Author : William B. Quandt
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520225152
One message of Peace Process is that the United States has had, and will continue to have, a crucial role in helping Israel and her Arab neighbors reach peace. If American presidents play their role with skill, they can make a lasting contribution. But just as likely, they may misread the realities of the Middle East and add to the impasse by their own errors.
Author : H. Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1999-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312299397
Many of the deep-rooted human conflicts that seize our attention today are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation. People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides a space where citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Governments can negotiate binding agreements and enforce and implement them, but only citizens can change human relationships. Governments have long had their tools of diplomacy - mediation, negotiation, force, and allocation of resources. Harold H. Saunders' A Public Peace Process provides citizens outside government with their own instrument for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations.
Author : Markus E. Bouillon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN :
Author : Jason Miklian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429614667
The intersection of business, peace and sustainable development is becoming an increasingly powerful space, and is already beginning to show the capability to drive major global change. This book deciphers how different forms of corporate engagement in the pursuit of peace and development have different impacts and outcomes. It looks specifically at how the private sector can better deliver peace contributions in fragile, violent and conflict settings and then at the deeper consequences of this agenda upon businesses, governments, international institutions and not least the local communities that are presumed to be the beneficiaries of such actions. It is the first book to compile the state-of-the-field in one place and is therefore an essential guide for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the role of business in peace. Without cross-disciplinary engagement, it is hard to identify where the cutting edge truly lies, and how to take the topic forward in a more systematic manner. This edited book brings together thought leaders in the field and pulls disparate strands together from business ethics, management, international relations, peace and conflict studies in order to better understand how businesses can contribute to peacebuilding and sustainable development. Before businesses take a deeper role in the most complicated and risky elements of sustainable development, we need to be able to better explain what works, why it works, and what effective business efforts for peace and development mean for the multilateral institutional frameworks. This book does just that.
Author : Markus E. Bouillon
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN :
Author : C. Irwin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2002-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 140391432X
Many important lessons have come out of the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement. This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Significantly, it was the politicians who decided the questions so that they could map out areas of compromise and common ground that their supporters would accept. This book explains how the work was done so that others can apply the benefits of this experience to their own peace building activities.
Author : Ulrike Joras
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839406900
The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining conflicts, companies are also assumed to be self-interested as well as able to support the prevention, settlement and transformation of violent conflicts. This book explores the role of the private business sector during the civil war and the peace process in Guatemala. It examines and analyses the corporate positions during this period, aiming to add to a better understanding on the potentials and limits of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309171733
The end of the Cold War has changed the shape of organized violence in the world and the ways in which governments and others try to set its limits. Even the concept of international conflict is broadening to include ethnic conflicts and other kinds of violence within national borders that may affect international peace and security. What is not yet clear is whether or how these changes alter the way actors on the world scene should deal with conflict: Do the old methods still work? Are there new tools that could work better? How do old and new methods relate to each other? International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War critically examines evidence on the effectiveness of a dozen approaches to managing or resolving conflict in the world to develop insights for conflict resolution practitioners. It considers recent applications of familiar conflict management strategies, such as the use of threats of force, economic sanctions, and negotiation. It presents the first systematic assessments of the usefulness of some less familiar approaches to conflict resolution, including truth commissions, "engineered" electoral systems, autonomy arrangements, and regional organizations. It also opens up analysis of emerging issues, such as the dilemmas facing humanitarian organizations in complex emergencies. This book offers numerous practical insights and raises key questions for research on conflict resolution in a transforming world system.
Author : Angelika Rettberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :
This chapter outlines the various ways in which business has been part of peacebuilding processes in conflict-affected societies in Latin America. With a focus on El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia, it shows that there is not a uniform model whereby private sector actors define their interests and strategies in relation to peace talks and peacebuilding processes. Rather, factors related to the nature and intensity of conflict, the economic and international context, company traits and private sector organizational forms, as well as access to the policymaking process play an important role. Whether peace is achieved or not ultimately depends on a variety of factors. However, as illustrated here, business can have an important impact on the holding of talks, on agreement substance, and on the speed and depth of implementation. This chapter is a draft version of a paper that will be published in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, edited by Gary Prevost and Harry Vanden.
Author : Harry E. Vanden
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 9780197565704
"This encyclopedia reviews and interprets a broad array of research on Latin American politics, including topics related to political institutions, processes, and parties; social movements; political economy; racial and gender politics; and Latin America's international relations. Under the editorial directorship of Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost and associate editors Jennifer Cyr, Kwame Dixon, Mary K. Meyer McAleese, Gabriel Ondetti, and Richard Stahler-Sholk, this publication brings together peer-reviewed contributions by leading researchers and offers the definitive resource for understanding contemporary politics in the region. As a result, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics is a necessary resource for students and as well as both new and established scholars"--
