Suchergebnisse

The centrality of war in history -- Destruction -- Masculinity and the warrior -- Patriotism -- Hatred -- Religion -- Pacifism -- Women and war -- Existential meaning -- The challenge to education

Part I. Understanding Africa's democratization, elections, and conflicts -- 1. Dreams and nightmares: democratization, elections, and conflicts in Africa / Chux Ibekwe and Akanmu G. Adebayo -- 2. Security in post-civil war democratic transitions in Africa / Abiodun Alao and Mike Adeyeye -- 3. Traumatics: the representation of trauma in Yvonne Vera's Without a name / Oumar Cherif Diop -- Part II. Domestic and international issues and actors -- 4. Democratization and post-election conflicts in Nigeria since independence: a historical reconsideration / Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina -- 5. Incumbency as a factor: appropriation of state security resources and electoral governance in Nigeria / 'Lai Olurode -- 6. Religion and political activism in Egypt / Samy Gerges -- 7. Democratization in Senegal: the failure of the 'Sopi' revolution / Haluk B. Bingol and Richard Vengroff -- 8. The involution of democracy in Lusophone West Africa / Brandon D. Lundy -- 9. Conflict analysis of the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya / Mara J. Roberts -- 10. The French press and position on post-election crisis in Côte d'Ivoire / Edoh Agbehonou -- 11. United States foreign policy responses to Africa's transition conflicts / Andrew Ewoh -- Part III. Conflict resolution options -- 12. Post-election conflict resolution in Africa: lessons from African peace paradigms / Abdul Karim Bangura -- 13. An African model? Conflict management in Ghana's 2008 presidential elections / Joseph Kingsley Adjei -- 14. Lessons from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for managing Africa's conflicts / Edward L. Mienie -- 15. Could forgiveness and amnesty be a panacea to Kenya's post-election conflict era? / Joseph W. Nasongo, Lydiah L. M. Wamocha and Judith S. K. Achoka -- 16. Establishing electoral conflict management panels: a case study of South Africa / Ilona Tip -- 17. Post-electoral conflict in la Côte d'Ivoire: road map to peace / Sarah O. Danso

"Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiatives. The book looks at violent and protracted struggles in which local people have sought to make their own peace with local combatants in a variety of ways, and how such initiatives have affected and have been affected by national level strategies. Chapters on theories of local and national peacemaking are combined with chapters on recent efforts to carry out such processes in warn torn societies such as Africa, Asia, and South America, with essays contributed by experts who were actually actively involved in the peacemaking process. With its unique focus on the interaction of peacemaking at local and national levels, the book will fill a gap in the literature. It will be of interest to students and researchers in such fields as peace studies, conflict resolution, international relations, postwar recovery and development." -- Publisher's website

Particularly in the context of internal conflicts, international law is frequently unable to create and sustain frameworks for peace in Africa. In Peacebuilding in the African Union, Abou Jeng explores the factors which have prevented such steps forward in the interaction between the international legal order and postcolonial Africa. In the first work of its kind, Jeng considers whether these limitations necessitate recasting the existing conceptual structure and whether the Constitutive Act of the African Union provides exactly this opportunity through its integrated peace and security framework. Through the case studies of Burundi and Somalia, Jeng examines the structures and philosophy of the African Union and assesses the capacity of its practices in peacemaking. In so doing, this book will be of great practical value to scholars and legal practitioners alike.

Der Band zeigt die (post-)jugoslawischen Anti-Kriegs-Bewegungen als einen wichtigen, aber bisher vernachlässigten Aspekt des komplexen Prozesses des Zerfalls von Jugoslawien. Mit explizit transnationalem Anspruch, analysiert der Band die Relevanz verschiedener Formen ziviler Organisation im früheren Jugoslawien im Hinblick auf das Anti-Kriegs-Engagement, das sich vor, während und nach den Kriegen entfaltete

Cover; The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Table of cases; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Background and context; 1: Introduction and overview; The main research question; Scope of analysis; Treaty law as the relevant basis of human rights obligations; UN-mandated peace operations: some terminology; Preparing the stage; Whose obligations towards whom?; The obligations of states; Military forces as the relevant state agents; Civilians as the relevant rights-holders.

Marc Sangnier's war, 1914-1919 -- Demobilization and politics, 1919-1921 -- "The traitor in Berlin" : Paris, Germany and Austria, 1921-22 -- From pragmatist to dove : Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 1923 -- Pacem in terris : politics, theology and cultural demobilization, 1924-25 -- Bierville and the Liturgy of Peace, 1926 -- Crusade of Youth, 1927-32 -- Marc Sangnier and the pacifist conundrum, 1932-45 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: International Democratic Peace Congresses, 1921-32