Convincing Rebel Fighters To Disarm

Author : Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110469776

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Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob Pdf

One of the key mission objectives of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) was to disarm and repatriate foreign combatants in the eastern region of the country. To achieve this, MONUC adopted a „push and pull" strategy. This involved applying military pressure while at the same time offering opportunities for voluntary disarmament and repatriation for armed combatants of the elusive but deadly Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) – a predominantly Rwandan Hutu armed group in eastern DRC. As part of its "pull" strategy, MONUC embarked on one of the most sophisticated Information Operations (IO) campaigns in UN history with the core objective of convincing thousands of individual combatants and commanders of the FDLR to voluntarily disarm and join the UN’s Demobilization, Disarmament, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration programme (DDRRR). This book is derived from studies of the narratives, coordination and effectiveness of the UN’s IO in support of DDRRR and how the UN has integrated IO as part of its Mission peace support operations. This book advances contemporary understanding of the relative importance of communication models and their interactions within conflict settings. It provides instruments with which conflict and communication analysts can compare predictions and rationalize Information impacts for future conflicts. About the author Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob teaches Communications & Media Studies at the American University of Nigeria. He earned his PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Author : Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 3110471906

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Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob Pdf

Author : Dave Dilegge
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984517197

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Hammer of the Caliphate by Dave Dilegge Pdf

Part of the Small Wars Journal (SWJ) Anthology, Hammer of the Caliphate is a continuation of previous works on the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and their affiliate groups. The anthology title is a play on words related to the fifteenth-century treatise Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches). Given the Islamic State’s predisposition for engaging in heinous acts and barbaric atrocities in the name of their apocalyptic god, one derived from a perverted version of what mainstream Islam is today, declaring IS anathema to our modern world seems only fitting. The work represents the fifth volume in the SWJ series of radical Islamist-focused anthologies.

Author : Colin Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000389074

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The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy by Colin Alexander Pdf

This edited volume provides one of the most formidable critical inquiries into public diplomacy’s relationship with hegemony, morality and power. Wherein, the examination of public diplomacy’s ‘frontiers’ will aid scholars and students alike in their acquiring of greater critical understanding around the values and intentions that are at the crux of this area of statecraft. For the contributing authors to this edited volume, public diplomacy is not just a political communications term, it is also a moral term within which actors attempt to convey a sense of their own virtuosity and ‘goodness’ to international audiences. The book thereby provides fascinating insight into public diplomacy from the under-researched angle of moral philosophy and ethics, arguing that public diplomacy is one of the primary vehicles through which international actors engage in moral rhetoric to meet their power goals. The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy is a landmark book for scholars, students and practitioners of the subject. At a practical level, it provides a series of interesting case studies of public diplomacy in peripheral settings. However, at a conceptual level, it challenges the reader to consider more fully the assumptions that they may make about public diplomacy and its role within the international system.

Author : Oksamytna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192857507

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Advocacy and Change in International Organizations by Oksamytna Pdf

How do international organizations change? Many organizations expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations argues that they do so not only at the collective direction of member states. Advocacy is a crucial but overlooked source of change in international organizations. Different actors can advocate for change: national diplomats, international bureaucrats, external experts, or civil society activists. They can use one of three advocacy strategies: social pressure, persuasion, and 'authority talk'. The success of each strategy depends on the presence of favourable conditions related to characteristics of advocates, targets, issues, and context. Institutionalization of new issues in international organizations as a multi-stage process, often accompanied by contestation. This book demonstrates how the advocacy-focused framework explains the origins of three workstreams of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations: communication, protection, and reconstruction. The issue of strategic communications was promoted by UN officials through the strategy of persuasion. Protection of civilians emerged due to a partially successful social influence campaign by a coalition of elected Security Council members and a subsequent (and successful) persuasion efforts by Canada. Quick impact projects entered peacekeepers' practice as the result of 'authority talk' by an expert panel. The three issues illustrate the diversity of pathways to change in international organizations, representing the top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in pathways. Moreover, they have achieved different degrees of institutionalization in UN's policies, structures, and frameworks: protection of civilians is the most institutionalized, as evidenced by measures to hold peacekeepers accountable for non-implementation, while quick impact projects are the least institutionalized.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Glen Segell
Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 9781901414264

