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Attaining durable peace (DP) after a civil war has proven to be a major challenge, as many negotiated agreements lapse into violence. How can negotiations to terminate civil wars be conducted and peace agreements formulated to contribute to lasting peace? This question is addressed in this study with a novel data set. Focusing on justice, we assess relationships between process (procedural justice [PJ]) and outcome (distributive justice [DJ]) justice on the one hand and stable agreements (SA) and DP on the other. Analyses of fifty peace agreements, which were reached from 1957 to 2008, showed a path from PJ to DJ to SA to DP: The justice variables were instrumental in enhancing both short- and long-term peace. These variables had a stronger impact on DP than a variety of contextual- and case-related factors. The empirical link between justice and peace has implications for the way that peace negotiations are structured.

There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to war before 1945, and then examines how public opposition to nuclear weapons and testing grew in the 1950s and early 1960s. Later chapters cover the major ressurgence of nuclear disarmament campaigns in the 1980s. The book also looks at how peace protest has spread from its origins in North America and

The analytical and conceptual framework -- Diasporas in international conflict / Hazel Smith -- A neglected relationship: diasporas and conflict resolution / Jacob Bercovitch -- Gender, diasporas and post--cold war conflict / Nadje S. Al-Ali -- The case studies -- The Jewish diaspora and the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict / Gabriel Sheffer -- The Palestinian diaspora / Mohammed A. Bamyeh -- The Armenian diaspora and the Karabagh conflict since 1988 / Khachig Tölölyan -- A reluctant diaspora? the case of Colombia / Virginia M. Bouvier -- The Cuban diaspora / Jean Grugel and Henry Kippin -- The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora: sustaining conflict and pushing for peace / C. Christine Fair -- Kurdish interventions in the Iraq war / Denise Natali -- The mobilized Croatian diaspora: its role in homeland politics and war / Zlatko Skrbis -- African diasporas and post-conflict reconstruction: an Eritrean case study / Khalid Koser -- Political remittance: Cambodian diasporas in conflict and post conflict / Khatharya Um

The paper investigates some major steps for achieving peace through a better knowledge of ourselves and of our neighbors. For a positive dialogue with people of other cultures and civilizations, we have to start listening to each other, never speak about past misdeeds, respect others' opinions, tolerate differences without contrasting values unnecessarily. This leads to a better understanding of others, for it is very important to understand cultures without stereotypical misuses of history, and we need attitudes toward real reconciliation through a forgiveness not disconnected from truth and justice. Adapted from the source document.