Prof. Tom Woodhouse - Staff Profile

NameProf. Tom Woodhouse
Contact PositionAdam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution; Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution; Academic Director Bradford Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Email Addresst.woodhouse@bradford.ac.uk

Research Areas

  • Conflict resolution and conflict theory
  • Mediation Case Studies and Quaker peacemaking
  • Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution
  • Conflict resolution and conflict prevention policies in regional security organisations
  • E-Learning Methods in Conflict Resolution education

Tom Woodhouse has worked in the Department of Peace Studies since 1974, when he was appointed as Research Assistant to Professor Adam Curle. He developed the first conflict resolution teaching and research activities in the department during the mid 1980s, and in 1990 he initiated the Centre for Conflict Resolution, serving as the founding director of the Centre between 1990 and 2000. In March 1999 he was appointed to a personal chair and took the title of Professor of Conflict Resolution (Adam Curle Chair). Recent publications include Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Polity Press, (with Oliver Ramsbotham and Hugh Miall).

Much of his research is concerned with an examination of the relationship between peacekeeping and conflict resolution. With Oliver Ramsbotham he published the Encyclopedia of International Peacekeeping Operations, ABC/CLIO, Denver/Oxford, 1999, and Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, published by Frank Cass in 2001. He wrote the first paper in a new series of occasional papers issued by the Centre for Conflict Resolution, International Conflict Resolution: Some Critiques and a Response, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Working Paper 1, June 1999 (Department of Peace Studies). The extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Conflict Resolution was published in 2005, and in 2007 a contract was agreed with Akashi Shoten to publish the book in Japanese. He is the general editor of the Routledge series Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution. With the support of the Southall Trust he is also exploring the best ways of making peace and conflict teaching resources more easily accessible and available via the internet.

He is currently finishing an article which will appear in the November 2007 issue of International Affairs entitled 'Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: What can Africa contribute?' (with David Curran), and is currently contracted with Routeledge to publish a book entitled Twenty First Century Peacekeeping, due in 2008.

He is also developing online learning courses in Conflict Resolution for the Southall Trust: For further information see http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/learning

Bibliography

  • Woodhouse, T., `Conflict and conflict resolution¿, in The Elgar Companion to Development Studies¿, edited by Clark, D.A., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, pp. 76-81
  • `Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and the globalisation of security¿, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 139-156.
  • Woodhouse, T , Miall, H and Ramsbotham, O., Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Blackwell/Polity Press Cambridge, pp320, 2005.
  • Contemporary Conflict Resolution. Sorenson, D. and Wood P C (eds): The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post Cold War Era, Frank Cass London 2005 (chapter on British Peacekeeping Post Cold War)
  • Peacekeeing and Conflict Resolution. Woodhouse, T, Hansen, W and Ramsbotham, O., `Hawks and Doves: Peacekeeping as Conflict Resolution¿, Handbook of International Conflict Management, Berghof Institute, Berlin, 2001.
  • Woodhouse, T and Ramsbotham, O., Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, Frank Cass, 2000.
  • Woodhouse, T and Ramsbotham, O., Encyclopedia of International Peacekeeping Operations, ABC-CLIO, Oxford/Denver, Colorado, 356 pp, 1999.
  • `Preventive medicine: can conflicts be prevented? The evidence suggests that conflict prevention can work¿, British Medical Journal, 14 August 1999, pp. 396-397 (Editorial)
  • Ramsbotham O, Woodhouse, T., `Towards a Peacebuilding Framework¿, Journal of Peace Research and Action, Routes, Vol 4, No 2, pp24-30, 1999
  • Woodhouse, T., ¿The Gentle Hand of Peace? British Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution in Complex Political Emergencies¿, International Peacekeeping 6, no. 2, (Summer 1999)
  • B. Fetherston, O. Ramsbotham, T. Woodhouse "UNPROFOR: some observations from a conflict resolution perspective"(1994) International Peacekeeping Vol.1, No.2, pp. 179-203.

Editor

Editor of Routledge Series Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution. Two titles published to date

  • Sandole, D. (2007), Peace and Security in the post modern world: the OSCE and Conflict Resolution:
  • Breen Smyth, M. (2007), Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts