Conflict Resolution and Peace Building : Aakar Books : 9788182748057 : 30 May 2014 : In the last decade-and-a-half, conflict studies has emerged as a distinct discipline in India. Over the years, there have been conscious and continuous efforts by the international community to build certain institutional arrangements to prevent international conflicts from escalating into war and, if they did, to maintain them at the manageable levels and resolve them at the earliest. Likewise, the subject field of conflict studies has directed its energies on the one hand to understand the nature and causes of conflict and, on the other, to evaluate the methods, procedures and practices employed to resolve it. In today's world, international organizations - both global and regional - have come to play a crucial role in preventing, managing, and containing conflict, and if conflict escalates, in peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. The precipitous proliferation of