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Klappentext: Religionen sind wichtige Akteurinnen der Zivilgesellschaft. Die Frage, wie sie miteinander umgehen, ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Zukunft pluraler, offener Gesellschaften. Für dieses Buch haben sich drei Akteure der interreligiösen Verständigung erstmals zusammengetan: Die national und international agierenden Organisationen Religions for Peace und Stiftung Weltethos sowie der Bundeskongress der Räte der Religionen als Verbund kommunaler interreligiöser Initiativen. Das Buch enthält Steckbriefe von siebzig interreligiösen Organisationen und Initiativen. Ergänzt wird es durch Reflexionen über die Geschichte und die Zukunft des interreligiösen Dialogs in Deutschland sowie über die Rolle von Religion in der Zivilgesellschaft.

Menschenrechtsverteidiger sind mutige, besondere Menschen, die sich für andere einsetzen, oft unter hohen Risiken. Dieses Buch zum 25. Jahrestag der UN-Erklärung präsentiert sieben verschiedene Lebensgeschichten von Menschenrechtsverteidigern aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Hintergründen. Es zeigt die Vielfalt des Engagements für Menschenrechte weltweit. Im zweiten Teil des Buches wird das globale Schutzsystem für Menschenrechtsverteidiger skizziert. Trotz 25 Jahren Anerkennung ihrer Bedeutung für Demokratie, Frieden und Freiheit sind sie vielerorts immer noch unzureichend geschützt und unterstützt

Jelena Kostjutschenko berichtete viele Jahre lang über die politische Repression in ihrem Heimatland, bis ihre Zeitung eingestellt und sie ins Exil gezwungen wurde. Ihr Buch zeichnet ein eindringliches Bild von Russland aus der Sicht derer, die es brutal unterdrückt - Dorfmädchen, die zur Sexarbeit rekrutiert werden, queere Menschen in der Provinz, Patientinnen und Ärzte auf einer ukrainischen Entbindungsstation oder Journalistinnen wie sie selbst. In ihren packenden Reportagen und persönlichen Essays wirft sie einen schonungslosen Blick hinter Putins Propaganda und zeigt eine Welt, die Lesern in Westeuropa ansonsten verborgen bleibt: die Lebensrealität der Ausgegrenzten und Ausgeschlossenen.

How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought - a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show that it is imperative that we address not only the resolution of war, but how and if a war as waged can accommodate a future peace. The essays collectively solidify the topic and underline its centrality to the future of military ethics, strategy, and war.

Das Nachschlagewerk enthält Definitionen von Konzepten der Internationalen Sicherheit und des Friedens. Es orientiert sich am jeweiligen Stand der Forschung, was es von den üblichen Stichwortsammlungen in traditionellen und elektronischen Wörterbüchern unterscheidet. Den Leser:innen wird mit etwa 800 Begriffen und über 1000 Definitionen und dazugehörigen Erklärungen ein Instrument zur Verfügung gestellt, um wissenschaftliche Arbeitsdefinitionen leicht zugänglich zu machen. Zum anderen soll Praktiker:innen mit dem Lexikon die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, schnell auf wissenschaftliche Begriffe zurückzugreifen. Hilfreich für die wissenschaftliche Forschung und für Praktiker:innen gleichermaßen sind die etwa 5000 Querverweise zu anderen Begriffen sowie die umfassenden Literaturhinweise. Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an Lehrende und Studierende der Politikwissenschaft sowie an Forscher:innen und an Praktiker:innen aus Politik, Verwaltung und Journalismus.

This book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice. With a focus on sociological theory and its development, it reconstructs the long journey made by the social sciences towards the reconstruction, in a single theoretical paradigm, of the problems associated with the implementation of conditions of peace and sustainability. Beginning from the premise that environmental issues are never purely environmental, but entail political, economic and social implications, Sustainable Development and Peace offers an understanding of where we are heading and how, reflecting on present challenges and possible directions for the future.

In this text, Atalia Omer argues that the efforts of western religious organisations in peacebuilding campaigns often reinforce neocolonial practices and disempower local religious actors. Focusing on Kenya and the Philippines, she shows that religious peacebuilding practices are both empowering and depoliticizing. Further, she argues that these religious actors generate decolonial openings regardless of how closed or open their religious communities are. The book not only uses decolonial and intersectional prisms to expose the entrenched and ongoing colonial dynamics operative in religion and the practices of peacebuilding and development in the global South, but it also speaks to decolonial theory through stories of transformation and survival.

