Designing A Peacebuilding Infrastructure

Author : Tobi P. Dress
Publisher : UN
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435087131512

Get Book

Designing a Peacebuilding Infrastructure by Tobi P. Dress Pdf

NGLS's latest Dossier focuses on one of the most compelling issues to be addressed in this century--resolving deadly conflict. It explores what we are doing as a human community to address such conflict and what we should be doing as the decade progresses. It highlights the fact that on one hand, there is a vibrant community of agencies and organizations working in the field of peacebuilding, but on the other hand, there is no overarching structure, little cohesion and extensive fragmentation in the field. The Dossier also advances the idea that the UN can play a much greater role in peacebuilding than currently acknowledged. Designing a Peacebuilding Infrastructure focuses on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, exploring issues such as structural and institutional prevention; the linkages between and among conflict prevention, development, governance and human rights; the importance of regional mechanisms and early warning systems; and the macroeconomic aspects of conflict, including corruption and small arms transfers. It also highlights the extensive work that NGOs have been undertaking, and the broad scope of innovative civil society initiatives. The objectives of this Dossier are threefold. It offers an overview of the current state of conflict prevention; it aims to broaden the discourse about how conflict and its prevention are perceived and addressed; and it offers a series of recommendations. This Dossier is also meant to serve as a resource tool. Each chapter includes a number of selected resources and current literature, and an electronic version of this publication will be available on the NGLS website. Finally, it is hoped that this Dossier will contribute to informing the discourse on conflict prevention and help provide guidance as we embark together upon the next steps.

Author : Andrew Blum,Ruben Grangaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : 1601277121

Get Book

Collaborative Design in Peacebuilding by Andrew Blum,Ruben Grangaard Pdf

Despite clear evidence of the effectiveness of individual peacebuilding efforts, the field as a whole often struggles to have a meaningful collective impact on broader conflict dynamics. This report, drawing on a pilot initiative in the Central African Republic—IMPACT-CAR—to develop a shared measurement and reporting system aimed at improving collaboration and shared learning across peacebuilding implementers, reflects on the results, successes, and challenges of the initiative to offer a road map for future initiatives focused on collective impact in the peacebuilding field.

Author : Achim Wennmann,Oliver Jütersonke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351371346

Get Book

Urban Safety and Peacebuilding by Achim Wennmann,Oliver Jütersonke Pdf

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding. The book reflects the advances in urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk of conflict and insecurity in cities. Specifically, it draws on contributions to the Technical Working Group on the Confluence of Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice, an informal expert network co-facilitated by the United Nations Office at Geneva, UN-Habitat’s Safer Cities Programme, and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. A focus on ‘sustaining peace’ serves as a framework for situating new policy responses against conflict, violence, and exclusion in the city, and for promoting a conversation across disciplinary and specialist silos. The volume thereby broadens the optic of peacebuilding practice beyond interstate and intrastate armed conflicts – and especially their aftermath – and reconnects it to the community-level origins of building peace. The analysis and practice presented here will remind those willing to work towards peaceful and inclusive cities that there are tried and tested approaches available, and a host of experts and practitioners ready to accompany those prepared to lead in their respective contexts. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of peacebuilding, urban studies, security studies, and international relations.

Author : Mark Rogers,Aaron Chassy,Tom Bamat
Publisher : Catholic Relief Services
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781614920281

Get Book

Integrating Peacebuilding Into Humanitarian and Development Programming by Mark Rogers,Aaron Chassy,Tom Bamat Pdf

Efforts by international organizations to integrate or mainstream peacebuilding across the diverse spectrum of humanitarian and development work has tended to be opportunistic and ad hoc. This paper seeks to clarify key terms, explore organizational frameworks and initiatives, provide some practical guidance, and list references or links to both thematic and procedural sources.

Author : Craig Zelizer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429973291

Get Book

Integrated Peacebuilding by Craig Zelizer Pdf

Integrated Peacebuilding addresses the importance of weaving peacebuilding methods into diverse sectors including development, humanitarian assistance, gender, business, media, health, and the environment - areas where such work is needed the most. Incorporating peacebuilding approaches in these fields is critical for transforming today's protracted conflicts into tomorrow's sustainable peace. Covering both theory and practice, Dr. Zelizer and his team of leading academics and practitioners present original essays discussing the infrastructure of the peacebuilding field (outlining key actors, donors, and underlying motivations) as well as the ethical dilemmas created by modern conflict. Exploring both the challenges and lessons to be found in this emerging field, Integrated Peacebuilding is perfect for courses on peacebuilding, conflict resolution, international development, and related fields.

Author : Cedric de Coning,Rui Saraiva,Ako Muto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031182198

Get Book

Adaptive Peacebuilding by Cedric de Coning,Rui Saraiva,Ako Muto Pdf

This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.

Author : Tim Murithi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748630493

Get Book

Ethics of Peacebuilding by Tim Murithi Pdf

This book explores the ethical dimension of peacebuilding. In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order was rapidly dissolved by the internecine conflicts that plagued all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides demonstrated the challenge of promoting peace in a world increasingly defined by intra-state conflict and sub-national groups confronting nation-states. Murithi interrogates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding and presents a synthesis of moral philosophy and international relations and an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness and reconciliation. In its attempt to explore the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations which will enable students, scholars and practitioners to ground their understanding of a principled peacebuilding.

