Harnessing Post Conflict Transitions

Author : Nicholas J. Armstrong,Jacqueline Chura-Beaver
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584874645

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Harnessing Post-conflict Transitions by Nicholas J. Armstrong,Jacqueline Chura-Beaver Pdf

This monograph addresses the challenging topic of transition in post-conflict stability operations and is intended for a wide audience that includes military and civilian policymakers, international development experts, and scholars in academe. It is a primer, systematic review, and comprehensive assessment of the fields of research and practice. It presents and appraises the major lenses (process, authority transfer, phasing, and end state), categories (war-to-peace, power, societal, political-democratic, security, and economic), approaches, and tools under which post-conflict transitions are conceived. It lays the groundwork for both future research and greater collaboration among diverse international and local actors who operate in post-conflict environments, to develop a comprehensive definition of transition and adequate tools to address all facets of the concept. It provides recommendations for future research and improved transition policy, which include: cross-institutional (political, security, economic) and multi-level (local, regional, national) studies that explore the interdependencies between simultaneous transitions ; underlying assumptions of current transition tools and indicators ; relationships between transition and institutional resilience ; and, thresholds and tipping points between transition phases.

Author : Nicholas J. Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396881139

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HARNESSING POST-CONFLICT TRANSITIONS: A CONCEPTUAL PRIMER. by Nicholas J. Armstrong Pdf

Author : Ben Connable
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833068385

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Embracing the Fog of War by Ben Connable Pdf

The unpredictable counterinsurgency environment challenges centralized, quantitative campaign assessment. A comprehensive examination of the centralized, quantitative approach to assessment, as described in the literature and doctrine and applied in two primary case studies (Vietnam and Afghanistan), reveals weaknesses and gaps and proposes an alternative process: contextual assessment.

Author : Dave Fielder
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000145108142

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Defining Command, Leadership, and Management Success Factors Within Stability Operations by Dave Fielder Pdf

This monograph addresses the topic of Command-Leadership-Management (CLM) success attributes in Stability Operations and is intended to reach a wide audience of actors, including military and civilian deliverers of effect at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of operations. It was developed from a dissertation and updated while the author was deployed in Iraq at a time of transition from Combat Operations (Operation IRAQI FREEDOM) to fully declared Stability Operations (Operation NEW DAWN).

Author : Matthew Saul,James A. Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317669913

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International Law and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policy by Matthew Saul,James A. Sweeney Pdf

The trend for international engagement in post-conflict reconstruction has produced a host of best-practice postulates on topics such as local involvement in decision-making, accountability for past atrocities, sensitivity to context, and the construction of democratic institutions of governance. International law has potential relevance for many of these themes, yet the question of how the implementation of best-practice policy recommendations might be affected by international law remains under-examined. This book offers a fuller understanding of the role of international law in the practice of post-conflict reconstruction. It explores how international legal issues that arise in the post-conflict period relate to a number of strands of the policy debate, including government creation, constitution-making, gender policy, provision of security, justice for past atrocities, rule of law development, economic recovery, returning displaced persons, and responsibilities of international actors. The chapters of the book work to reveal the extent to which international law figures in the policy of internationally enabled post-conflict reconstruction across a range of sectors. They also highlight the scope for international law to be harnessed in a more effective manner from the perspective of the transition to peace and stability. The book lays out a basis for future policy making on post-conflict reconstruction; one that is informed about the international legal parameters, and more aware of how international law can be utilized to promote key objectives.

Author : Joanna Macrae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Humanitarian assistance
ISBN : 0850032660

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Dilemmas of 'Post'-Conflict Transition by Joanna Macrae Pdf

Author : Hans-Joachim Giessmann,Roger Mac Ginty,Beatrix Austin,Christine Seifert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783479054

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The Elgar Companion to Post-Conflict Transition by Hans-Joachim Giessmann,Roger Mac Ginty,Beatrix Austin,Christine Seifert Pdf

What are the main drivers of political transition and regime change? And to what extent do these apparently seismic political changes result in real change? These questions are the focus of this comparative study written by a mix of scholars and practitioners. This state-of-the-art volume identifies patterns in political transitions, but is largely unconvinced that these transitions bring about real change to the underlying structures of society. Patriarchy, land tenure, and economic systems often remain immune to change, despite the headlines.

Author : Annie Hardison-Moody
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625645890

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When Religion Matters by Annie Hardison-Moody Pdf

How does starting with women's statements that "God was there" in the moment of wartime violence shift the ways we think about religion, conflict, and healing? Religion and health scholar Annie Hardison-Moody examines this interdisciplinary question through several lenses--postconflict feminist theory, practical theology, and feminist and womanist theory and theology. Drawing on participatory fieldwork with a Liberian community in North Carolina, Hardison-Moody argues that religion matters for many survivors of violence, and that this fact must be taken into account in international conversations about women, violence, and healing. Consequently, she looks beyond the institutional forms of religion, instead studying the ways women live and profess healing and transformation as a part of their everyday lives. This, she argues, is the crucial task for postconflict transformation work. Understanding these "everyday" ways women experience and heal from violence is central to advancing our conceptions of healing and peace as they exist in a world rife with conflict. Scholars, activists, and caregivers will be able to draw on this resource as they attempt to understand and practice healing and transformation with those who have experienced violence and trauma.