"This path-breaking book uncovers the important, under-appreciated role of armed opposition groups turned political parties in shaping long-term patterns of politics after war. Based on an empirically grounded and theoretically informed retrospective on nearly thirty years of post-conflict democratic state-building efforts, it examines whether this practice has contributed to peace and finds that engaging post-rebel parties in electoral politics has proven to be a viable long-term strategy for bringing political stability, that disparate post-rebel parties from different political contexts invest heavily in electoral politics and that few post-rebel parties actively seek return to civil conflict as a solution after becoming a political party. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in democracy, governance, elections, political parties, post-conflict peacebuilding, and more broadly to international relations, comparative politics, and regional politics"--

Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives. These initiatives have used both development programs and gender mainstreaming to advance women's empowerment, with the aim of making peacebuilding more effective as well as building more stable societies and efficient economies. This goal has been manifested in a wide range of programs and projects-or "gender interventions" - including economic empowerment measures, gender quotas, gender-responsive budgeting, and legal reforms. Yet, the results have been uneven, provoking a sizable debate among scholars and practitioners seeking to explain the shortcomings and improve the outcomes.In Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy, Melissa Johnston explains why gender interventions often fail to help those who most need them, using the case of Timor-Leste, a country subjected to high levels of peacebuilding and gender interventions between 1999 and 2017. Looking at three types of gender interventions - gender-responsive budgeting, the law against domestic violence, and microfinance initiatives - Johnston argues that these reforms have produced mixed results because they reinscribe entrenched class and gender hierarchies in their implementation. Focusing on the connection between politics, economics, and gender, Johnston identifies the emergence of an elite class coalition, built on kinship and gender order in Timor-Leste as the root of the problem. Peacebuilders have made concessions to elites and violent men to keep the peace, a tendency amplified by "local turn" approaches to peacebuilding. As a result, deep inequalities remain and violence against women is endemic across the country. Compelling and insightful, Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy makes the case that as peacebuilders seek to rebuild war-torn societies, understanding the intersection of social and gender order is more important than ever.

"This book adopts a comparative politics model in order to analyze and evaluate pressing issues in Guatemala, including a floundering economy, backsliding in the military's civilianization, retreats in state power and peacemaking commitments, autocratization, and the repression of social movements"--

This book explores the challenges of conflict resolution in protracted conflicts and conceptualises and analyses the practice of engagement without recognition in de facto states.Increasingly, engagement without recognition is seen as a promising approach to conflict resolution in de facto states, but little is known about its implementation and results. This book addresses that lacuna and develops an analytical model to assess international engagement, focusing on implementation on the ground. This model enables a comprehensive analysis of international engagement's scope, areas, and methods. Further, the book also explores the context of engagement in de facto states, which has a significant impact on its implementation and results. In this way, the book also advances our understanding of the opportunities, obstacles, and limitations of engagement without recognition. The analysis is based on the current EU engagement in Abkhazia and draws from other cases in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and beyond and finds that international engagement with de facto states is more comprehensive and multifaceted than previously known. However, it also faces some distinct challenges and produces modest results. Finally, the book provides practical recommendations on how to better utlilise the peacebuilding potential of engagement without recognition. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, statehood, peace and conflict studies, and international relations.

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles, making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case studies and approaches. Comprising 28 chapters that present key insights on peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, the volume has implications for teaching and training, as well as for practice and policy. The handbook is divided into four thematic parts. Part 1 focuses on critical dimensions of ethnic conflicts, including root causes, gender, external involvements, emancipatory peacebuilding, hatred as a public health issue, environmental issues, American nationalism, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2 focuses on peacebuilders' roles, including Indigenous peacemaking, nonviolent accompaniment, peace leadership in the military, interreligious peacebuilders, local women, and young people. Part 3 addresses the past and shaping of the future, including a discussion of public memory, heritage rights and monuments, refugees, trauma and memory, aggregated trauma in the African-American community, exhumations after genocide, and a healing-centered approach to conflict. Part 4 presents case studies on Sri Lanka's postwar reconciliation process, peacebuilding in Mindanao, the transformative peace negotiation in Aceh and Bougainville, external economic aid for peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, Indigenous and local peacemaking, and a continuum of peacebuilding focal points. The handbook offers perspectives on the breadth and significance of peacebuilding work in ethnic conflicts throughout the world. This volume will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, ethnic conflict, security studies, and international relations.