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"More than a decade after the Dayton Peace Accords, the question remains whether peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will sustain. Assuming that the economic prosperity plays a crucial role for a successful peacebuilding process, this working paper addresses the potential and the risks of economic development, focusing on three particular aspects: corruption, informal labor and the brain drain phenomenon. Rob Scheid shows that corruption is an endemic problem concerning governance, civil society, and the economy in BiH. He outlines examples of the various forms corruption takes and discusses steps taken to combat this issue, arguing that corruption's detraction from economic development prolongs the peacebuilding process. Julika Bake deals with the phenomenon of illicit labor, which is seen as one of the major obstacles to economic prosperity in BiH. She argues that besides macroeconomic recovery and labor policy, the links between local political elites and informal employers have to be taken into account to successfully create formal employment. Simon Runkel addresses the difficult labor situation of young people and the resulting emigration, particularly of the well educated. In his opinion, reforms in the fields of education as well as private investment are necessary to facilitate the return of emigrants and to benefit from the positive long-term effect of the so-called brain drain phenomenon. All three sections of this working paper hold that the peacebuilding process would benefit to a great extent from the strengthening of formal economic relations, the weakening of links between the economic and political spheres, especially on a local level, as well as from the creation of job opportunities. Although economic prosperity and sustainable development often seem beneficial they do not appear to be a primary concern in peacebuilding. This paper shows that economic aspects are crucial to the question of whether peace will stay and last in Bosnia and Herzegovina." (author's abstract)

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Wer an die Geschichte Österreichs nach 1945 denkt, verbindet damit nicht unbedingt Kriegswaffenproduktion, Waffenexporte und illegalen, aber politisch gedeckten Waffenhandel. Gerade in der Ära des sozialdemokratischen Bundeskanzlers Bruno Kreisky galt die Alpenrepublik als Motor einer ausgleichenden Friedenspolitik zwischen den Machtblöcken. Dass das aber nur die halbe Wahrheit ist, unterstreicht Thomas Riegler mit der eindringlichen Schilderung eines Skandals, der Österreichs Politik in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert hat. Neue Quellen geben den Blick frei auf ein kompliziertes Geflecht aus politischen Interessen, wirtschaftlichen Problemen und sozialpolitischen Handlungszwängen, das für die Entscheidungsträger letztlich wichtiger war als Recht, Gesetz und Moral.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies -- Part I - Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Part II - Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Part III - Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace -- Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Chapter 1: Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum -- Introduction -- On Homer: The Shields of Peace -- The Legal Orthopedia of Peace -- Conclusion: Peace the Vernacular of the Humanum -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human Imagination -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Animate Peace -- 3. Living with Animals -- 4. Aesthetic Imagination -- 5. Conclusions: Imagining Conviviality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Savitrı -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Chapter 6: Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary -- Transforming Islamic Liberation Theology into a Liberation Theodicy for a Decentred World -- Against Dualism: From Philosophies of Despair to a Philosophy of Hope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict -- Introduction -- From Aquinas to Kant to Lanza del Vasto -- Jus ad bellum -- The Ultimate Aim of War (Conflict): A More Perfect Peace (Than before the War) -- The Authority of the Prince: The Declaration of War -- A Just Cause -- A Right Intention