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Intro -- Language Policy and Conflict Prevention -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Language, Integration of Societies and Conflict Prevention -- 1 Introduction: Shaping Language Policies to Promote Stability -- 2 The HCNM Approach to the Promotion of the State/Official Language in Various OSCE Participating States -- 3 To Speak or Not to Speak: Minority Languages, the Public Administration and the Enforcement of Linguistic Requirements -- 4 Mind Your Own Business: The Oslo Recommendations and the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities in Economic Life -- 5 The Intersection of Language and Religion in the Context of National Minorities -- 6 HCNM Recommendations on the Use of Minority Languages in the Broadcast Media as a Baseline for Context-specific Advice to Participating States -- 7 The HCNM Impact on Minority and State Language Promotion and on the Social Integration of Diverse Societies Through Education: The cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Part 2: Language Rights and Evolving Standards and Practice -- 8 Continued Relevance of an 'Oslo' Language Policy in a Changing World -- 9 'The Borders of My Language Mean the Borders of My World'. Language Rights and Their Evolving Significance for Minority Rights and Integration of Societies -- 10 Language Rights in the Work of the Advisory Committee -- 11 The Right to Display Place Names in Regional or Minority Languages within the Council of Europe Legal Framework -- 12 Protection of Linguistic Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the UN Context -- 13 Language Rights and the Work of the European Union -- 14 'Taking Oslo Online': Minority Language Policy & the Internet -- 15 Language Rights and Duties for New Minorities: Integration through Diversity Governance -- Appendix -- Index

"Systemic Theories of Conflict" published on by Oxford University Press.

Conflict prevention has been the nomenclature of a non-military type of security policy, but that is changing. During the Cold War, the OSCE was a forum for conflict prevention at an interstate level. After the Cold War, OSCE conflict prevention turned to domestic affairs, comparable to NGO activities. This practice tends to be overshadowed by the EU. The EU has turned conflict prevention into an aspect of the ESDP. This practice competes with the way in which NATO includes conflict prevention. By developing conflict prevention beyond the context of the UN Security Council, and by adding a military dimension to it, conflict prevention can easily become an offensive intervention policy serving self-interested power politics, or mixed motives at the least. Moreover, non-military forms of conflict prevention politics are problematic too. They run the risk of burning in a hell of good intentions. Thus, the development of the conflict prevention discourse should be followed with scepticism. © 2006 University of Kent.

Conflict, Violence, Terrorism and their Prevention provides an inter-disciplinary and global perspective on aspects of aggression and violence. It explores the individual, group, and international processes and conditions by which violent conflict occurs. It shows the wide range and diffuse nature of contemporary violence and the need to approach it from many disciplines. The book also examines some multi-faceted solutions and responses to conflict. The optimistic conclusion from this work is