Author : Herbert Bangura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : 9198287508

Get Book

Inclusive Peacebuilding by Herbert Bangura Pdf

Author : Brandon Hamber,Elizabeth Gallagher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319099378

Get Book

Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding by Brandon Hamber,Elizabeth Gallagher Pdf

The book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding offers a template for those dealing with the aftermath of armed conflict to look at peacebuilding through a psychosocial lens. This Volume, and the case studies that are in it, starts from the premise that armed conflict and the political violence that flows from it, are deeply contextual and that in dealing with the impact of armed conflict, context matters. The book argues for a conceptual shift, in which psychosocial practices are not merely about treating individuals and groups with context and culturally sensitive methods and approaches: the contributors argue that such interventions and practices should in themselves shape social change. This is of critical importance because the psychosocial method continually highlights how the social context is one of the primary causes of individual psychological distress. The chapters in this book describe experiences within very different contexts, including Guatemala, Jerusalem, Indian Kashmir, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The common thread between the case studies is that they each show how psychosocial interventions and practices can influence the peacebuilding environment and foster wider social change. Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding is essential reading for social and peace psychologists, as well as for students and researchers in the field of conflict and peace studies, and for psychosocial practitioners and those working in post-conflict areas for NGO’s.

Author : Lydia Wanja Gitau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319498034

Get Book

Trauma-sensitivity and Peacebuilding by Lydia Wanja Gitau Pdf

This book identifies a gap in peacebuilding theory and practice in terms of sensitivity to trauma and its impact on the survivors of war and other mass violence. The research focuses on the traumatic experiences and perceptions of peace of South Sudanese refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northwestern Kenya. It further explores the possibilities for peacebuilding identified in these perceptions. A lack of sensitivity to the trauma experienced by the survivors of conflict and mass violence leads to interventions that are at best removed from, and at worst detrimental to the welfare of the survivors. Interventions that take into consideration the complex and multifaceted ways in which the survivors experience and respond to the traumatic events, encourage capacities for resilience in the survivors, engage the creative arts in peacebuilding, and emphasise the centrality of community and relationships, are seen to assist the survivors in recovery from trauma and to facilitate peacebuilding. • Diverse anecdotes and real life stories from the research participants.• The journey as a recurring motif throughout the book, weaved in a clear, easy to read style of writing.

Author : Abu Bakarr Bah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 135022183X

Get Book

Post-conflict Institutional Design by Abu Bakarr Bah Pdf

"Since gaining independence from colonial rule, most African countries have been struggling to build democratic and peaceful states. While African multiparty politics may be viewed as democratic system of governance, in reality it is plagued by ethnic and regional political grievances that undermine meaningful democracy. Even though ethnicity and regionalism are not the only reasons for political violence, as often pointed out in the greed-grievance literature, they are key instruments for mobilization and organizing political violence in the service of elite interest. By examining the post-conflict institutional reforms in several African countries, this book will not only shed light on the common causes of violent conflicts, but more importantly how institutional designs can affect the conditions for peace and democracy in Africa. As such, the book, focuses on conceptual and practical questions of designing ethnically and regionally inclusive state institutions and the way institutions are perceived by the citizenry. In particular, it addresses the issues of political autonomy and control over resources, which are often key sources of ethnic and regional grievances and demands for political autonomy. Moreover, it examined the symbolic and everyday meanings of institutional reforms and the overarching questions of institutional choices and ethnic and regional representation." --Amazon.com.

Author : Balázs Áron Kovács
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319895666

Get Book

Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins by Balázs Áron Kovács Pdf

This book offers a critical examination of ‘infrastructures for peace’, originally proposed as a framework of conflict transformation. Through an exploration of the statist ideological underpinnings of peace-building, it traces how the concept was transformed by institutional actors – international organisations and states – into a tool to further the state-building goals of liberal peace-building.

Author : H. Jeong
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026113659

Get Book

Approaches to Peacebuilding by H. Jeong Pdf

Ho-Won Jeong and a cast of experts explore the ways in which the dynamics of post-conflict situations can be transformed to sustainable peace. Contributors focus on designs and models of peacebuilding, functions of peacekeeping, capacity building through negotiations, reconciliation, the role of gender in social reconstruction, and policy coordination among different components of peacebuilding. The analysis illustrates past and current experiences of peacebuilding and suggests conceptual and policy approaches that can overcome the weaknesses of existing strategies.

Author : Tuba Turan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004305618

Get Book

Positive Peace in Theory and Practice by Tuba Turan Pdf

Positive Peace addresses how sustainable intra-state peace could best be elicited through the UN system in non-liberal/democratic divided societies. It offers a novel positive peace vision together with a comprehensive framework for positive peace that would strengthen the UN’s conflict prevention pillars and complement its post-conflict peacebuilding efforts.

Author : Arist von Hehn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004215894

Get Book

The Internal Implementation of Peace Agreements after Violent Intrastate Conflict by Arist von Hehn Pdf

This study provides guidance on how to best approach the management of an internally-led peace implementation process after violent intrastate conflict, gives an overview of tasks to be taken on, explains the legal framework provided for under international law, and addresses management implications. With a foreword by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate President Martti Ahtisaari.