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This book analyses the European Union's (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EU's role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict management. EU missions and operations have, for the most part, been deployed to promote peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict situations, in particular through capacity-building, reforms and rebuilding of state structures. This book focuses explicitly on the peacebuilding dimension of the CSDP while exploring why and how the EU has adopted peacebuilding in its CSDP actions as a norm and a practice. It analyses how peacebuilding in EU missions is conceptualised, designed, governed and implemented. The book examines the extent to which EU missions and operations reflect a normative and practical commitment of the EU to peacebuilding – that is to say, the extent to which CSDP instruments have been shaped by international peacebuilding norms and EU foreign policy. Drawing on empirical insights from decision- and policymaking processes in Brussels as well as from missions in Mali and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book offers critical perspectives on the EU's role as an international peacebuilding actor. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, peace and conflict studies, security studies and international relations.

Chapter 1: What is Peace and Human Rights for Timorese? -- Chapter 2: Transitional Justice: A Dispute over Reconciliation and Justice -- Chapter 3: Impunity for Human Rights Violations and Its Consequences in Timor-Leste -- Chapter 4: Democratic Discourse and Consensus in Timor-Leste: Reintegration to Neoliberal Capitalism? -- Chapter 5: Provedoria Dos Direitos Humanos e Justiça: Between Human Rights Activism and Limitation -- Chapter 6: Political Uncertainty and Its Implications for Wellbeing Rights of Timorese Society -- Chapter 7: Patriarchy and Women's Rights in Timor-Leste -- Chapter 8: The Neglected Rights of Elderly Women in Timor-Leste -- Chapter 9: Environmental Justice in Timor-Leste: Legal Practices and Challenges.

Introduction: Examining Peace and Violence in Brazil -- Part 1: Understanding Challenges to Peace in Brazil: Conceptual Debates and the Role of the State -- Chapter 1. Peace and Violence in South American: From Security to a Peace Studies Approach -- Chapter 2. Conflict over Peace in the Southern Cone Borderlands: Hybrid Formations of Security Governance from a Brazilian Perspective -- Chapter 3. Contemporary Patterns of Violence and the Inside/Outside Problématique: the Case of Brazil -- Chapter 4. Transnational Organized Crime and the Role of the Armed Forces in Brazil: the Case of Operation Agata -- Part 2: Peaceful Responses to Overcome Social Violence in Brazil -- Chapter 5. The Sustainable Development Goals as a Peace Agenda: Some Considerations of the Brazilian Case -- Chapter 6. Practices to Build Peace in Times of Crisis: Experiences from Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 7. Favela Peace Formation in a Violent State: Perspectives from Favelas in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 8. Gun Policy, Violence, and Peace: Examining the Challenges Faced by Civil Society and the State in Brazil.

Section I: Theories, Concepts, Approaches1. Introduction: Narratives, Political Identity and International NegotiationFen Osler Hampson and Amrita Narlikar 2. Bargaining in Muslim Arabia: Narrative Lessons From the Qoran, Hadith, and 1001 NightsWilliam ZartmanSection II: Narratives of Foreign Policies and Economic Negotiations3. Germany, Europe, and the Power of NarrativesThomas Bagger4. St George triumphs: The Brexit narrative and negotiationsBrendan Vickers5. A Win-Win Compromise: How Canada Won at Home While America Came First in NAFTA RenegotiationsMeredith Lilly6. The 5G Debate: Competing Narratives in the New Tech WarOliver Stuenkel7. Negotiating the InternetFen Hampson and Paul Twomey8. The Technology Nexus of AI/ML/Data: Narratives as Agents of Change and Lock-inDan Ciuriak, Maria Ptashkina and Vlada RodionovaSection III: Narratives of Peace and Conflict Negotiations9. The Role of Narratives in Negotiations: The Case of the FARC and ColombiaSophie Haspeslagh and I William Zartman10. The Making of War Heroes: Narratives, Negotiations, and Former Warring Parties in Post-Conflict SocietiesJulia Strasheim11. Narratives and Negotiations in Foreign Aid: How Post-Genocide Rwanda Uses Narratives to Influence Perceptions of PowerHaley J. Swedlund12. Narratives, Negotiation, and the Iraq WarsRodger A. Payne13. Memory and Narratives of Hate and Forgiveness in Post-Conflict SocietiesValérie Rosoux14. Discordant Narratives: India and the US in the Indo-PacificSamir Saran and Akhil Deo15. Narratives in Regional Arms Control Negotiations: The Iran AgreementHenner Fürtig 16. The Rise and Fall of Arms Control: How Narratives Impacted US-Russia Post-Cold War Arms Control NegotiationsMikhail TroitskiySection IV: Conclusion17. Lessons for Theory and PracticeFen Osler Hampson and Amrita Narlikar

Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not surprising that scholars disagree as to whether power sharing actually reduces conflict. Based on systematic data and innovative methods, this book comes to a mostly positive conclusion by focusing on practices rather than merely formal institutions, studying power sharing's preventive effect, analyzing how power sharing is invoked in anticipation of conflict, and by showing that territorial power sharing can be effective if combined with inclusion at the center. The authors' findings demonstrate that power sharing is usually the best option to reduce and prevent civil conflict in divided states.

Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But despite persistent territorial disputes, regime instability, and interstate rivalries, both regions have avoided large-scale war for decades. What accounts for the lack of war in these regions, and importantly, how are conflicts managed? In Practicing Peace, Aarie Glas offers a comparative regional perspective on conflict management and diplomacy in Southeast Asia and South America. Glas finds that regional interstate relations are shaped by particular habitual dispositions—discrete sets of processual and substantive qualities of relations understood and enacted by diplomatic communities of practice. Different habitual dispositions in each case shape conflict management and regionalism in important ways, and lead to a tolerance of limited regional violence. Glas expands on new developments in social International Relations theory to develop a practice-oriented and interpretive account of regional relations and explores the existence of habitual dispositions across crucial cases of regional conflict management, including the Southeast Asian response to the Preah Vihear dispute in 2011 and the South American response to the Cenepa conflict in 1995. Drawing on novel research methods and detailed interviews with regional practitioners, Practicing Peace challenges existing scholarly claims of peace in Southeast Asia and South America. Instead, Glas argues that officials successfully manage pervasive conflict short of war in both regions. He provides an in-depth look into how diplomacy unfolds and peace is practiced within diplomatic communities, from government actors to organizational officials, as they attempt to respond to and resolve territorial disputes.

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A fundamental challenge plagues the global peacebuilding community. How can technocratic approaches to peacebuilding that are rooted in short-term, project-based execution of activities, further the longer-term transformative outcomes like altering young people's attitudes and beliefs about peace and violence? In response to this global challenge, in Peacebuilding Legacy, Sukanya Podder analyzes the long-term effects of peacebuilding programmes involving children and young people. Podder unpacks the concept of peacebuilding legacy through the lens of time, transformation, and intergenerational peace. Podder also develops unique qualitative cues for measuring legacy in terms of the institutional, normative, and organizational logics. If norms resonate strongly with the local context, they are likely to encourage strong retention and meaningful adoption over time. Successful institutionalization of project models through planned handover to successor national organizations, or government departments, holds the key to stronger local ownership. Organizational learning and reflection can support this process through a more strategic approach to programming, and through post-exit studies. Regarding attitude change, Podder found that, the media and peace education projects that targeted individuals' ingrained beliefs and values but overlooked the role of group social norms had only limited persuasive effects. To shift the values, practices, norms, and beliefs of the younger generation, the mindset of the older generation must also be targeted. Changes in the legal, political, economic, and other social institutions are critical for long-term and meaningful transformation. This requires adopting an ecological model of peace.

This comprehensive Research Handbook considers the place of human security, both in practice and as a concept within international law, examining the preconditions for and consequences of applying human security to international legal thinking and practice. It also proposes a future international law in which human security is central to the law's purpose. Contributions by leading authors in the field critically engage with 25 years of human security practice in different areas of international law and explore the challenges, successes and setbacks of realising human security in a state-based international legal order whilst re-conceptualizing central elements of international law from a human security perspective. Organised around six core themes, the Research Handbook shows how human security can be used as an overarching framework to preserve peace, protect people and counter vulnerability through international law. Progressive and engaging, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for scholars and students of public international law, security, and international relations, who wish to further their knowledge of human security as the central purpose of international law.

This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts: Norman Cousins and Suzanne Massie in the Cold War, Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland conflict and Uri Avnery in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book defines the phenomenon, examines the resources and activities of private peace entrepreneurs and their impact on the official diplomacy, and examines the conditions under which they can play an effective role in peace-making processes.

This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding. With a range of perspectives, the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the continuum between conflict prevention and post-war reconstruction) and address both micro and macro peacebuilding issues in the five regions of Africa. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on a single case study or few case studies in peacebuilding scholarship, the chapters examine critical peacebuilding issues at the local, state, regional, extra-regional, and continental levels in Africa. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, peace and security studies, regional organizations, development studies, state-building, and more broadly to international relations, public policy, diplomacy, international organizations, and the wider social sciences.

This fully revised and expanded edition of Diplomacy, written by an internationally respected researcher and teacher of the subject, is richly illustrated with examples from the worlds of health and commerce as well as high politics. The instances included are mostly contemporary, but considerable historical background to the diplomatic methods themselves is always provided. Among other features, new to this edition is a list of topics for seminar discussion or essays, as well as annotated further reading at the end of each chapter. Following a chapter on the foreign ministry, Part I of this book deals with the art of negotiation (prenegotiations, around-the-table negotiations, diplomatic momentum, packaging agreements, and following up); Part II covers conventional modes of diplomacy (embassies, telecommunications, consulates, secret intelligence by 'legals', conferences, summits, and public diplomacy); and Part III examines diplomacy in hostile circumstances (embassy substitutes such as representative offices and interests sections, special missions, and mediation). Students and educators of diplomacy will find much of value in the latest edition of this highly regarded and much-cited textbook. G. R. Berridge is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, UK, sometime Occasional Teacher at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and a Senior Fellow of DiploFoundation. He was Associate Editor for diplomatists of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Peacebuilding Paradigms focuses on how seven paradigms from the Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Policy Analysis subfields - Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, Cosmopolitanism, Critical Theories, Locality, and Policy - analyze peacebuilding. The contributors explore the arguments of each paradigm, and then compare and contrast them. This book suggests that a hybrid approach that incorporates useful insights from each of these paradigms best explains how and why peacebuilding projects and policies succeed in some cases, fail in others, and provide lessons learned. Rather than merely using a theoretical approach, the authors use case studies to demonstrate why a focus on just one paradigm alone as an explanatory model is insufficient. This collection directly at how peacebuilding theory affects peacebuilding policies, and provides recommendations for best practices for future peacebuilding missions.