Beyond Ceasefire

Author : Martin Hartberg
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 9781780772295

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Beyond Ceasefire by Martin Hartberg Pdf

The ceasefire agreed between the Government of Israel and Hamas on 21 November 2012, following the recent military escalation in Gaza and southern Israel, provides an unprecedented opportunity to end the cycle of violence that has affected too many innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians. In the ceasefire understanding, the parties agreed to negotiate opening the crossings into the Gaza Strip and to put an end to restricting residents free movement and targeting residents in border areas. It is therefore also a unique chance to once and for all lift the Israeli blockade on Gaza, which has had a devastating impact on the lives and well-being of Gaza's civilian population and on Palestinian development. In this briefing note Oxfam sets out practical recommendations to better protect civilians on both sides from violence and to finally achieve an end to the collective punishment of Gaza's 1.6 million residents, while addressing Israel's security concerns. These are necessary steps towards lasting peace in the region and the creation of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Author : Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429722325

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Beyond Yugoslavia by Sabrina Petra Ramet Pdf

The fruit of a landmark international collaboration, this book focuses on the final years of socialist Yugoslavia and on the beginning of the country's breakup. With chapters devoted to each of erstwhile Yugoslavia's six republics, the book also offers a unique blend of thematic essays on political, cultural, economic, environmental, religious, and foreign policy issues. Bringing together renowned scholars from the United States, Great Britain, Serbia, and Croatia, the book shows how disintegrative tendencies penetrated and affected all spheres of life in Yugoslavia. The resultant war has, therefore, been fought not only on military and diplomatic fronts, but also at the level of economics, through literature and film, and in the spheres of religion and gender relations.

Author : Erika Gebo,Brenda J. Bond
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739150160

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Looking Beyond Suppression by Erika Gebo,Brenda J. Bond Pdf

This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policies and practices. As community-wide efforts become more common, it is increasingly important to investigate effective strategies to address social problems. Beyond Suppression: Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence explores a demonstration project of one state's efforts to reduce gang and youth violence through use of a comprehensive initiative, the Comprehensive Gang Model (CGM). The relevance of the CGM as a conceptual framework to guide gang policy and practice is illustrated throughout the book, and tailored gang reduction strategies derived from that framework and rooted in the ecological constitution of communities are showcased. The chapters highlight implementation strategies employed by various communities using a case study methodology that assists in garnering an in-depth perspective of implementation issues and key dimensions of the CGM. This book answers important questions about how communities operationalize the CGM. The results of these investigations are important for scholars, learners, and practitioners who seek to address gang violence using a customized response.

Author : Joan Serra Hoffman,Lyndee Knox,Robert Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313383465

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Beyond Suppression by Joan Serra Hoffman,Lyndee Knox,Robert Cohen Pdf

This examination of youth violence provides readers with insights from international experts and real-life examples of how nations and communities around the world have successfully dealt with the issue. The magnitude of the problem of youth violence in nations throughout the world is shocking. What is encouraging is that strategies to combat this issue do appear to work. For example, community-based restorative justice programs in Northern Ireland reduced retaliatory strikes by paramilitary youth groups by 75 percent, and research trials of policy and intervention strategies, such as parent training and early childhood education, have been shown to significantly reduce youth violence. This text offers a comprehensive overview of youth violence, including background information that defines the problem internationally, a conceptual framework for understanding approaches to youth violence, examinations of multiple case studies, and examples of prevention programs. The final section presents conclusions and suggested strategies for dealing with interpersonal violence and recommendations for future policy.

Author : Geoffrey W. Jensen,Matthew M. Stith
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574417586

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Beyond the Quagmire by Geoffrey W. Jensen,Matthew M. Stith Pdf

In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. Americans believed that they were supposed to win in Vietnam. As veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo observed in A Rumor of War, “we carried, along with our packs and rifles, the implicit convictions that the Viet Cong would be quickly beaten and that we were doing something altogether noble and good.” By 1968, though, Vietnam looked less like World War II’s triumphant march and more like the brutal and costly stalemate in Korea. During that year, the United States paid dearly as nearly 17,000 perished fighting in a foreign land against an enemy that continued to frustrate them. Indeed, as Caputo noted, “We kept the packs and rifles; the convictions, we lost.” It was a time of deep introspection as questions over the legality of American involvement, political dishonesty, civil rights, counter-cultural ideas, and American overreach during the Cold War congealed in one place: Vietnam. Just as Americans fifty years ago struggled to understand the nation’s connection to Vietnam, scholars today, across disciplines, are working to come to terms with the long and bloody war—its politics, combatants, and how we remember it. The essays in Beyond the Quagmire pose new questions, offer new answers, and establish important lines of debate regarding social, political, military, and memory studies. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 contains four chapters by scholars who explore the politics of war in the Vietnam era. In Part 2, five contributors offer chapters on Vietnam combatants with analyses of race, gender, environment, and Chinese intervention. Part 3 provides four innovative and timely essays on Vietnam in history and memory. In sum, Beyond the Quagmire pushes the interpretive boundaries of America’s involvement in Vietnam on the battlefield and off, and it will play a significant role in reshaping and reinvigorating Vietnam War historiography.

