MA Oxon., PhD Brad.  

Prof. Ramsbotham joined the Department in 1991 and became involved with the CCR from 1992 as research director.  His main interests are in the development of conflict resolution theory, especially in relation to the question of humanitarian intervention and humanitarian assistance to people who are victims of conflict; in the ethics of peace; and in the ideas and representations of peace and conflict in the main religious traditions (especially in Islam and Christianity). He is the author, with Tom Woodhouse of Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict (1996); The Crescent and the Cross: Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace (1997); and Islam, Christianity and Humanitarian Intervention (1997).

Prof. Ramsbotham has published in three main areas.  First, in the field of Conflict Resolution, he has published Contemporary Conflict  Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflict (Polity Press), co-authored with Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall. This is a  systematic survey of the whole conflict resolution field today, and reflects  long-standing research interests and a broad programme of conflict resolution  theory and practice teaching over many years. Tim Garden, reviewing the book in  the Times Higher Education Supplement, says that it 'deserves to become a  standard work in the field'. Second (also co-authored with Tom Woodhouse) he has published an Encyclopedia of International Peacekeeping Operations (ABC-CLIO), a comprehensive source-book on all aspects of current and past peacekeeping, including extensive analyses of all peacekeeping operations up to  the time of publication. Third, with Paul Rogers, he presented a paper on 'Peace Research - Past and Future' at the Political Studies Association conference in  Nottingham, since published in the autumn 1999 issue of Political  Studies. Finally, among other activities, conference papers and publications, he has been bringing together work in the first two fields by  co-editing and contributing to an International Peacekeeping special issue on 'Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution'.

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Email: o.p.ramsbotham@bradford.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1274 234199
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