Building Peace Through Knowledge

Author : Alean Al-Krenawi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319562797

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Building Peace Through Knowledge by Alean Al-Krenawi Pdf

This groundbreaking volume documents a comprehensive peacebuilding initiative in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reviews the broad theoretical base underlying these efforts. Theory chapters discuss intrinsic peace-related concepts, including the nature of conflict, elements of individual and group identity, the long-term psychological effects of prolonged political hostilities, and the mechanisms of reconciliation and inclusiveness. Central to the coverage is the ambitious Building Peace through Knowledge Project, a four-year multidisciplinary program featuring a diverse palette of professional and community interventions to reduce the occurrence and trauma of political violence. The author reveals powerful insights connecting knowledge to peacebuilding by analyzing: · The relationships between attitudes and ideology in intergroup conflict. · The psychosocial impact of political violence among Israelis and Palestinians. · The literature on people-to-people interventions (P2Ps) in conflict reduction. · The roles of forgiveness, reconciliation, and fairness in conflict resolution. · The methodology and findings of the Building Peace through Knowledge Project. · The potential of knowledge-based interventions in building sustainable peace in other regions. Practitioners, mental health professionals, and scholars with interests in multicultural mental health, cross-cultural psychology, political violence, and peace education will look to Building Peace through Knowledge as an ideabook, a mission statement, and a road map toward a more stable world.

Author : Briony Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789905359

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Knowledge for Peace by Briony Jones Pdf

Combining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to designing and analysing peacebuilding and transitional justice programmes. Exploring how knowledge in the field is produced, and by whom, the book examines the research-policy-practice nexus, both empirically and conceptually, as an important part of the politics of knowledge production.

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815627227

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Preparing For Peace by John Paul Lederach Pdf

Since the early 1980s John Paul Lederach has traveled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. Currently the director of the International Conciliation Committee, he has worked with governments, justice departments, youth programs, and other groups in Latin America, the Philippines, Cambodia, as well as Asia and Africa. Lederach blends a special training method in mediation with a tradition derived from his work in development. Throughout the book, he uses anecdote and pertinent experiences to demonstrate his resolution techniques. With an emphasis on the exchange involved in negotiation, Lederach conveys the key to successful conflict resolution: understanding how to guide disputants, transform their conflicts, and launch a process that empowers them.

Author : Rachel Nolte-Laird
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811660139

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Peacebuilding Online by Rachel Nolte-Laird Pdf

This study takes the work of transforming violence and conflict online and offers insight into the practice of dialogue in virtual settings for peacebuilding purposes. In the field of peace and conflict studies and peacebuilding practices, a significant amount of literature has dealt with the theory and practice of dialogue in face-to-face settings. This project is unique as it takes the peacebuilding practice of dialogue and explores it within an online context. The research is framed and analyzed through the dialogue theories of Martin Buber and Paulo Freire. This project is distinct in its exploration of the connection between dialogue encounters and positive peace, the practical linkages of which are often difficult to articulate or identify. As such, this book offers unique contributions to the knowledge and understanding of dialogue-based peacebuilding in online settings and provides an understanding of how dialogue practices enable outcomes within the construct of positive peace. This book is aimed at academics as a presentation of research into a relatively unexplored field of inquiry. However, it is also relevant and applicable for peacebuilding practitioners who want to navigate taking their practices into online settings and provide a framework for linking practices to intended positive peace outcomes.

Author : Terence McNamee,Monde Muyangwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030466367

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The State of Peacebuilding in Africa by Terence McNamee,Monde Muyangwa Pdf

This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; the role of women, religion, humanitarianism, grassroots organizations, and early warning systems; and the impact of global, regional, and continental bodies. The book's thematic chapters are complemented by six country/region case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan/South Sudan, Mozambique and the Sahel/Mali. Each chapter concludes with a set of key lessons learned that could be used to inform the building of a more sustainable peace in Africa. The State of Peacebuilding in Africa was born out of the activities of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), a Carnegie-funded, continent-wide network of African organizations that works with the Wilson Center to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199747580

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The Moral Imagination by John Paul Lederach Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 2005.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789230012175

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Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Dane F. Smith Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313382635

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U.S. Peacefare by Dane F. Smith Jr. Pdf

This book provides a survey of the U.S. civilian and military agencies responsible for postconflict reconstruction and peace-building around the world and how these agencies function in the interagency process. U.S. Peacefare: Organizing American Peace-Building Operations surveys the evolution of the American peace-building apparatus during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, with an emphasis on changes since 2003, when the invasion of Iraq led the Bush Administration to adopt a Clinton-style nation-building approach they had previously vigorously opposed. U.S. Peacefare begins with a historical overview of official U.S. peace-building, then looks at the organization and interaction of the major federal agencies in the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department, as well the U.S. Institute for Peace, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Throughout, author and former Ambassador Dane Smith emphasizes how a deeper understanding of peace-building organizations and their interactions in particular cases is essential to strengthening future U.S. conflict management. The book addresses the critical overall issue of how peace-building is funded, but within the federal budget and internationally, and concludes with Smith's recommendations for reforming those organizations.

