Paradigm Publishers

© 2007

ISBN: 1594514003

144 pages

 

edited by Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Ted Robert Gurr

 

 

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to internal civil strife to full-fledged interstate war. Peace and Conflict 2008 is a large format, full-color reference including numerous graphs, tables, maps, and appendices dedicated to the visual presentation of data. Crisp narratives are highlighted with pull-quote extracts that summarize trends and major findings.

 

The data and analysis presented in Peace and Conflict 2008 focus on the special theme of "Challenges to the Stability of States."

 

Key features include:the Peace and Conflict Instability Ledger, a ranking of the status and progress of 160 countries based on their forecasted risk of future instabilitya global survey of all international and domestic terror events since 1970large format, full-color graphs, tables, maps, and appendices throughout

 

Supplementary materials and a suite of data analysis tools appropriate for students and policy analysts can be found at the Peace and Conflict 2008 companion Web site.