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The Myriad Challenges of Peace

Author : Bill Rawling

Publisher :

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 26,6 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN :

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This publication forms a narrative of how health care was organized, practised, and supported within Canada's fighting services from the first day of peace following World War II to the military operations of the end of the century. It focusses not only on what medical practitioners did, but on how they were recruited, trained, deployed, and supplied. Topics covered include operations in the Korean War & peacekeeping; medical research; personnel issues; infrastructure; logistics; treatment of casualties; field hospitals; search & rescue operations; and treating victims of natural disasters. Includes index.



Understanding Peacekeeping

Author : Paul D. Williams

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 496 pages

File Size : 33,90 MB

Release : 2020-12-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0745686753

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Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations. Drawing on a dataset of nearly two hundred historical and contemporary missions, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary international environment in which peace operations are deployed, the strategic purposes peace operations are intended to achieve, and the major challenges facing today’s peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and five new chapters have been added – on stabilization, organized crime, exit strategies, force generation, and the use of force. Part 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping, from 1945 through to 2020. Part 3 analyses the strategic purposes that United Nations and other peace operations are intended to achieve – namely, prevention, observation, assistance, enforcement, stabilization, and administration. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today’s peacekeepers: force generation, the regionalization and privatization of peace operations, the use of force, civilian protection, gender issues, policing and organized crime, and exit strategies.



Lawyering Peace

Author : Paul R. Williams

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 19,72 MB

Release : 2021-12-16

Category : Law

ISBN : 1108478239

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How do parties to peace negotiations actually build durable peace and what conundrums must they solve to achieve durable peace?



International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 640 pages

File Size : 30,96 MB

Release : 2000-11-07

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0309171733

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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.



Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation

Author : Emery Brusset

Publisher : Springer

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 40,52 MB

Release : 2016-07-28

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137601116

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This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream approaches – presenting both conceptual and empirical content. This volume offers a variety of original and insightful contributions to the debates grappling with the adoption of complexity thinking. Insights from Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation addresses the core dilemma that practitioners have to confront: how to function in situations that are fast changing and complex, when equipped with tools designed for neither? How do we reconcile the tension between the use of linear causal logic and the dynamic political transitions that interventions are meant to assist? Readers will be given a rare opportunity to superimpose the latest conceptual innovations with the latest case study applications and from a diverse spectrum of organisational vantage points. This provides the myriad practitioners and consultants in this space with invaluable insights as to how to improve their trade craft, while ensuring policy makers and the accompanying research/academic industry have clearer guidance and innovative thinking. This edited volume provides critically innovative offerings for the audiences that make up this broad area’s practitioners, researchers/academics/educators, and consultants, as well as policy makers.



Peace in the Age of Chaos

Author : Steve Killelea

Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing

Page : 343 pages

File Size : 45,16 MB

Release : 2020-10-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1743587155

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While COVID-19 is reshaping our lives, this must-read book for 2021 provides some of the answers to our most pressing global challenges. Unless the world is basically peaceful, we will never get the trust, cooperation and inclusiveness to solve these issues, yet what creates peace is poorly understood. Working on an aid program in one of the most violent places in the world, North East Kivu in the DR Congo, philanthropist and business leader Steve Killelea asked himself, ‘What are the most peaceful nations?’ Unable to find an answer, he created the world’s leading measure of peace, the Global Peace Index, which receives over 16 billion media impressions annually and has become the definitive go to index for heads of state. Steve Killelea then went on to establish world-renowned think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace. Today its work is used by organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and taught in thousands of university courses around the world. Peace in the Age of Chaos tells of Steve’s personal journey to measure and understand peace. It explores the practical application of his work, which is gathering momentum at a rapid pace. In this time when we are faced with environmental, social and economic challenges, this book shows us a way forward where Positive Peace, described as creating the optimal environment for human potential to flourish, can lead to a paradigm shift in the ways societies can be managed, making them more resilient and better capable of adapting to their changing environments.



Peaceland

Author : Séverine Autesserre

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 27,13 MB

Release : 2014-05-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107052106

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This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Individuals from all over the world and all walks of life share numerous practices, habits, and narratives when they serve as interveners in conflict zones. These common attitudes and actions enable foreign peacebuilders to function in the field, but they also result in unintended consequences that thwart international efforts. Certain expatriates follow alternative modes of thinking and acting, often with notable results, but they remain in the minority. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners' everyday life and work, this book proposes innovative ways to better help host populations build a sustainable peace.



State Magazine

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Page : 50 pages

File Size : 22,17 MB

Release : 2015-06

Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American

ISBN :

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Bending the Arc

Author : Steve Breyman

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 31,27 MB

Release : 2020-08-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1438478763

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Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region's premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Medea Benjamin, Blase Bonpane, Kathy Kelly, Bill Quigley, David Swanson, and Ann Wright, among others. Drawing from diverse philosophical and spiritual traditions, contributors share their experiences of working for peace and justice and discuss the obstacles to both. They address a wide range of contemporary problems, including the war on terror, killer drones, the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, mass surveillance, the human cost of war, political-economic impediments to peace, violent extremism, the role of women in peace-building, and the continued threat of nuclear weapons. With its stories of how peace activists found their calling and its exploration of why the world still needs peace activism, the book offers a vision rooted in human community and hope for the future.



Peace and Security

Author : George A. Lopez

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 43,29 MB

Release : 1997

Category : History

ISBN : 9780847685950

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Widely known for his creative work in international affairs education, George A. Lopez joins with the former managing editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nancy J. Myers, to select recent articles from the Bulletin best illustrating a wide range of issues on peace and security.



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