The Quest For Viable Peace

Author : Jock Covey,Michael J. Dziedzic,Leonard R. Hawley
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1929223676

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The Quest for Viable Peace by Jock Covey,Michael J. Dziedzic,Leonard R. Hawley Pdf

International intervention in failing states that threaten peace and security does not by itself make the world safer. Too often, when intervening forces are unable to change the circumstances that breed violence, the intervention stalls and old animosities reignite. If international intervention is to be effective, its first task must be the attainment of viable peace.As the editors of this groundbreaking volume explain, viable peace is achieved when the capacity of domestic institutions to resolve disputes peacefully overtakes the powerful motives and means for continued violent conflict. Getting to this point quickly demands the careful design and coordinated implementation of four mutually reinforcing strategies to moderate political conflict, defeat militant extremism, inculcate the rule of law, and establish a political economy that reduces rather than ignites conflict.Drawing on their firsthand experience of Kosovo, the contributors all seasoned practitioners and policymakers identify the concrete challenges that must be confronted and lay out the practical steps that must be taken to transform a society habituated to violent conflict into one where peace can eventually be self-sustaining.Conceptually innovative yet profoundly pragmatic, this book will change the way that international intervention is conceived and conducted.Read the review on Foreign Affairs."

Author : Ohannes Geukjian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317089476

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Negotiating Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace by Ohannes Geukjian Pdf

Conflict resolution, conflict management and conflict transformations are major themes in this unique book which examines, explores and analyses the mediation attempts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ohannes Geukjian shows the most striking characteristic of a protracted internal conflict such as this is its asymmetry and explains that, without meeting basic human needs like identity, recognition, security and participation, resolving any protracted social conflict is very difficult. The Armenian Azerbaijani case demonstrates how official diplomacy may not be able to solve protracted internal conflicts as, without addressing the real causes of the problematic relationship, attempts at peace making will always be sporadic and the space for mutual understanding and compromise shrink. Geukjian shows that conflict transformation has a particular salience in asymmetric conflicts such as this where the goal is to transform unjust relationships and where a high degree of polarisation between the disputants has taken root. Using the Nagorno-Karabakh case, this book focuses on the anatomy and causes of deadlock in negotiations and highlights the many difficulties in achieving a breakthrough.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International relations
ISBN : MINN:31951D02703588N

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Peace Watch by Anonim Pdf

Author : William J. Durch
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1929223919

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Twenty-first-century Peace Operations by William J. Durch Pdf

This superbly edited volume addresses the question of what has been accomplished and what lessons have been learned from ten years of peace operations in post-conflict societies.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474402187

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Post-Liberal Peace Transitions by Oliver P. Richmond Pdf

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be 'failed by design'? This study explores the interplay of local peace agency with the (neo)liberal peacebuilding project. And it looks at how far can local 'peace formation' dynamics can go to counteract the forces of violence and play a role in rebuilding the state, consolidate peace processes and induce a more progressive form of politics. By looking at local agency related to peace formation, Oliver Richmond and Sandra Pogodda find answers to the pressing question of how large-scale peacebuilding or statebuilding may be significantly improved and made more representative of the lives, needs, rights, and ambitions of its subjects.

Author : Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971645

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Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building by Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio Pdf

As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the lens of international law, which provides a framework through which the authors contextualize and examine the many facets of state building in relation to the legal norms, processes, and procedures that guide such efforts across the globe. The volume aims to provide not only an introduction to and explanation of prominent topics in state building, but also a perceptive analysis that augments ongoing conversations among researchers, lawyers, and advocates engaged in the field.

Author : Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317382751

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Peace Figuration after International Intervention by Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies. It introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a new analytical framework for studying the intentionality, performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work challenges current theories and views and searches for alternative non-conflicted research avenues that are suitable for understanding how peacebuilding intentions are made, how different events shape peace outcomes, and what are the consequences of peacebuilding interventions. Drawing on detailed case studies of peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Timor-Leste, the book argues that attempts to build peace often fail to achieve the intended outcomes. A figurational view of peacebuilding interventions shows that post-conflict societies experience multiple episodes of success and failure in an unpredictable trajectory. This book develops a relational sociology of peacebuilding impact, which is crucial for overcoming static measurement of peacebuilding successes or failures. It shows that international interventions can shape peace but, importantly, not always in the shape they intended. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Author : Gëzim Visoka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319510019

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Shaping Peace in Kosovo by Gëzim Visoka Pdf

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces the effectiveness of fluid forms of interventionism. It also explores the co-optation of peace by ethno-nationalist groups and explores how their contradictory perception of peace produced an ungovernable peace, which has been manifested with intractable ethnic antagonisms, state capture, and ignorance of the root causes, drivers, and consequences of the conflict. Under these conditions, prospects for emancipatory peace have not come from external actors, ethno-nationalist elite, and critical resistance movements, but from local and everyday acts of peace formation and agnostic forms for reconciliation. The book proposes an emancipatory agenda for peace in Kosovo embedded on post-ethnic politics and joint commitments to peace, a comprehensive agenda for reconciliation, people-centred security, and peace-enabling external assistance.

