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Der politische Wert der Organisation der Vereinten Nationen (UNO) wird meist unterschätzt. Dieses Handbuch stellt die vielfältigen Elemente und oft schwer durchschaubaren Regelungen internationaler Zusammenarbeit in der und durch die UNO im Überblick dar. Es bietet Interpretationen, wie die vielfältigen Arbeitsbereiche der UNO politisch verstanden und beurteilt werden könnten.

This book studies the justice concerns of political actors in important international regimes and international and domestic conflicts and traces their effects on peace and conflict. The book demonstrates that such justice concerns play an ambivalent role for the resolution of conflicts and maintenance of order. While arrangements that actors perceive as just will provide a good basis for peaceful relations, the pursuit of justice can create conflicts or make existing ones more difficult to resolve.

Aceh / Elizabeth Drexler -- Afghanistan / Anatol Lieven -- Basque / Daniele Conversi and Gorka Espiau -- Bosnia-Herzegovina / Dejan Guzina -- Cambodia / Sungyong Lee -- Colombia / Jenny Pearce -- El Salvador / William Stanley -- Liberia / Sukanya Podder -- Mindanao / Ayesah Abubakar and Kamarulzaman Askandar -- Myanmar / Stefano Ruzzo -- Nepal / Elly Harrowell and Varsha Gyawali -- Northern Ireland / Roger Mac Ginty -- Palestine-Israel / Mandy Turner -- Somaliland / Louise Wiuff Moe -- South Africa / Adrian Guelke -- Sudan / Alex de Waal -- Sri Lanka / David Lewis -- Turkey / Bahar Baser and Alpaslan Özerdem.

This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states. The book deepens and broadens current security discourses, encouraging serious consideration of alternatives to the present global security system that functions to advantage state security over human security, a system the contributors perceive to be rooted in the patriarchal nature of the nation state. This second edition will be of interest to academics and students of gender studies, women's studies, international studies, development studies, human rights, security studies, peace studies and peace education.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Expanded peacekeeping training needs - demands posed by the normative and tactical dimensions of today's missions -- Peacekeeping training centres in Africa and their training efforts : the cases of KAIPTC and ACCORD -- African peacekeeping training centres as bridges between doctrine and action -- Peacekeeping training as a form of socialisation -- Training needs, training realities and expectations of training impact

This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of major theories and approaches to the study of peace and conflict across different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Peace and conflict studies (PCS) is one of the major sub-disciplines of international studies (including political sciences and international relations), and has emerged from a need to understand war, related systems and concepts and how to respond to it afterward. PCS has become an important site for inter-disciplinary studies, spanning war studies, security and development; state formation and statebuilding; law and human rights; civil society and political authority; philosophy and religion; the anthropology and history of political order; environmental dimensions; as well as the arts and literature, psychology, and material conditions of peace, peacemaking, peace agreements, the peaceful state, the nature of regional and international cooperation, and organisation, and more. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies will bring together leading scholars from different disciplines to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on peace and conflict studies ever produced

America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America's major wars from a just war perspective. Using moral analysis that is anchored in the just war tradition, the contributors provide careful historical analysis evaluating individual conflicts. Each chapter explores the causes of a particular war, the degree to which the justice of the conflict was a subject of debate at the time, and the extent to which the war measured up to traditional ad bellum and in bello criteria. Where appropriate, contributors offer post bellum considerations, insofar as justice is concerned with helping to offer a better peace and end result than what had existed prior to the conflict. This fascinating exploration offers policy guidance for the use of force in the world today, and will be of keen interest to historians, political scientists, philosophers, and theologians, as well as policy makers and the general reading public.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Pacifism? - Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Dominiek Lootens and Barbara Segaert -- Chapter 2: War, Hostilities, Terrorism: A Pacifist Perspective - Cheyney Ryan -- Chapter 3: Pacifism as Re-appropriated Violence - Amanda Cawston -- Chapter 4: The Pacifisms of the Peace Movement - Martin Ceadel -- Chapter 5: Tolstoy's Pacifism and the Critique of State Violence - Iain Atack -- Chapter 6: Toward a Global Understanding of Pacifism: Hindu, Islamic, and Buddhist Contributions - Meena Sharify-Funk -- Chapter 7: Judaism, Zionism and Pacifism: Past, Present, Future - Mark H. Gelber -- Chapter 8: Emancipation from Violence through Global Law and Institutions: A Post-Deutschian Perspective - by Heikki Patomäki -- Chapter 9: 'Pacifism', and China's 'Peaceful Rise' and 'Peaceful Development' - Bart Dessein -- Chapter 10: Just Peacemaking as a Bridge to Ecumenical and Interfaith Solidarity for Peace - Nathan Funk -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: On the Appeal of Pacifism - Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer and Barbara Segaert

Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they are committed to it but that their enemies do not value it? Why is it that associating peace with other ideals, like justice, friendship, security, and law, does little to distance peace from war? Although political theory has dealt extensively with most major concepts that today define "the political" it has paid relatively scant critical attention to peace, the very concept that is often said to be the major aim and ideal of humanity. In War for Peace, Murad Idris looks at the ways that peace has been treated across the writings of ten thinkers from ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb, to produce an original and striking account of what peace means and how it works. Idris argues that peace is parasitical in that the addition of other ideals into peace, such as law, security, and friendship, reduces it to consensus and actually facilitates war; it is provincial in that its universalized content reflects particularistic desires and fears, constructions of difference, and hierarchies within humanity; and it is polemical, in that its idealization is not only the product of antagonisms, but also enables hostility. War for Peace uncovers the basis of peace's moralities and the political functions of its idealizations, historically and into the present. This bold and ambitious book confronts readers with the impurity of peace as an ideal, and the pressing need to think beyond universal peace.

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether "positive" or "negative." The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined "end"), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.

"This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the 20th century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought, but can be understood as a unique discourse that takes different characteristics according to the point of view of each author and of the specific historical situation."