Author : Tobias Debiel
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781842771716
Several regions of the world are characterized by persistent internal conflict and deeply rooted structures of violence. This work explores why domestic and international efforts to re-establish order, human security, democratic processes, and a developing economy are proving difficult to achieve.
Author : Teresa Crane
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1788633636
One family will do whatever it takes to save all that they hold dear—a World War II saga of survival and hope from “a writer of great skill and vitality” (Sarah Harrison, international bestselling author). Summer 1936: A sunny day in Kent, a perfect afternoon for a garden party, and everything seems right in the tranquil and ordered world of the Jordan family. But before the day is out that peace is shattered due to a war being fought in a country not their own. Summer 1940: London is at war, and for the first time in the history of combat a civilian population is under attack from the air. As a consequence—also for the first time—a generation of young men is called upon to face the enemy not from within an organized force on land or on sea but in individual and lethal combat in the skies above the green, fertile and until now peaceful fields of southern England . . .
Author : Elizabeth M. Cousens
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555879464
Examines successes and failures of large-scale interventions to build peace in El Salvador, Cambodia, Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sheds lights on the unique conditions for and constraints on peacebuilding in each country and examines the quality and coherence of international responses. Cousens is director of research at the International Peace Academy. Kumar is affiliated with the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9781626377769
"Introduces an innovative, practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies and fragile states?"--
Author : United Nations;World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1464811865
Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.
Author : Dr. Borko B. Djordjevic, M.D., Ph.D., F.I.C.S.
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1662932642
Dr. Borko B Djordjevic, M.D., Ph.D., born in Belgrade, has made a notable career as a plastic surgeon in the USA, and he continues to work actively in Serbia and Montenegro. His autobiography is very interesting, exciting, and shows the dilemmas, decisions, and adaptations of a young man to life in an entirely new environment. His book points to the many possibilities for achieving optimal results in plastic surgery and life. This book will provide insights into the lesser-known details about the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the interests of big capital, and that of powerful people. This autobiographical read takes the reader to the core of American career creation. It is enriched with a large number of photographs documenting the author's association with some of the most powerful people in the world. Thanks to his exceptional work and communication skills, Dr. Djordjevic had direct meetings with as many as five U.S. Presidents, even mediating the arrival of Jimmy Carter to Bosnia in order to establish peace in 1994.
Author : Norman Mlambo
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1909112909
The African continent has experienced too many violent conflicts leading to much loss of life, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of productive socio-economic activity, displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and the diversion of scarce resources towards arms procurement. It is clear to all that for sustainable development of the African continent, it is important that policy makers and all levels of society understand Africa's security challenges so that all may work towards sustainable peace and security for the African continent. This book is a collection of papers, most of them written for the journal African Renaissance, by prominent African scholars and practitioners who seek to understand the various causes of African conflicts, the many forms and different dimensions that these conflicts have taken, their devastating effects and the challenges for sustainable peace and security on the African continent. The book is proudly blessed by the inclusion (with permission) of the report of the outgoing United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan entitled "e;The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa"e;. The book is aimed at policy makers, academics, students, and for all who are interested in peace, security and sustainable development on the African continent.
Author : John D. Brewer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745659233
Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can identify those factors that help to stabilize them. The book draws a distinction between the political and social dimensions of peace processes, arguing that each is dependent on the other. Consideration of the social peace process, neglected in conventional treatments of the subject, is made central to this volume. While complementing current approaches that emphasize institutional reform in politics, law and economics, it pays due attention to sociological factors such as gender, civil society, religion, the deconstruction of violent masculinities, restorative justice, emotions, hope, forgiveness, truth recovery, social memory and public victimhood. These important themes are fully illustrated with examples and in-depth case studies from across the globe. The book locates itself within the growing debate about the positive impact of global civil society on peace and identifies the new forms of peace work engendered by globalization. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of peace studies in politics, international relations and sociology departments.
Author : Marc Trachtenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691002736
People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the great puzzle of the Cold War, and in this book, the product of nearly twenty years of work, Trachtenberg tries to solve it. The answer, he says, has to do with the German question, especially with the German nuclear question. These issues lay at the heart of the Cold War, and a relatively stable peace took shape only when they were resolved. The book develops this argument by telling a story--a complex story involving many issues of detail, but focusing always on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period. A Constructed Peace will be of interest not just to students of the Cold War, but to people concerned with the problem of war and peace, and in particular with the question of how a stable international order can be constructed, even in our own day.
Author : Lothar Brock
Publisher : Polity
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745649416
"... Explores the connections between fragile statehood and violent conflict, and analyses the limitations of outside intervention from international society."--P. 4 of cover.
