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Introduction to International Peacekeeping and Post-conflict Democratic Reform -- Police Reform and Development within the Context of Peacekeeping Deployments -- The Role of the New Zealand Police in International Peacekeeping and in providing Post-conflict Assistance -- The Role of the New Zealand Police in Police Reform and International Peacekeeping in Afghanistan -- New Zealand Police Peacekeeping Operations in Papua New Guinea -- New Zealand Police Rule of Law Reform Efforts in the Solomon Islands -- The New Zealand Police Peacekeeping Deployment in Timor-Leste -- Contributions of the Canadian Police in International Peacekeeping Missions -- The role of police reform in conflict resolution in Ukraine's Donbas Region -- Enhancing law enforcement and criminal justice within Kosovo: Evaluating the challenges in rule of law reform in a post-conflict developing democracy -- Challenges and lessons learned in United Nations Mentoring of local police in Haiti in 2009-2010 -- Complex Acculturation - The hidden cultural challenge in United Nations police missions -- Community conflict associated with PTSD and negative outcomes for United Nations police officers -- An Analysis of the Experiences of Police Officers in Post-conflict Peacekeeping Missions: the New Zealand Police Perspectives -- The Policing of Post-conflict Nations and Regions -- Afterword: Final Thoughts about International Policing and Peacekeeping.

This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children's lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children's lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third and final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children. J. Marshall Beier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. Jana Tabak is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. .

Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and relegated to the sidelines as observers or limited to informal peacebuilding strategies. Yet there is enormous potential in these strategies as women often strive to build bridges across political, ethnic, religious, clan and other differences through alliances arising from common concerns around violence, land, access to resources, and protection of their families and communities, and address sources of conflict at both national and local levels. Drawing on cutting-edge research by scholars and women's rights activists in South Sudan, Sudan, Algeria, northern Nigeria, and Somalia, this book focuses on the consequences of the continuing exclusions of women from peace talks and from post-conflict governance structures. The case studies reveal how peacebuilding is gendered and why this matters in developing meaningful and sustainable approaches to peacebuilding. Examining how women activists have made a difference through informal peacebuilding activities, the contributors explore women's efforts to reshapethe post-conflict context by struggling for legislative and constitutional reforms and by advocating for political representation and political inclusion more generally within peacebuilding processes. They also look at how women have pushed back against the conservative Islamist forces that today dominate much armed conflict in Africa. Suggesting that women's formal participation in peace negotiations is vital in bringing about an end to conflict and preventing its resumption, as well as the one of the most effective strategies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and NGOs involved in development, conflict resolution and peacebuilding

Introduction / Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora, Andrés Molina-Ochoa, and Nancy C. Doubleday -- The possibility of peace / Sergio Jaramillo Caro -- Notes on transitional justice in Colombia : a view from 2014 / Jon Elster -- Essential elements and implementation challenges of the final agreement / Gustavo Gallón Giraldo and Juan Carlos Ospina -- The Colombian peace agreement : a lost opportunity for social transformation? / Maria Paula Saffon Sanín -- Transforming transitional justice from below : Colombia's pioneering peace proposal / Jennifer L. McCoy, Jelena Subotic, and Ryan E. Carlin -- Compatibility between transitional justice tools in Colombian and international law / Juanita Goebertus Estrada -- Transitional justice in Colombia : the Amnesty Law 1820 of 2016 and the international legal framework / Kai Ambos -- Judging the justice of the Colombian Final Agreement / Colleen Murphy -- The special jurisdiction for peace : main features and legal challenges / Danilo Rojas Betancourth -- The right to the truth in the Colombian conflict : realities and fiction / Alfredo Duplat and Andrés Molina-Ochoa -- Land reform and transition in contemporary Colombia / Nelson Camilo Sánchez -- The gender component in the Colombian peace process : obstacles to its inclusion and implementation / Patricia Pabón and Javier Aguirre -- The rights of Afro-Colombian communities in the final agreement and its mechanisms of implementation / Xiomara Cecilia Balanta-Moreno and Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas -- The politics of education reforms in post-conflict societies : a cautionary tale for the Colombian case / Claudia Milena Díaz-Ríos -- Legitimizing and enshrining peace commitments : inclusivity and constitution-building in the Colombian peace process / Diana Isabel Güiza-Gómez and Rodrigo Uprimny-Yepes -- The courts' possible contribution to a dialogic democracy : the case of the peace agreements in Colombia / Roberto Gargarella -- The long road and the promise : Colombia's peace process as an instance of aesthetic justice / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera -- Outsider reflections : future peace? / Nancy C. Doubleday.

Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With rare access to actors during the Colombian negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC), Sophie Haspeslagh shows how proscription makes negotiations harder and more prolonged. By introducing the concept of 'linguistic ceasefire', Haspeslagh adds to our understanding of the timing and sequencing of peace processes in the context of proscription. Linguistic ceasefire has three main components: first, recognise the conflict; second, discard the 'terrorist' label, and third, uncouple the act and the actor. These measures remove the symbolic impact of proscription, even where de-listing is not possible ahead of negotiations. With relevance for more than half of the conflicts around the world in which an armed group is listed as a terrorist organisation, 'linguistic ceasefire' helps to explain why certain conflicts remain stuck in the 'terrorist' framing, while others emerge from it. International proscription regimes criminalise both the actor and the act of terrorism. Proscribing peace calls for an end to the amalgamation between acts and actors. By focussing on the acts instead, Haspeslagh argues, international policy would be better able to consider the violent actions both of armed groups and those of the state. By separating the act and the actor, change - and thus peace - become possible.

Introduction -- History of UN intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War -- Conceptual framework : Civil War through a legal lens -- Theoretical framework : restoring the Rule of Law after Civil War -- Cross-national evidence : UN intervention and the Rule of Law across Africa -- Sub-national evidence I : the Rule of Law and its discontents in Liberia -- Sub-national evidence II : evaluating the UN from the bottom up -- Sub-national evidence III : UN intervention and the Rule of Law in Liberia -- Implications for Africa and beyond.

"This book develops an "empirical realist" theory to enable the United States to respond effectively to rising security threats and to seize new opportunities for global governance more successfully than have past policies. A synthesis of peace research and security studies shows that a global grand strategy for human security, with U.S. national security folded into it, is likely to produce more security for the United States than a grand strategy for national security pursued as an end in itself. More security advantages are likely to result from maximizing the "causes" or correlates of peace than from maximizing U.S. military power. Peace reigns when these correlates are present: all nations' security fears are addressed; people can meet basic needs; nations enjoy reciprocal rights and duties; they are treated equitably; their lives are predictable because the international system is governed by the rule of law; and they participate in the decisions that affect their lives through fair representation in democratic global governing processes. This approach revolutionizes thinking about national security policy by transforming it into human security policy. Evidence suggests that the anarchic, militarized balance-of-power system can be gradually changed with help from enhanced international lawmaking and enforcing capacities. To promote change, concerned policymakers and citizens could withdraw their support from U.S. policies that do not serve the common good and work to implement a global grand strategy for human security that would simultaneously serve U.S. security interests and uphold the value of human dignity for all"--

"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace. The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues, and fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions. The volume covers the gendered nature of five major themes: Methodologies and genealogies (including theories, concepts, histories, methodologies) Politics, power, and violence (including the ways in which violence is created, maintained, reproduced, and the gendered dynamics of its instantiations) Institutional and societal interventions to promote peace (including those by national, regional, international organizations, and civil society or informal groups/bodies) Bodies, sexualities, and health (including sexual health, biopolitics, sexual orientation) Global inequalities (including climate change, aid, global political economy). This handbook will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, feminist studies, gender studies, International Relations and politics"--