives, new mechanisms, new agents, and new knowledge, which this book helps discover and apply.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106933162224,"sku":"9780745686950","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745686950_p0.jpg?v=1763634581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745686950","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}