Author : Dennis J. D. Sandole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745655802

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Peacebuilding by Dennis J. D. Sandole Pdf

Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world’s most turbulent regions has become the new global imperative. But to be effective, peacebuilding must be a multilateral, not a unilateral process. Even for the world’s sole surviving superpower, promoting and sustaining durable peace requires communication, co-ordination, co-operation, and collaboration between local, national and international actors, nongovernmental as well as governmental. In this book, Dennis Sandole explores the theory and practice of peacebuilding, discussing the differences and similarities between core aspects of peace processes, namely violent conflict prevention; conflict management; conflict settlement; conflict resolution and conflict transformation. Assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student reader, the volume distinguishes between proactive and reactive peacebuilding as strategies to pre-empt or otherwise respond to global problems, such as identity conflicts, failing/failed states, terrorism, pandemics, poverty, forced migrations, climate change, ecological degradation, and their combined effects. Drawing on a wide range of conflicts such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, South Africa and Macedonia, the book debates the 'lessons learned' from past experiences of reactive as well as proactive peacebuilding, plus the challenges which lie ahead for those striving to bring about sustainable peace, security and stability to war-torn or otherwise fragile regions of the globe.

Author : Mansell, Robin,Tremblay, Gaëtan
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789230012151

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Renewing the knowledge societies vision for peace and sustainable development by Mansell, Robin,Tremblay, Gaëtan Pdf

Author : Catherine Goetze
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472053414

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The Distinction of Peace by Catherine Goetze Pdf

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

Author : Tracey Holland,J. Paul Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135967949

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Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding by Tracey Holland,J. Paul Martin Pdf

This book assesses the role of human rights education (HRE) in the peacebuilding field. Today, most governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisations recognise the importance of human rights in peace- and democracy-building activities in post-conflict regions. However, compared with other components of peacebuilding, little attention and funding have been given to the cultivation of human rights knowledge and skills within these populations. Almost nothing has been committed to understanding how HRE is best accomplished in such difficult circumstances. Human Rights Education and Peacebuilding demonstrates the promise of HRE programs to help bring about peace within challenging post-conflict contexts. Each chapter of this book (a) identifies the short and medium term impacts of seven different HRE programs on their respective target groups, and (b) provides an analysis of the peculiar local contextual factors that influenced each program’s rationale for human rights education. More specifically, each chapter addresses these critical questions: - How are communities around the world using HRE to help rebuild their lives in the aftermath of an armed conflict? - How does HRE respond local problems and needs? How similar are the human rights impacts in the different projects? - How can we understand the promise and challenges associated with HRE as a component of community peace-building? This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, human rights, education studies and IR in general.

Author : Onyebadi, Uche T.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522550808

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Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas by Onyebadi, Uche T. Pdf

Members of diasporic populations often have a unique, dual persona consisting of one’s migrant role as a permanent or transient member of a new country and one’s role as a citizen of one’s home country. Like all diaspora, the African diaspora is further composed of sub-groups of people of a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, such that there is a need for studies that properly encompass and address the African diaspora across a multitude of fields and pedagogies, including architecture, education, and business. Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas is a pivotal reference source that explores the philosophical and epistemological issues regarding the African diaspora identity and navigates these individuals’ opportunities for professional and academic growth. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics such as higher education, cultural engagement, and xenophobia, this publication is ideally designed for sociologists, anthropologists, humanities scholars, political scientists, cultural studies academicians, university board members, researchers, and students.

Author : John Paul Lederach
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815627254

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Preparing For Peace by John Paul Lederach Pdf

Since the early 1980s John Paul Lederach has traveled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. Currently the director of the International Conciliation Committee, he has worked with governments, justice departments, youth programs, and other groups in Latin America, the Philippines, Cambodia, as well as Asia and Africa. Lederach blends a special training method in mediation with a tradition derived from his work in development. Throughout the book, he uses anecdote and pertinent experiences to demonstrate his resolution techniques. With an emphasis on the exchange involved in negotiation, Lederach conveys the key to successful conflict resolution: understanding how to guide disputants, transform their conflicts, and launch a process that empowers them.

Author : Karin Aggestam,Annika Björkdahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136260001

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Rethinking Peacebuilding by Karin Aggestam,Annika Björkdahl Pdf

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are commonly referred to there is surprisingly little research and few conceptualizations of the interplay between the two. This edited volume is the result of three years of collaborative research and draws upon insights from such disciplines as peace and conflict, international law, political science and international relations. It contains policy-relevant knowledge about effective peacebuilding strategies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the contemporary peace processes in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches, the work makes an original contribution to the growing literature on peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics and IR/Security Studies.