Providing a broad overview on civilian conflict resolution the book assemblies seven contributions from internationally well-known scholars, practitioners, and trainers. The editor aims to address this topic of fast growing importance from various angles, at different levels, and with distinct perspectives concerning action to be taken. The experts address the following main subjects: civilian conflict resolution in the context of international peace promotion (G. Baechler); mediation in an advisory organization (F. Glasl); empirical re-search on the state of the art in international mediation (J. Bercovitch); social-psychological contributions to peace-building in the Middle East (H. Kelman); African traditional conflict "medicine" (W. Zartman); NGO-involvement in conflict resolution (N. Ropers); the role of training in conflict transformation (D. Francis).