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The Conflict Research Society (UK) has named Kevin Avruch’s book, Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Culture, Identity, Power and Practice as one of two “CRS Books of the Year 2014.” The honor is shared with Cederman, Gleditsch and Buhaug’s Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War.
Avruch will receive the award at the annual CRS conference, hosted by Leeds University, UK, in September 2014. The CRS celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. Among its founders were John Burton and Chris Mitchell.
The first recipients of the award were Nigel Young and co-editors for The Oxford International Encyclopedia for Peace (2010); in 2011 the award went to Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall for their book, Contemporary Conflict Resolution; in 2012 the award went to John Paul Lederach and Angie Lederach for their book ‘When blood and bones cry out: journeys through the soundscape of healing and reconciliation’; and this year the award went jointly to Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causesand Joshua Goldstein’s Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide.
The year 2013 marks our fiftieth anniversary and we are delighted to be setting out on our next fifty years by giving you this award.
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