Designing Peace

Author : Neophytos Loizides
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812292176

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Designing Peace by Neophytos Loizides Pdf

Why do some societies choose to adopt federal settlements in the face of acute ethnic conflict, while others do not? Neophytos Loizides examines how acrimoniously divided Cyprus could re-unify by adopting a federal and consociational arrangement inspiring similar attempts in its region. Loizides asserts that institutional innovation is key in designing peace processes. Analyzing power-sharing in Northern Ireland, the return of displaced persons in Bosnia, and the preparatory mandate referendum in South Africa, he shows how divided societies have implemented novel solutions despite conditions that initially seemed prohibitive. Turning to Cyprus, he chronicles the breakthrough that led to the exhumations of the missing after 2003, and observes that a society's choice of narratives and institutions can overcome structural constraints. While Loizides points to the relative absence of successful federal and consociational arrangements among societies evolving from the "post-Ottoman space," he argues that neither elites nor broader societies in the region must be held hostages to the past. To effect lasting and positive change, Loizides encourages stakeholders in divided societies to be prepared to identify, redesign, and implement innovative new institutions. Examining successful peace mediations and identifying the shared experience and commonalities between Cyprus and other divided societies promises not only to inform the tackling of the Cyprus problem but also to provide transferable knowledge with broader implications for the fields of peace studies and conflict resolution.

Author : Cynthia Smith
Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942303327

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Designing Peace by Cynthia Smith Pdf

Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. Through fully illustrated essays, interviews, critical maps, and over forty design projects spanning the globe this book examines the numerous ways designers engage with individuals, communities, and organizations to create a more sustainable peace-from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures, to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace.

Author : Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555876013

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Resolving International Conflicts by Jacob Bercovitch Pdf

Mediation is one of the most important methods of settling conflicts in the post-Cold War world. This text represents the most recent trends in the process and practice of international mediation.

Author : George A. Dudley
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032434014

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A Workshop for Peace by George A. Dudley Pdf

In this book he unfolds the first eyewitness account of the creation of a landmark building that was functionally and symbolically important in its time, marking the emergence of modern architecture as the dominant language of postwar institutions and cities.

Author : Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera,Lamina Kamiludeen Omotoyosi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794751521

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EDUCATION FOR WORLD PEACE Issues, Challenges and New Directions by Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera,Lamina Kamiludeen Omotoyosi Pdf

Author : Patrick MacLeamy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119685302

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Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm by Patrick MacLeamy Pdf

Offers architects and creative services professionals exclusive insights and strategies for success from the former CEO of HOK. Designing a World Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories and Strategies Behind HOK tells the history of one of the largest design firms in the world and draws lessons from it that can help other architects, interior designers, urban planners and creative services professionals grow bigger or better. Former HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy shares the revolutionary strategies HOK’s founders deployed to create a brand-new type of architecture firm. He pulls no punches, revealing the triple crisis that almost bankrupted HOK and describes how any firm can survive and thrive. Designing a World Class Architecture Firm tells the inside story of many of HOK’s most iconic buildings, including the National Air and Space Museum, Moscone Convention Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Houston Galleria and the reimagined LaGuardia Airport. Each chapter conveys lessons learned from HOK’s successes —and failures— including: The importance of diversifying to depression-and-recession-proof your firm The benefit of organizing your firm around specialized leaders and project types The difference between leading and managing your people The value of simple financial metrics to ensure your firm’s health and profitability The “run toward trouble” strategy which prevents problems from ballooning MacLeamy delivers his advice via inspirational stories such as how HOK survived when its home office in St. Louis went up in flames and humorous stories, like the time an HOK executive was mistaken for royalty on a trip to Saudi Arabia. In this tell-all guide, the driven architecture or design professional will find the tools needed to evolve or grow any firm.

Author : Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350184091

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Teaching for Peace and Social Justice in Myanmar by Mary Shepard Wong Pdf

Bringing together scholars and educators based in Myanmar, the USA, the UK, Denmark, and Thailand, this book presents new perspectives and research on the struggle for social justice and peace in Myanmar at this critical juncture. It shows how actors from diverse backgrounds and regions of Myanmar are drawing from their identities, evoking their agency, and using critical pedagogy to advance social justice and peace. The chapters provide the compelling life stories of the authors, specific examples of what they are doing, and insights of how their work might be applied to other contexts. The topics discussed include addressing structural violence, peace curriculum development, identity-based conflict, teaching the history of the country, promoting inclusion, civic education, critical pedagogy, teacher agency, and agendas of research funding for peacebuilding. The foreword and afterword, written by well-known scholars of Myanmar, address the relevance and importance of the book vis-a-vis the current social and political crisis following the February 2021 military coup.