Author : Timothy D Sisk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134022373

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International Mediation in Civil Wars by Timothy D Sisk Pdf

This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace. As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in the post-Cold War era, the question of how these wars end has become an urgent research and policy question. This volume explores a critical aspect of peacemaking that has yet to be sufficiently evaluated: the turbulent period beyond the onset of formal or open negotiations to end civil wars and the clinching of an initially sustainable negotiated settlement. The book argues that the transnational flow of weapons, resources, and ideas means that when civil wars today end, they are more likely to do so at the negotiating table than on the battlefield. It uses bargaining theory to develop an analytical framework to evaluate peace processes – moving from stalemate in wars to negotiated settlement – and it rigorously analyses the experiences of five cases of negotiated transitions from war and the role of international mediators: South Africa, Liberia, Burundi, Kashmir, and Sri Lanka.

Author : Tuba Turan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004305618

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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 : Andrew G. Reiter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319401027

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Fighting Over Peace by Andrew G. Reiter Pdf

This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agreements subsequently unravel, ushering in renewed conflict. In response, important international actors have become increasingly involved in conflict mediation, peacekeeping, and post-conflict reconstruction around the globe. Policymakers and scholars alike have identified spoilers—violent actors who often rise up and attempt to challenge or derail the peace process—as one of the greatest threats to peace. Using a mixed-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of a newly created, global dataset of spoiling, Reiter demonstrates that this type of violence occurs in predictable circumstances and only represents a threat to peace under specific conditions. The book also shows that spoiling often serves to bring agreement flaws and implementation failures to light and in turn forces actors to recommit to an accord, thereby strengthening peace in the long term.

Author : Alexander Kott,Gary Citrenbaum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781441962355

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Estimating Impact by Alexander Kott,Gary Citrenbaum Pdf

Sociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on personal stressors; theories of social learning blame crime on its social rewards, and see crime more as an institution in conflict with other institutions rather than as in- vidual deviance; and theories of control look at crime as natural and rewarding, and explore the formation of institutions that control crime. Theorists of corruption generally agree that corruption is an expression of the Patron–Client relationship in which a person with access to resources trades resources with kin and members of the community in exchange for loyalty. Some approaches to modeling crime and corruption do not involve an explicit simulation: rule based systems; Bayesian networks; game theoretic approaches, often based on rational choice theory; and Neoclassical Econometrics, a rational choice-based approach. Simulation-based approaches take into account greater complexities of interacting parts of social phenomena. These include fuzzy cognitive maps and fuzzy rule sets that may incorporate feedback; and agent-based simulation, which can go a step farther by computing new social structures not previously identified in theory. The latter include cognitive agent models, in which agents learn how to perceive their en- ronment and act upon the perceptions of their individual experiences; and reactive agent simulation, which, while less capable than cognitive-agent simulation, is adequate for testing a policy’s effects with existing societal structures. For example, NNL is a cognitive agent model based on the REPAST Simphony toolkit.

Author : Dennis J. Deeb, II
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761861003

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Israel, Palestine, & the Quest for Middle East Peace by Dennis J. Deeb, II Pdf

This book objectively aims to provide both a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a historiography exploring the failures to achieve a final settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. It explores the issues of contention that must be resolved to reach a lasting settlement.

Author : Susanna Campbell,David Chandler,Meera Sabaratnam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780320045

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A Liberal Peace? by Susanna Campbell,David Chandler,Meera Sabaratnam Pdf

Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this timely and much-needed critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate. In doing so, it examines the validity of this critique in contemporary peacebuilding and statebuilding practice through a multitude of case studies - from Afghanistan to Somalia, Sri Lanka to Kosovo. Going further, it investigates the underlying theoretical assumptions of liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding, as well as providing new theoretical propositions for understanding current interventions. Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, alongside several new scholars making cutting edge contributions, this is an essential contribution to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area of study.

Author : Frederick D. Barton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538113011

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Peace Works by Frederick D. Barton Pdf

American military interventions have cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, yet we rarely manage to enact positive and sustainable change. In Peace Works, ambassador and global conflict leader Rick Barton uses a mix of stories, history, and analysis for a transformative approach to foreign affairs and offers concrete and attainable solutions for the future.