This chapter reviews tourism's capacity to contribute to human well-being, human rights recognition, conflict resolution, justice and peace. It takes a critical perspective, challenging the tourism industry's public relations agendas of peace through tourism and pro-poor tourism (PPT) whose promise ...

The objectives of this book are threefold: (i) to identify and learn from examples of a positive relationship between tourism and peace; (ii) to make available the output of and to stimulate further academic research and scholarship focused on the tourism and peace proposition; and (iii) to move on ...

This chapter deals with the newly constructed internal political 'borders' of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), which divide B&H citizens by their ethnic background, thus recreating the unfinished discourse of a national identity. It considers tourism as the discourse under which the importance ...

This chapter looks at the impact of the Cyprus political situation on tourism and discusses the probable effects of a settlement of the Cyprus problem on the tourism industry in the two parts of the divided island. It is founded upon the hypothesis that a political solution of the Cyprus problem...

This chapter examines the role of tourism in encouraging reconciliation in the aftermath of conflict. It reviews the conditions (episodic and prolonged) that have contributed to a need for reconciliation, and the processes by which it has been pursued at national and community levels, and describes ...

The focus of this chapter is on understanding how positive social impacts can be created and leveraged through sport events to achieve lasting peaceful outcomes for disparate communities. The chapter presents findings from a larger study that examined two 'sport for development' event projects in...