Author : Michael Renner
Publisher : Worldwatch Institute
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beyond Disasters by Michael Renner Pdf

Unnatural" disasters -- The march toward disaster -- Understanding factors of vulnerability -- Storm clouds and silver linings -- Case study: Aceh : peacemaking after the Tsunami -- Case study: Sri Lanka : a "double blow" to development -- Case study: Kashmir : physical tremor, but no political earthquake -- Creating future opportunities for peace.

Author : Mahnoush H. Arsanjani
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199588916

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The Law of Treaties Beyond the Vienna Convention by Mahnoush H. Arsanjani Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the law of treaties based on the interplay between the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and customary international law. Written by a team of renowned international lawyers, it offers new insight into the basic concepts and methodology of the law of treaties and its problems.

Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608194131

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Don't Shoot by David M. Kennedy Pdf

Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution. Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street vérité of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349262632

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Beyond UN Subcontracting by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Beyond UN Subcontracting sheds light, through a series of post-Cold War case studies, on whether one United Nations' efforts both to devolve responsibility for security to regional institutions and the delivery of some of their services to international nongovernmental organisations are a step toward or away from better global governance. The cases are designed to explore patterns of interaction and to provide lessons for the future.

Author : David Lee Corley
Publisher : White Mountain Commercial LLC
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beyond Courage by David Lee Corley Pdf

How far will an American sniper go to save the lives of his fellow soldiers? Is there a line he will not cross? CIA officer Rene Granier heads up a covert team of specialists out to hunt down and annihilate the very heart of the Viet Cong. Will their merciless tactics shorten the war? Will it be worth the price? In 1966, the Vietnam War rages with no end in sight. The Americans try everything in their power to stop the flow of arms to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in the south, but nothing works. The generals at the Pentagon underestimated their enemy and the army of dedicated civilians maintaining the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Americans must do something fast and significant to turn the tide. Arclight, Iron Hand, Riverine, and Keyman are all unproven concepts that could change the course of the war. Will they work? The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese have their own plans on how to defeat their enemy. Like a worm on a hook, they use their soldiers as bait to draw the allied forces into ambushes and unleash their human-wave assaults. The more the communists fight, the less they fear. Even the Americans and their technology can be defeated. A young photojournalist is there to record history and reveal the ugly realities of war to the world. But Vietnam is not what she expects, and neither is the thrill of danger she feels. Like all the books in the Airmen Series, Beyond Courage is based on historical events and real people. Its pages are filled with combat action and heart-stopping suspense.

Author : Steven Carol,Steven S. Carol
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469761299

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From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond by Steven Carol,Steven S. Carol Pdf

From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond provides the most thorough analysis of Israel's foreign policy towards East Africa. Since its modern reestablishment, Israel has sought political allies in the international community. To achieve that goal, Israel offers technological, economic and military assistance to developing nations. Historically, four East African countries Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were prime beneficiaries of that effort. Later, these efforts were extended to Eritrea and South Sudan. Israel has been demonstrating its willingness to off er a far greater share of its limited resources to international assistance, than practically any other nation, large or small. Since 1948, Israel's foreign policy towards East Africa exemplifies these immortal words: I will also give thee [Israel] for a light to the nations, that My salvation may be unto the end of the earth. Isaiah 49:6. The chronicles of these laudable activities are little known, even to post World War II historians. No other book to date covers this subject in as much depth. Anyone seeking a more profound understanding of Israel's foreign policy, as well as its historic relationship with East Africa, will find From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond of interest.

Author : E. Biagini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401724562

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Northern Ireland and Beyond by E. Biagini Pdf

Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression and ruthless emargination of the native population by the Protestant settlers. At the time of partition, many areas already had a Catholic majority, and the Catholic population is increasing faster, thereby undermining the Protestant position. Britain gains no advantage by keeping Northern Ireland. Nevertheless, this solution is not going to be cheap, not merely because of opposition by Protestant loyalists, but also because of the economic weakness of both Irelands. Unlike other books on the subject, this one goes to the heart of the matter: Britain would be serving her own interest by easing reunification of Ireland, albeit gradually and cautiously. In this perspective, the conclusion is that history is inexorably moving beyond Northern Ireland. Audience: European Community administrators and planners, diplomats, politicians, students in Political Science, Economics, History and Geography.

Author : Nitin A Gokhale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789384052263

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Beyond NJ 9842 by Nitin A Gokhale Pdf

Operation Meghdoot was launched by the Indian Army on the barren and icy heights of the Siachen Glacier to thwart Pakistan from gaining control of this strategically located glacier. For three decades since then, Indian and Pakistani troops have been locked in an undeclared war on the world's highest – and coldest - battlefield.

Author : Katharina Thurnheer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839426012

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Life Beyond Survival by Katharina Thurnheer Pdf

At the heart of this in-depth ethnographic study lie the daily life situations of tsunami survivors in war-torn, eastern Sri Lanka. Each chapter is built around the empirical themes derived from the stories and recollections of Tamil women and their families during their stay in relief camps, anticipating relocation. The specifics of the socio-cultural context are firmly embedded in the discussions. Ten years after the tsunami, this publication offers a timely contribution to a better understanding of what it means to cope with the combined effects of disaster, war, and international aid in this matri-focal region of the island.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sudan, Entrenching Impunity by Anonim Pdf