The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025). The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries. Nice cover and blurb below. Congrats !
The book explores all the modern processes used to handle and resolve international conflicts and disputes, combining analysis of formal public and private international law (e.g. formal adjudicative tribunals and arbitration) with less formal processes (diplomatic negotiations, mediation and newer hybrid fora for dispute resolution and peace seeking (e.g. restorative and transitional justice). Adopting a socio-legal perspective of “process pluralism,” the book uses case studies and examples of wicked problems (e.g. environmental issues, hybrid warfare and looted art) as well as international investment and ongoing intractable conflicts to focus on how international law and conflict resolution is actually conducted in our highly conflictual world. This is an interdisciplinary text that draws on the concepts, practices and data from law and other social sciences. One size will not fit all–modern dispute resolution requires a repertoire of “appropriate to the context” (ADR) processes. The book features some discussion of innovations in the field with online dispute resolution, ethics in international dispute resolution and dispute system design.