* Offers strategies for conflict transformation, based on a "conflict prevention toolbox," which deals with all aspects of the conflict cycle * Burundi and Macedonia make powerful case studies
Breaking Cycles of Violence studies how the international community, working with local partners, can effectively pinpoint key breaking points and target resources for societies at risk of violent conflict.
This book provides policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students with a framework for recognizing and tackling the complexities of internal and intrastate conflicts in order to avert violence and mass human suffering. It presents guidelines for using early warning indicators to assess the causes of conflict; using preventative action to contain it; and using multidimensional strategies to rehabilitate societies through the cycle of post-conflict peacebuilding.
Dr. Janie Leatherman is director of international studies and professor of politics at Fairfield University. Her most recent publications include Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict (Polity Press, 2011). She has two edited volumes, Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control, (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), and Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance, edited with Julie Webber (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Other books include From Cold War to Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change and the OSCE (Syracuse University Press, 2003); and Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises, co-authored with Raimo Väyrynen, William DeMars and Patrick Gaffney (Kumarian, 1999). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), conflict early warning and prevention, gender and violence, sex-trafficking, foreign policy and transnational politics. Her current research projects focus on the global collapse of safe space, and climate change, natural disasters and human trafficking.
Dr. Leatherman has served as a trainer in conflict resolution, and has consulted with an array of agencies and international organizations, including the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, the United Nations University, Catholic Relief Services, Search for Common Ground, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). She has recieved dozens of grants from national and international funding sources, including the United States Institute of Peace, US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Pew Foundation, Swedish Government, and also the Fulbright-Hayes and American Scandinavian dissertation fellowships.
Dr. Leatherman was previously director of international affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, and co-director of peace and conflict resolution studies, and professor in the Department of Politics and Government from 1997 to 2006. She was a visiting fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (1992-1997), and visiting assistant professor at Macalester College (1989-1991). She served as Director of Brethren Colleges Abroad and taught at the University of Barcelona from 1991 to 1992. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies in 1991.