Author : O. Richmond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230289048

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Maintaining Order, Making Peace by O. Richmond Pdf

This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks via an empirical and theoretical analysis, what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.

Author : Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509923441

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Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies by Nasia Hadjigeorgiou Pdf

This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of past violence to articulate their grievance, and by encouraging the state to respond to and provide them with a meaningful remedy. This usually happens either through a process of adjudication, whereby human rights can offer guidance to the judiciary as to the best way to address such grievances, or through the passing and implementation of human rights laws and policies that seek to promote peace. However, this positive relationship between human rights and peace is both qualified and context specific. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of four case studies, the book identifies the conditions that can support the effective use of human rights as peacebuilding tools. Developing these, the book recommends a series of strategies that peacebuilders should adopt and rely on.

Author : Peter M. Sensenig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498231022

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Peace Clan by Peter M. Sensenig Pdf

What happens when North American Mennonite Christians arrive in Islamic Somalia? The answer, according to Peter Sensenig, is that something new emerges: a peace clan. From the first schools and medical work in the 1950s up to the educational partnerships of the present day, Somalis and Mennonites formed a surprising friendship that defied conventional labels. Peace Clan is the story of two deeply traditional communities as they encounter change. How can Somalis apply the profound peacemaking resources of their culture and faith in a society fragmented by violence? And how can modernizing Mennonites make sense of their peace convictions in the context of civil war and military intervention? In struggling with these questions over the course of six decades, Somalis and Mennonites held a mirror up to one another. The author shows how the common quest to transform enmity brings out the best in both communities, and suggests what a fruitful partnership might look like in the present challenges. Students, academics, and lay readers alike will find on these pages a compelling invitation to join the peace clan.

Author : Markus Schultze-Kraft
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9783030936549

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Education for Sustaining Peace Through Historical Memory by Markus Schultze-Kraft Pdf

Informed by the author's long-standing work on violent conflict, peace and education in countries of the Global South, particularly Colombia, this open access book presents a comprehensive narrative about the relationship between peace education, historical memory and the sustaining peace agenda, advocating for the adoption of a new perspective on education for sustaining peace through historical memory. Education on and for peace in countries wrestling with, or emerging from, protracted violent conflict is up against major challenges, and both conventional and critical approaches to peace education are limited to address these. Incorporating a focus on historical memory, without losing sight of its own pitfalls, into peace education can support learners and teachers to come to grips with achieving positive, peace-sustaining change at both the micro (individual) and macro (social and institutional) levels, and to develop concepts and practices of effective and legitimate alternatives to violence and war. Conceived in these terms, historical memory-oriented peace education also stands to enhance the work-in-progress that is the UN-led sustaining peace agenda, including its Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : B. Maphosa,Alphonse Keasley
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798305297

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Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies by B. Maphosa,Alphonse Keasley Pdf

Though conflicts among (African) nations diminished at the end of the last millennium, the need for peace remains a perennial concern for African citizens within their communities and countries. Once again, Maphosa and Keasley have engaged a collection of scholar practitioners to address the query ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference in Contemporary Peace Education around Africa?’ The contributing authors draw from daily headlines as well as African literature to unearth twenty-first century quandaries with which educators in formal and informal contexts are called upon to grapple. The ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference’ authors offer insights to educators, peace education practitioners and parents for everyday living. The authors probe the wisdom of the recent and ancient past and bring forth pearls for contemporary moments. All in discerning effort to respond to the guiding question, the editors and their contributing colleagues deliver a compelling set of revelations for Making a Difference in Peace Education for African and world citizens.

Author : Charles H. Anderton,John R. Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107184206

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Principles of Conflict Economics by Charles H. Anderton,John R. Carter Pdf

Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.

Author : Debra Cox
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664262379

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Strengthen! by Debra Cox Pdf

Though you may believe in God, difficulties often arise that lead you off the path he intends for you to follow. In Strengthen!, author Debra Cox offers a devotional that inspires you to continue to strive and stay in the race. Cox understands that all Christians may need to be reminded of the acts of God and the promises he provides in his biblical instructional book. By examining everyday challenges and life experiences, Strengthen! assures you that God can do the impossible, and he is present in what seems to be the mundane and crazy situations you endure. God promises never to leave you or forsake you, regardless of the situation you face. The lessons delivered in this devotional help you to be encouraged, strengthened, and blessed. Believe God can do the “it” you need to walk successfully through your life’s journey.

Author : Neophytos Loizides
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812247756

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Designing Peace by Neophytos Loizides Pdf

Designing Peace examines how institutional innovation impacts peace building in divided societies. Drawing on examples from Bosnia, South Africa, and Northern Ireland, the book demonstrates how institutional lessons from elsewhere could be applied to future negotiations in Cyprus and its broader region.