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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction -- assembling exclusive expertise: knowledge, ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South; Assembling expertise, generating experts; Situating conflict resolution science; Locating the local/Global South; Linking expertise and ignorance; Describing cases/making interventions; Tracing expertise anchored in people, institutions, instruments, and creative expressions; Notes; References; PART I: The experts

This book explores the close interconnection that exists between sociological and philosophical scholarship in relation to peace studies. Through an examination of the thought of nine leading philosophers and sociologists in their historical and geographical context, the author considers notions of nonviolent resistance, pacifism and reverse strike, as well as violence theories of conflict, theories of conflict resolution, the problem of war, and political transitions towards democratization. Engaging with the work of Thoreau, Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, Capitini, Dolci, Bobbio, Galtung, Sharp and Weil, and considering the institutionalisation of peace research, this volume will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, politics and philosophy with interest in peace and security studies, and conflict.

Introduction: Peacebuilding in contemporary Africa / Kenneth Omeje -- The peacebuilding and development debate : is contemporary peacebuilding development in disguise? / Mala Mustapha & Usman A. Tar -- Peacebuilding in micro-level inter-community conflicts in West Africa : examples from Ghana and Nigeria / Afua Boatemaa Yakohene -- Marginalization and violent conflict in the Karamoja region of Uganda / Tony Karbo -- Peacebuilding in micro-level inter-community conflicts : examples from selected countries in southern Africa / Pamela Machakanja and Chupicai Manuel -- Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone one and half decades after the civil war : at what stage does a country cease to be post-conflict? / Ibrahim Bangura -- The task of rebuilding Liberia / T. Debey Sayndee -- Conflict intervention, insecurity and the challenges of peacebuilding in South Sudan / Nicodemus Minde -- Boko Haram insurgency, terrorism and the challenges of peacebuilding in the Lake Chad basin / Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala -- Obstacles to peace and security in North Africa / Ibrahim Bangura and Sampson Lau -- Peacebuilding through peace education in the Horn of Africa : a transformative cosmopolitan perspective / Yonas Adaye Adeto -- Transiting from armed conflict to peace in contemporary Africa : changing tides, research findings and future directions / Kenneth Omeje

Conflict and Conscience is a collection of interviews that introduces readers to 25 graduates of the School for Peace, an non-profit dedicated to building peace among Palestinians and Jews in Israel. Interviewer and editor Nava Sonnenschein is a founding member of the village of Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace), a collaborative venture where an equal number of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis live co-operatively. As part of their mission, Neve Shalom's leaders conducts courses in peacemaking for college students at different Israeli universities. After facilitating these courses for over 25 years, Sonnenschein states that the effort of bringing together Jewish Israelis and Palestinians from both sides of the Green Line - either in Neve Shalom or on the campuses of Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, and other institutions - can be overwhelming. But she and her colleagues press on because of the conversations they facilitate and the long-term changes these conversations introduce to participants' worldviews. "Seeing the transformation undergone by the participants is a re-energizing, amazing moment when something perceptibly shifts for a participant or for an entire group." In the mid-2000s, she began to interview graduates of one or more school for Peace courses, and conducted these interviews through 2015 in order to "look more deeply into the nature of the changes [she] witnessed." She selected the 25 strongest interviews to publish in Conflict and Conscience, and bracketed the text with a scholarly introduction by social psychologist Tamar Saguy and her own concluding interpretive essay. The resulting volume is both a scholarly resource and an inspiration that "lends strength to human rights and peace organizations."

In diesem Buch geht es um den Streit über Kriegsgefahren und die Schuld an Kriegen und Massenmorden, aber auch um die Möglichkeiten gewaltfreier Politik. Thematisiert werden die Konflikte im Südchinesischen Meer, in Syrien und um eine Weltpolitik der USA und Russlands, die Kriege in Kauf nimmt. Der Brexit und die Flüchtlingsfrage stellen eine große Herausforderung für die Europäische Union dar. Bedingungen einer friedlichen Konfliktaustragung zwischen sprachlichen und ethnonationalen Gruppen werden an den Beispielen der Schweiz, Quebecs und Kataloniens erörtert.

This book assesses the UN Peace Operations in Haiti and establishes what lessons should be taken into account for future operations elsewhere. Specifically, the book examines the UN's approaches to security and stability, demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR), police, justice and prison reform, democratisation, and transitional justice and their interdependencies through the seven UN missions in Haiti. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted in Haiti, it identifies strengths and weaknesses of these approaches and focuses on the connections between these different sectors. It places these efforts in the broader Haitian political context, emphasises economic development as a central factor to sustainability, provides a civil society perspective, and discusses the many constraints the UN faced in implementing its mandates. The book also serves as a historical account of UN involvement in Haiti, which comes at a time when the drawdown of the mission has begun. In an environment where the UN is increasingly seeking to conduct security sector reform (SSR) within the context of integrated missions, this book will be a valuable contribution to the debate on intervention, UN peace operations and SSR.

"A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward. Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in the face of such disarray. In this powerful, urgent essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and dangerous misreading of the world. Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan makes clear how the "realist" impulse to recognize our limitations and focus on our failures misunderstands the essential role America has played for decades in keeping the world's worst instability in check. A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it."--

"Explains the conditions under which leaders are willing to talk to their enemies during a war and why they sometimes refuse, using case studies from Vietnam, China, Korea, and India"--

Das Symbol der EU ist der Sternenkreis. Lange Zeit haben wir dieses Motiv im Rahmen der offiziellen Rhetorik der EU als Symbol für die 'Einheit in der Vielfalt' gesehen. Heute müssen wir uns jedoch mit größerem Ernst fragen: Was hält die Sterne noch zusammen und davon ab, auseinanderzufallen? Besitzt Europa ein Leitbild? In Analogie zum 'amerikanischen Traum' entfaltet Aleida Assmann in diesem Buch den 'europäischen Traum' und meint damit vier Lehren, die die Europäer aus der Geschichte gezogen haben. Sie machen das offene Projekt Europa aus. Ob es eine Zukunft hat oder nicht, hängt deshalb nicht zuletzt davon ab, ob diese Lehren weiterhin als eine gemeinsame Grundorientierung anerkannt und umgesetzt werden.

In the international press, East Africa is depicted as a region mired in civil war, child abduction, rebel militias, Muslim-Christian violence, and grinding poverty. Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of northern Uganda has become a symbol for the troubles of contemporary Africa. Seen from within, however, an altogether different reality is visible-one in which local communities and their leaders work together to resolve conflict and rebuild their communities. Little known beyond northern Uganda, The Acholi Religious Leaders' Peace Initiative (ARLPI) is an inspiring example of one such community organization. The story of ARLPI, examined in this book by philosopher David Hoekema, demonstrates just how much can be accomplished by a small group of dedicated community leaders in a situation where a decade of military force and international pressure have had little discernible effect. Drawing on published sources and interviews with organization leaders and LRA survivors, Hoekema illuminates how both the depredations of the LRA and the healing work of ARLPI are rooted in modern East African history. He documents the courageous work of the Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim leaders who constitute the ARLPI to overcome centuries of mistrust and help bring an end to one of the most horrific conflicts in recent history. Their work, he argues, puts philosophical and theological ideas into practice and in so doing sheds new light on how religion relates to politics, how brutal conflicts can be resolved, and how a community can reclaim its future through locally-initiated initiatives against overwhelming obstacles.