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Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development

ISSN: 1572-8323
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Title:	Introduction
Author(s):	Giuseppe Caforio, Gerhard Kümmel
Volume:	2 Editor(s): Giuseppe Caforio, Gerhard Kümmel ISBN: 978-0-44451-960-3 eISBN: 978-1-84950-012-8
Citation:	Giuseppe Caforio, Gerhard Kümmel (2005), Introduction, in Giuseppe Caforio, Gerhard Kümmel (ed.) Military Missions and their Implications Reconsidered: The Aftermath of September 11th (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Volume 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.3-5
DOI:	10.1016/S1572-8323(05)02001-1 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Since the suicide terrorist attacks of September Eleven, security issues have become more prominent again. There is also an increased interest in the military since the military was and still is seen as a major instrument in the so-called ‘war on terror’. The current international situation has thus increased the importance, significance and urgency of a correct, broad-based research effort on the part of the social sciences to study the emergence and development of conflicts with an eye on the means of conflict resolution. In this context, it is also appropriate and necessary to analyse one, albeit ambivalent, instrument of conflict resolution, the armed forces. Today, the military is said to face new and broader tasks than in the past.