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Disarming Iraq by Glen Segell Pdf

Author : Ernie Regehr
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781783603572

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Disarming Conflict by Ernie Regehr Pdf

In the past quarter century our world has hosted ninety-nine wars, twenty-nine of these are ongoing. The bill for maintaining huge stores of weapons and some 70 million people in uniform currently stands at $1.7 trillion a year. Of these wars, over 85 percent are not settled on the battlefield; they are fought to desperately hurting stalemates, eventually being turned over to diplomats and politicians who go in search of whatever face-saving outcomes may still be available. And yet, abandoning the conference table in favour of the battlefield is still justified when viewed as a last resort. In this brave and discerning book, Ernie Regehr, OC, explains the approaches and initiatives needed to steer away from the futility of global military effort. Combining four decades of experience in conflict zones, advising and leading diplomacy efforts, building NGOs and contributing to the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect Act by the World Assembly, Regehr boldly shows that political stability will never be issued from the barrel of a gun.

Author : C. Sriram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230582163

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Peace as Governance by C. Sriram Pdf

A critical study of incentives commonly used to induce non-state armed groups to engage in peace negotiations. Offers a closer analysis of these incentives, which offer such groups a place or a stake in governance, suggesting that not only are they frequently ineffective, but that they can have unintended and dangerous side effects.

Author : Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134583287

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The Balkans by Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries Pdf

An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova. With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural explanations and concentrates on the pervasive influence of strongly entrenched vertical power-structures and power-relations. Focusing on political and economic continuities and changes since the 1980s, The Balkans includes brief overviews of the history of each state prior to the 1980s to provide the background to enable all students of Eastern European history to make sense of the more recent developments.

Author : Seema Shekhawat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498554381

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Gender, Conflict, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325 by Seema Shekhawat Pdf

This book examines the position of women in formal peace making in the context of UNSC Resolution 1325. It asks if the resolution, passed seventeen years ago, has been consigned to the domain of rhetoric, or whether it still has practical significance.

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074244966

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South Africa's Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Africa by Roger Southall Pdf

This collection is a product of a research workshop conducted on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Foundation by the Democracy & Governance (D & G) Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Africa Institute of South Africa, which was held in December 2004.

Author : Mats Berdal,Jake Sherman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000846928

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The Political Economy of Civil War and UN Peace Operations by Mats Berdal,Jake Sherman Pdf

This book examines the operational and political challenges facing UN peace operations deployed in countries where civil war and protracted violence have given rise to the complex and distinctive political economies of conflict. The volume explores the nature and impact of such political economies – informal systems of power and influence formed by the interaction of local, national, and region-wide war economies with the political agendas of conflict actors – on the course of UN peace operations. It focuses in detail on the UN’s long-running peace operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Somalia. The book is centrally concerned with the interaction of UN missions with the power structures and local conflict dynamics that shape individual mission settings, and the challenges these pose for mediation, protection of civilians, and other tasks. It also offers a critical assessment of the various ways in which the UN ‘system’, from its headquarters in New York to the field, has confronted the policy challenges posed by political economies of conflict-affected states, societies, and regions. It advances a pragmatic set of policy recommendations aimed at improving the UN’s ability to confront predatory and exploitative war economies. At the same time, the volume makes it clear that political and institutional obstacles to more effective UN action are certain to remain profound and are unlikely ever to be fully overcome let alone eradicated. Despite making some progress since the 1990s to better understand the political economy of civil wars, the UN has struggled with how to tackle informal networks of power and their consequences for efforts to end wars. The book will be of special interest to students of war and conflict studies, statebuilding, political economy of conflict, UN interventionism and peacebuilding, and IR/Security in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UVA:X006015069

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West Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daily Graphic by Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh Pdf