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This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes the 'figure' of fragile states as the unit the analysis and situates the study of fragility, governance and political adaptation within contemporary global and local political, economic and socio-cultural contexts. The chapters offer an indispensable, econometrically informed guide to better understanding issues that have an impact on fragility in governance and nation-building and affect policy-making and program design targeting institutions in various circumstances. These issues, as they relate to the indicators of fragility, are the contexts and correlates of armed conflicts on statehood and state fragility, the poverty-trap, pandemics and household food insecurity, and child labor. Case studies from across 46 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are assessed to offer clear, broad and multidisciplinary views of what the future holds for them and the international donor communities at large. Regarding state-led interventions, the authors utilize insightful statistical methods and epistemologies to explain the correlates of behavioral language frames and conflict de-escalation on battle-related deaths across the conflict zones within the sub-region, the regional and country-level interventions to end child labor, the institutional frameworks and interventions in the advancement of food security and health.

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and contestation. The book focuses on how the R2P doctrine has been both consolidated and contested along three dimensions, regarding its meaning, status and application. The first focuses on how the R2P should be understood in a theoretical sense, exploring it through the lens of the International Relations constructivist approach and through different toolkits available to conventional and critical constructivists. The second focuses on how the R2P interacts with other normative frameworks, and how this interaction can lead to a range of effects from mutual reinforcement and co-evolution through to unanticipated feedback that can undermine consensus and flexibility. The third focuses on how key state actors – including the United States, China and Russia – understand, use and contest the R2P. Together, the book's chapters demonstrate that broad aspects of the R2P are consolidated in the sense that they are accepted by states even while other, specific aspects, remain subject to contestation in practice and in policy.

1: Introduction -- 2: Asian Peacebuilding: Theory and Practice -- 3: A Typology of Mid-Space Local Bridge-Builders -- 4: Roles of Rebel Gatekeepers in Mid-Space Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Bangsamoro -- 5: Roles of Religious Leaders as Bridge-builders: A Case Study of Cambodia -- 6: Illiberal Peacebuilding in India and Indonesia: The Dangers of the Hybrid Approach -- 7: Conclusion

1 Introduction -- 2 EU Mediation Effectiveness: an Analytical Framework -- 3 The EU as a Mediator in the Conflict over Montenegro's Independence -- 4 The EU as a Mediator in the Kosovo-Serbia Conflict -- 5 The EU as a Co-Mediator in the Geneva International Discussions on South Ossetia -- 6 Conclusions -- Annex

Chapter 1: The Suicide Gap -- Chapter 2: Understandings of Suicide -- Chapter 3: Why Peace and Conflict Studies? -- Chapter 4: Medical Suicide -- Chapter 5: Instrumental Suicide -- Chapter 6: Social, Cultural and Political violence -- Chapter 7: Intention, Motivation and Intervention -- Chapter 8: Why not Suicide? -- Chapter 9: Peacebuilding Suicide

This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of past violence to articulate their grievance, and by encouraging the state to respond to and provide them with a meaningful remedy. This usually happens either through a process of adjudication, whereby human rights can offer guidance to the judiciary as to the best way to address such grievances, or through the passing and implementation of human rights laws and policies that seek to promote peace. However, this positive relationship between human rights and peace is both qualified and context specific. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of four case studies, the book identifies the conditions that can support the effective use of human rights as peacebuilding tools. Developing these, the book recommends a series of strategies that peacebuilders should adopt and rely on.

This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm. The volume analyzes this process at international, regional and local levels, and identifies an urgent need to progress from conceptual debates towards implementation in practice, in order to understand how to operationalize the preventive dimension of the R2P. It argues that R2P implementation necessarily entails the efforts of actors across governance levels, and that it is more effective when integrated into existing sites of practice aimed at strengthening human rights and accountability for populations in atrocity risk situations. The book addresses R2P implementation in the context of agendas such as resilience, gender, development cooperation, human rights, transitional justice, peacekeeping and civil-military relations. It details progress and challenges for implementation in the United Nations, regionally in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia, and through national atrocity prevention architectures. The volume provides readers with a breadth of understanding in terms of both the development and current status of the R2P norm, and practical tools for advancing its implementation.

