Current Events : Peace

When should the international community intervene to prevent suffering within sovereign states? This book argues that since Kosovo, the normative thesis has failed to influence international politics, as evidenced by events in Iraq and Darfur. This critique rejects realism and offers a new perspective on this important issue. more...

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This book looks at civil society and peace movements in the context of the identity-based. armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Focussing on the identity politics inherent in peace. work, it demonstrates why civil society groups engaged in peace activities often. fail to enhance the sense of security among civilians and are also unable to challenge. the underlying structures of war. The book highlights the role peace organisations. play in providing alternatives to dominant discourses of militarism. It draws. on unique empirical material, including 150 interviews with leaders, participants. and key actors involved in civil society peace work in Sri Lanka. By critically examining the roles played by civil society actors for peace,. The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War-torn Sri Lanka. contributes to filling the gap between the international enthusiasm for supporting. civil society peace work on the one hand, and the lack of a thorough understanding. of the relevance and impact of this work on the other. The author uses a constructivist. approach to point out the dangers of romanticising inter-ethnic understanding. in peace work and ignoring identity politics within peace movements. This book is a highly recommended reading for researchers, students and academics. involved in the study of Politics, International Relations, Peace and Conflict. Studies, and Sociology, as well as donor agencies, consultants, NGOs and peace. activists. more...

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This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola and Liberia, as successes and failures in these countries highlight incentives for the international community to keep peace processes from faltering. more...

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In case of security threats there is a need for temporal access to complete, updated, reliable information, in a dedicated form, is an essential prerequisite to effectively counter security threats. Currently the necessary information exists in a multitude of forms and formats geographically and physically scattered over different countries, institutes and organisations, and are subject to widely different data policies and management schemes. Moreover, there is no complete and updated overview of the existing information, e.g. in the form of a metadata catalogue. As a result, integration of this information in case of emergencies has proven to be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Although in some cases, interesting and impressive "demonstrations" have been shown of the possibilities of the integration of information, for a number of reasons these have reached the "operational" stage. more...

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This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.   more...

Price: $140.00