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Armed conflict continued around the world in 2012. Many are captured on the 2013 CHart of Conflict included with this volume, and further details can be found in the IISS Armed Conflict Database. In a section new to The Military Balance this year, the IISS examines the wars in Afghanistan and Syria, analysing the course of both wars from November 2012 to November 2013. Both involve conflict between insurgents and governments, but with varying degrees of external assistance to all warring parties. A short concluding analytical essay compares the role of key military factors in both conflicts, offering some general conclusions about modern insurgency and counter-insurgency. Adapted from the source document.

The war in Lebanon presented a fundamental challenge for U.S. policy in the Middle East, but also an opportunity -- if Washington can transform the fragile cease-fire into a lasting & comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement. Adapted from the source document.

The crises of the post-colonial state in Africa have led to civil wars in various African states. In several of these war affected countries, the state has disintegrated and occasioned myriad adverse consequences, including deaths, injuries, the mass displacement of people, and the collapse of the systems of governance. Against this background, this article examines the methods that have been used to terminate civil wars in Africa, and to set into motion the processes of peacebuilding. The article argues that in order to build durable peace in Africa's post-conflict societies, the post-colonial state needs to be democratically reconstituted.

In this paper we analyse cyberattacks and cyber conflict and the challenges they pose to the field of conflict resolution. State and non-state actors alike are conducting cyberattacks in new and sophisticated ways that result in conflicts which are not readily addressed by conflict resolution approaches. Consequently, these developments in cyberspace take place without much input from conflict resolution scholars and practitioners. We suggest that these developments in cyberspace result in changing relationships between actors, and thus potentially different types of conflict, based around two key problems. First, there is the problem of attribution. Cyberspace is inherently linked with anonymity and attributing a cyberattack with certainty is almost never possible. In addition, it is difficult to distinguish the difference between various types of actors, which include a mixture of states, non-state groups, and individual hackers. ; peer-reviewed

The objective of this article is to describe the Conflict Resolution interventions used throughout the conflict cycle. The article first presents five levels of conflict intensity of the conflict cycle, namely the levels of Stable Peace, Unstable Peace, Conflict, Crisis, and War. Each level of conflict intensity is characterized by analyzing the variables of Galtung's conflict triangle (behavior, attitudes, and goals), actors' perceptions (friend, rival, and enemy), and the dominant strategy of interaction between actors (positive-sum, compromise, zero-sum, and negative-sum). Each level is illustrated with typical events associated with civil wars and wars between states and proposes threshold events of a possible change in the level of conflict intensity. The article then presents a set of Conflict Resolution approaches that can be carried out in each of the conflict intensity levels of the escalation and de escalation periods of the conflict cycle. Conflict Resolution is subdivided between interventions whose main objective is to contain violent conflict, here called Conflict Management, and interventions with a main objective of solving political problems, which can be Conflict Prevention, if they occur in the period of conflict escalation, or Conflict Termination, if they occur in the period of conflict de escalation. In Conflict Management we identify the interventions of: Crisis Management; Unilateral and Joint Internal Management; External Management in the form of Peacemaking or Peace Enforcement, and Traditional Peacekeeping. In Conflict Prevention we identify Structural and Direct Prevention. In Conflict Termination we identify Multidimensional Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Peace Consolidation (associated to Conflict Transformation). Additionally, we present two alternative approaches, Cosmopolitan Peace and Critical Approaches. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

THE STRAIGHTFORWARD SOLUTIONS TO THE NORTHERN IRELAND PROBLEM - A UNITED IRELAND OR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE STATUS QUO, WHETHER BY CONTINUING DIRECT RULE OR SETTING UP A NEW DEVOLVED ADMINISTRATION - ARE BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT ONE OR OTHER OF THE TWO COMMUNITIES CAN BE PERSUADED OR COERCED INTO ABANDONING ITS HISTORIC IDENTITY AND ALLEGIANCE. BUT IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE BOTH COMMUNITIES HAVE SHOWN THEMSELVES TO BE SO RESILIENT IN MAINTAINING THEIR SEPARATE IDENTITIES THAT THE PROBLEM IS SO INTRACTABLE. BOTH IN BRITAIN AND IN IRELAND INCREASING ATTENTION IS NOW BEING PAID TO A FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF BOTH COMMUNITIES CAN BE PRESERVED. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT - A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THE BRITISH AND IRISH GOVERNMENTS IN NOVEMBER 1985 IN AN ATTEMPT TO FORMALIZE IMPLEMENTATION OF AMICABLE GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS.

This article introduces the concept of ethnicity in relation to gendered security problems in conflict and post-conflict settings. Feminist research has established that men and women experience conflict and post-conflict situations differently owing to issues of identity and power. National and gendered identities and women's disadvantageous location within global and local power structures combine to put women at risk, while simultaneously providing little room for them to voice their security problems. Theories on women as female boundary-makers show how ethnicity appears in part to be created, maintained and socialized through male control of gender identities, and how women's fundamental human rights and dignity are often caught up in male power struggles. In post-conflict settings, gender construction appears to be further complicated by both nationalagendas of identity formation and re-formation, which often include an ethnic focus, and the presence of a competing 'fraternity' as aconsequence of the arrival of the international community.

This issue of International Negotiation focuses on coordination in conflict resolution. It includes nine articles that discuss theoretical concerns & practical insights about coordination among organizations involved in various aspects of conflict prevention, conflict resolution & peacebuilding, highlighting the utility of applying negotiation theory to the analysis of their relationships, interactions, & cooperative processes. This article presents a thematic overview of the articles & concludes by outlining areas for further development of theory & practice. Adapted from the source document.

The role of interpreters in conflict situations is of increasing real world importance. There are ethical, cultural, and professional issues that have yet to be explored, and there is a need for specialised training that addresses the specific contexts in which interpreters perform their duties, considering the situated nature of interpreting in these contexts. This volume is structured around interpreter training in different contexts of conflict and post-conflict, from military operations and international tribunals to asylum-seeking and refugee, humanitarian, and human rights missions. Themes covered include risk management and communication, ethics and professional demeanour, language technology and its use, intercultural mediation, training in specific contexts, such as conflict resolution and negotiation, and working with trauma. Chapters are authored by experts from around the world with a range of different profiles: military personnel, scholars, the staff of international organisations, and representatives from refugee and asylum-seeker-assisting institutions. Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios is key reading both for students and scholars researching interpreting in conflict zones and conflict-related scenarios and for practising and trainee interpreters and mediators working for international organisations and the military.