ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oliver Ramsbotham is Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK which he headed from 1999 to 2002. He is also Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Research Group.
Prof. Ramsbotham has published, together with Hugh Miall and Tom Woodhouse, a major study of the conflict resolution field, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Resolution of Deadly Conflict (Polity, 1999; 2nd edition 2005). 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).
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