Author : Jan Pospisil
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030043186

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Peace in Political Unsettlement by Jan Pospisil Pdf

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse. Its lofty ambitions have resulted in at best middling success, punctuated by moments of outright failure. The discrediting of the term ‘liberal peacebuilding’ has seen it evolve to respond to the numerous critiques. Notions such as ‘inclusive peace’ merge the liberal paradigm with critical notions of context, and the need to refine practices to take account of ‘the local’ or ‘complexity’. However, how this would translate into clear guidance for the practice of peacebuilding is unclear. Paradoxically, contemporary peacebuilding policy has reached an unprecedented level of vagueness. Peace in political unsettlement provides an alternative response rooted in a new discourse, which aims to speak both to the experience of working in peace process settings. It maps a new understanding of peace processes as institutionalising formalised political unsettlement and points out new ways of engaging with it. The book points to the ways in which peace processes institutionalise forms of disagreement, creating ongoing processes to manage it, rather than resolve it. It suggests a modest approach of providing ‘hooks’ to future processes, maximising the use of creative non-solutions, and practices of disrelation, are discussed as pathways for pragmatic post-war transitions. It is only by understanding the nature and techniques of formalised political unsettlement that new constructive ways of engaging with it can be found.

Author : Tazreena Sajjad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135982010

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Transitional Justice in South Asia by Tazreena Sajjad Pdf

Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the discussion of the "local" within religious and cultural parameters, thus engaging only with a "static local," as interpreted by certain local stakeholders. Based on data collected through interviews and participant observation carried out in the civil societies of the respective countries, this book brings attention to a "dynamic local," where societal norms evolve, and realities on the ground are shaped by shifting power dynamics, local hierarchies, and inequalities between actors. It suggests that the "local" must be understood as an inter-subjective concept, the meaning of which is not only an evolving and moving target, but also dependent on who is consulted to interpret it to external actors. This timely book engages with the divergent range of civil society voices and offers ways to move forward by including their concerns in the efforts to help impoverished war-torn societies transition from a state of war to the conditions of peace.

Author : Freya Higgins-Desbiolles,Lynda-Ann Blanchard,Yoko Urbain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000828030

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Peace Through Tourism by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles,Lynda-Ann Blanchard,Yoko Urbain Pdf

Peace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace. This edited volume considers the intersections between tourism, peace, justice and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works surveying practices, problems and challenges all around the globe. It presents a complex and critical approach, arguing that peace through tourism is dialogic and not as simple as describing a few “good” niche segments of tourism. The pedagogies of peace represented here work to analyse structural violence associated with tourism—such as in the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives over local or social economies; colonising, patriarchal and anthropocentric practices in tourism; and tourism’s complex role in post-conflict settings. Analyses found here place scholars, industry and communities in conversation about building shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differences are bridged through dialogues towards understanding. In light of the many challenges in attaining sustainable development in the 21st century, this volume is an important and timely endeavour. Radical practices are explored that support more ‘just’ tourism futures. With a new introduction, this book is an insightful resource for scholars and researchers of Tourism and Peace and Conflict Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Author : Ho-Won Jeong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538146453

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Transition to Peace by Ho-Won Jeong Pdf

This book enhances our understanding of how societies torn by violence can be rebuilt. Instabilities in those societies continue to be fuelled by political marginalization, economic-social inequality, violent crimes, and injustice. Historically, international response has been largely inadequate due to a failure of adaptation to local circumstances. This collection focuses on how peacebuilding programmes can be more effectively carried out to create a more functional society. In a nutshell, this volume sheds light on local practice and experiences that can be utilized to meet unique circumstances of countries that have suffered from a destructive conflict. The collection will investigate the transition to peace by highlighting the missing links between peacebuilding norms and practice, political economy, emotions, justice, and reconciliation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199251754

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Small Arms Survey 2003 by Anonim Pdf

This title includes information and analysis on global small arms production, stockpiles and legal and illicit transfers, and a review of international, regional and national measures to address the issue of small arms proliferation.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215544625

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DFID's performance in 2008-09 and the 2009 White Paper by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Pdf

DFID is right to focus more resources on fragile states if global poverty reduction goals are to be met. However, this report highlights a number of concerns about DFID's capacity to meet this and other new policy directions set out in the 2009 White Paper (Cm. 7656, ISBN 9780101765626), based on analysis of the Department's performance in 2008-09 (the Department's annual report 2008-09 published as HC 867-I,II, ISBN 9780102962154). Climate change, another key White Paper focus area, threatens progress on poverty reduction and will hit the poorest people first and hardest. The outcome of the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009 was disappointing and real progress needs to be made before the next conference at the end of this year. The White Paper also indicates that DFID will channel more funding through multilateral organisations including the EU, the UN and the World Bank. This offers the prospect of more coordinated delivery of aid, but only if these bodies increase their effectiveness and their poverty focus. The report also argues for speedier reform of the governance of the international financial institutions. The recession has had a significant impact on developing countries. It is estimated that an additional 90 million people will be affected by poverty as a combined result of the global food, financial and fuel crises over the last few years. Donors, including the UK, have responded and have sought to identify specific needs in developing countries, though many donors are failing to meet the aid commitments they have already made.

Author : Carsten Stahn,Jennifer S. Easterday,Jens Iverson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198784630

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Environmental Protection and Transitions from Conflict to Peace by Carsten Stahn,Jennifer S. Easterday,Jens Iverson Pdf

This book examines the protection of the environment in post-conflict societies, with regard both to the maintenance of natural ecosystems and to the function of environmental protection in the peace-building process, addressing the strengths and weaknesses of different bodies of law.