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Looks at the progress which has been made towards securing peace in Cambodia. Considers the problems of refugees, the infestation of land-mines, phantom cease-fires and the difficulties of incorporating the Khmer Rouge into a lasting settlement.

Recent studies in conflict resolution and peace negotiation have moved from macroperspectives and generalized attribute models of culture closer to the actual processes of verbal interaction that constitute the historical moment. An overview of this literature, however, shows that the field lacks concepts and methods to carry this trend into the details of talk. The article demonstrates how work from different fields concerned with language, culture, and their interrelationship provides the leverage to handle case materials in a more sophisticated and useful way.

This book presents a new approach for studying peace beyond the absence of war. As war ends, the varying nature of the peace that ensues has been the object of much debate. Through in-depth case studies, including Cyprus, Cambodia, South Africa, Abkhazia, Transnistria/Russia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Myanmar, the book illustrates how conceptualising 'relational peace' provides a framework that can be applied across cases and actors, different levels of analysis, a variety of geographical contexts and using different temporal perspectives and types of data. This novel framework enables improved empirical studies of peace. The book contributes nuanced understandings of peace in particular settings and demonstrates the multifaceted nature of peaceful relations - what is termed 'relational peace practices' - making important contributions to the field of studying peace beyond the absence of war.

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.

Does peacebuilding in the environmental sector influence perceptions of popular legitimacy of post-conflict authorities? Guided by this question this research plan addresses a gap in the literature on peacebuilding and environmental studies. Only limited research has been conducted on the link between the environment and peacebuilding. Generally, scholars and practitioners assume addressing environmental issues during peacebuilding processes contributes to the success of peace (Conca & Dabelko, 2002; Conca & Wallace, 2009; Ejigu, 2006; Kostić, Krampe, & Swain, 2012; Machlis & Hanson, 2008; Matthew, Barnett, & McDonald, 2009a; Matthew, Brown, & Jensen, 2009b; A. Swain & Krampe, 2011). Yet, findings in the peacebuilding literature show that externally driven peacebuilding often leads to a lack of popular legitimacy of governing authorities and the creation of new substructures of legitimacy, a development that has been termed hybrid or post-liberal peace (Kappler, 2012; Kostić, 2007; MacGinty, 2010; Richmond, 2011). These adverse effects of peacebuilding have been identified and studied in many sectors, but are they similarly present in the environmental sector? Or do environmental peacebuilding activities contribute in fact to more popular legitimacy? This study contributes knowledge and understanding about peacebuilding in the environmental sector and its influence on local perceptions of legitimacy. The focus is specifically on projects of renewable energy production that utilize manageable natural resources (i.e. water and biomass). If and how these project influence popular legitimacy will be assessed through within and cross case comparisons of four case studies in the peacebuilding process of Nepal through data based on fieldwork.

Post-Cold War peacebuilding is increasingly conflated with the smooth functioning of a range of processes associated with democracy, governance, development and securitisation. However, critiques of these approaches tend to focus on their liberal-democratic norms and to ignore their underlying processual logics. This article problematises two facets of process with regard to peacebuilding: its postulation as a basis for peace grounded in everyday human activity and its construction of violence as anti-process. Its goal is to present the critique of process as a means for understanding the complex relationship between international and local actors in the context of peacebuilding, thus enriching the 'liberal peace' debate. Drawing on normative political theory, including that of Arendt and Deleuze and Guattari, the article demonstrates how the problems raised by these two issues can help to explain a range of concerns associated with contemporary peacebuilding and provide starting points for imagining forms of peace that are not so reliant upon processual logics or opposed to those acts which disrupt them, which may in fact be attempts to realise radically different versions of peace. In so doing, it extends and enriches the perspectives offered by existing 'liberal peace' critiques.

IN CASES OF DEEPLY ROOTED, PROTRACTED CONFLICTS, THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COMPETING VALUES, EXPERIENCES, AND POLITICAL DISCOURSES THAT INFORM RESPECTIVE DEFINITIONS OF PEACE CAN BE HUGE. IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CASE, PEACE HAS BEEN ENVISIONED DIFFERENTLY BY JEWS AND PALESTINIANS BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE OSLO ACCORD. THESE DIFFERENT CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF PEACE REFLECT THE TWO COMPETING POLITICAL DISCOURSES THAT HAVE INFORMED JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM: NATIONAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL LIBERATION, RESPECTIVELY. THE OSLO ACCORD DOES NOTHING TO RECONCILE THESE COMPETING DEFINITIONS OF PEACE NOR DOES IT REMEDY THE ASYMMETRIC POWER DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS. INSTEAD, IT PRIMARILY DESCRIBES A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OCCUPIED AND THE OCCUPIER.

This book documents recent and historical events in the theoretically-based practice of peace development. Its diverse collection of essays describes different aspects of applied philosophy in peace action, commonly involving the contributors' continual engagement in the field, while offering support and optimal responses to conflict and violence.