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The result of a long collaboration between a Kenyan-Somali mediator and a Swiss scholar-practitioner, Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts introduces an innovative, practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies? This approach breaks out of the insider/outsider dichotomy to develop a framework for achieving peace in the most challenging of contexts—a framework that unites outsider perspectives on mediation methodology with the rich experiences and reflections that only local peace practitioners can provide. The authors lay out the framework step by step, present case studies that show it in action, and clarify how local peace and security structures can act as a bridge between short-term mediation and long-term state-building efforts around the world.

Introduction: The war and the campaigns for recovery -- Postwar Bosnia : a new national disorder -- Introduction to refugee return -- Obstacles to return and breakthroughs in the late 1990s -- Return to Mostar and other parts of Herzegovina -- Postwar Srebrenica -- Truth and justice : another version of activism -- Justice in the courts -- Reporting history : reckoning versus denial -- Return and recovery, continued : a "new normal" in Srebrenica -- The economic life of postwar Srebrenica -- Life in Suceska : Serbs of Srebrenica -- Elections, repression, and resistence -- War and postwar events in Prijedor municipality -- Corruption in the Republika Srpska and Prijedor -- War crimes prosecution and justice in Prijedor -- Grassroots activism for justice in Prijedor -- The missing, Kevljani, survival, emigration -- Denial of war crimes at Srebrenica and Prijedor -- Epilogue: The state of Bosnia-Herzegovina and hopes for activism.

The 1713 Peace Of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects', edited by Alfred H.A. Soons, presents an interdisciplinary collection of contributions marking the occasion of the tercentenary of the Peace of Utrecht. The chapters examine the enduring effects of the Peace Treaties concluded at Utrecht in 1713, from the perspectives of international law, history and international relations with cross-cutting themes: The European Balance of Power; The Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies; and Ideas and Ideals; the Development of the International Legal Order

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution. Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism's partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls "Holocaustia," and the Israel lobby's dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the stage for new struggles and "better problems" for both Israel and the Palestinians. Drawing on the history of scientific ideas that once seemed certain but were ultimately discarded, Lustick encourages shifting attention from two-state blueprints that provide no map for realistic action to the democratizing competition that arises when different subgroups, forced to be part of the same polity, redefine their interests and form new alliances to pursue them. Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

Paz y PIB / Marc Hofstetter -- Conflicto, sectores, regiones y crecimiento / Laura Beatriz Gómez y Hernando Zuleta -- Eficiencia del gasto en defensa y seguridad en Colombia : un análisis de envolvente de datos aplicado al Ejército Nacional / Lucas Ernesto Gutiérrez -- Muros permeables en las escuelas : desempeño educativo y seguridad / Arturo Harker, Andrés Molano, Juan Camilo Cristancho y Santiago Gómez -- La incidencia de las transferencias de Familias en Acción sobre la violencia doméstica en Colombia / Adriana Camacho, Catherine Rodríguez y María Camila Rivera -- Arborización y hurto a peatones en Bogotá / Fernando Carriazo y Jorge Tovar -- Comparación de diferentes modelos para la predicción del crimen en Bogotá / Francisco Barreras, Carlos Díaz, Álvaro J. Riascos y Mónica Ribero -- Entender y combatir el crimen : modelo de comportamiento criminal basado en la provisión de información / Nicolás Rodríguez y Andrés Zambrano -- Inclusión financiera y lavado de activos : evidencia empírica para Colombia / Hernando Bayona-Rodríguez, Catherine Rodríguez y Sebastián Melo -- El sistema antilavado de activos (ALA) y contra la financiación del terrorismo (CFT) en Colombia / Hernando Bayona-Rodríguez y Javier Alberto Gutiérrez

South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its life as an independent nation. Less than three years after gaining independence in 2011 following a violent liberation war, the country slid back into conflict. In the wake of infighting within the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), violence erupted in South Sudan's capital, Juba, in December 2013. The conflict pitted President Salva Kiir's predominantly Dinka presidential guard against Nuer fighters loyal to the former Vice President Riek Machar. As fighting spread across the country, it has taken on an increasingly ethnic nature. Ceasefires have been agreed, but there have been repeated violations by all sides. Today the conflict continues unabated and the humanitarian situation grows ever more urgent. This book analyses the crisis and some of its contributing factors. The contributors have worked on South Sudan for a number of years and bring a wealth of knowledge and different perspectives to this discussion. Providing the most comprehensive analysis yet of South Sudan's social and political history, post-independence governance systems and the current challenges for development, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in the continuing struggle for peace in South Sudan.--- Back cover