This book explores the nature of insurgency in the post Cold War. It proposes a bold new post structuralist theoretical framework and practical democratic strategies. A wide range of contributors, many with hands-on experience, examine conflicts and conflict resolution in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Ireland, along with original studies of Islam and globalization and of the "engendering" of war.

Ronaldo Munck is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool.

Purnaka L. de Silva is Lecturer in Political Science at the School of Politics and the Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University of Belfast.

Deconstructing Terror: Insurgency, Repression, and Peace--Ronald Munck * Private, Public, and Political: Learning Processes of the Revolutionary Left in Argentina--María Matilde Ollier * Political Processes and Identity Formation in El Salvador: From Armed Left to Democratic Left--Gerardo L. Munck & Dextor Boniface * South Africa: From "Racial Conflict" to Democratic Settlement?--Alan Emery & Rupert Taylor * Northern Ireland: From Long War to Difficult Peace?--Ronaldo Munck * Ethiopia: Success Story or State of Chaos?--Aregawi Berhe * Palestinian Authority, Israeli Rule: From Transitional to Permanent Arrangement?--Mouin Rabbani * Somalia After the Cold War: Anarchic Factionalism, Intervention or Peacemaking?--Abdulla A. Mohamoud * Sri Lankan Futures: Conflicts, Alternative, and Twenty-First Century Possibilities--Purnaka L. de Silva * Women, War, and Peace: Engendering Conflict in Post-Structuralist Perspective--Honor Fagan * Islamisms: Globalization, Religion, and Power--Azza M. Karam * Post-Cold War Futures: Peacemaking, Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action--Purnaka L. de Silva

Deconstructing Terror: Insurgency, Repression, and Peace--Ronald Munck * Private, Public, and Political: Learning Processes of the Revolutionary Left in Argentina--María Matilde Ollier * Political Processes and Identity Formation in El Salvador: From Armed Left to Democratic Left--Gerardo L. Munck & Dextor Boniface * South Africa: From "Racial Conflict" to Democratic Settlement?--Alan Emery & Rupert Taylor * Northern Ireland: From Long War to Difficult Peace?--Ronaldo Munck * Ethiopia: Success Story or State of Chaos?--Aregawi Berhe * Palestinian Authority, Israeli Rule: From Transitional to Permanent Arrangement?--Mouin Rabbani * Somalia After the Cold War: Anarchic Factionalism, Intervention or Peacemaking?--Abdulla A. Mohamoud * Sri Lankan Futures: Conflicts, Alternative, and Twenty-First Century Possibilities--Purnaka L. de Silva * Women, War, and Peace: Engendering Conflict in Post-Structuralist Perspective--Honor Fagan * Islamisms: Globalization, Religion, and Power--Azza M. Karam * Post-Cold War Futures: Peacemaking, Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action--Purnaka L. de Silva