"In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO's deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation's political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the 'Euromissiles' crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO's diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles' deployment in East and West Germany"...From publisher's website

1. Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of the Regional Security Complex in the MENA Region -- 3. Global Tipping Point? Stabilisation in Afghanistan Since 2001 -- 4. A Diplomatic Perspective on Stabilisation -- 5. Non-State Armed Actors and Transitions from Conflict to Peace: Lessons from Peace Processes and Implications for Stabilisation -- 6. GCC Approaches to Stabilisation: Compatible or Competing? -- 7. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey: The Political Drivers of 'Stabilisation' -- 8. Beyond Daesh. The UAE's Approach and Contribution to International Stabilisation and Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq -- 9. Economic Stabilisation of the MENA Region: 'Old' vs 'New' Actors -- 10. Urban Warfare: Stabilisation of Cities -- 11. Redrawing the Lines in the Sand? Quests for Decentralisation, Regional Autonomy and Independence among Syrian Kurds and South Yemeni separatists -- 12. Egypt and Turkey: Identity as a Source of Instability -- 13. Distributing Justice: Transitional Justice and Stabilisation in North Africa -- 14. The Soldier and the Curator: The Challenges of Defending Cultural Property in Conflict Areas

The Tajikistan conflict and early peacemaking efforts -- The inter-Tajik negotiations and multiparty mediation -- Mediators' interests, consensus and cooperation -- Coordination in multiparty mediation -- Complementarity and interconnectedness among intermediary roles.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Francisco Rojas Aravena -- Chapter 2. The Complex Concept of Peace in an Uncertain World. Fernando Blasco -- Chapter 3. Peace, Governance and Security in Africa: Getting it Right. Samuel Kale Ewusi and Kingsley L. Ngange -- Chapter 4. Prospects of Peace and Conflict in the Middle East in the 21st Century. Amr Abdalla, Lilya Akay, and Zeynya Shikur -- Chapter 5. Latin America and the International Court of Justice. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo -- Chapter 6. Securitizing South China Sea: ASEANs Response to Traditional and Non-Traditional Maritime Security Conflicts. Alma María O. Salvador and Daisy C. Salvador -- Chapter 7. Role of International Adjudication in Conflict Resolution and Transformation. Mihir Kanade -- Chapter 8. The European Union: A Sound Superpower in a Multipolar World. Enrique Barón Crespo and Pelayo Castro -- Chapter 9. The Belt and Road: Building a Community of Shared Interests Together. Zhang Xiaoyu -- Chapter 10. The African Union in the Present Context. Ekwealor Chinedu Thomas -- Chapter 11. Religious Fundamentalism and Violent Extremism. Zahid Shahab Ahmed -- Chapter 12. Terrorist Fighters, Mass Surveillance, and International Law. Mariateresa Garrido -- Chapter 13. Achieving Food Security in the Face of Inequality, Climate Change and Conflict. Olivia Sylvester -- Chapter 14. Using Participatory Action Research to Define Cultures of Peace. Heather Kertyzia

In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. He discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. Gilbert highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds. Drawing upon nearly two years of fieldwork studying in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gilbert's probing analysis identifies previously overlooked sites, processes, and effects of international intervention, and suggests new comparative opportunities for the study of transnational action that seeks to save and secure human lives and improve the human condition. Above all, International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy foregrounds and analyzes the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques.

Antisemitismus ist Teil der deutschen Geschichte, aber auch der deutschen Gegenwart. Insbesondere in Schulen kommt es immer wieder zu antisemitischen Beschimpfungenoder gar Übergriffen. Lehrkräfte, aber auch alle anderen, die mit Jugendlichen arbeiten, sehen sich daher mit der Frage konfrontiert, wie sie mit dem Thema umgehen sollen. Das Handbuch hilft in diesem Sinne nicht nur dabei, verschiedene antisemitische Phänomene zu erkennen und einzuordnen zu können, es bietet neben einführenden Textenauch zahlreiche Methoden für den Einsatz in der schulischen und außerschulischen Bildungsarbeit.