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This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agreements subsequently unravel, ushering in renewed conflict. In response, important international actors have become increasingly involved in conflict mediation, peacekeeping, and post-conflict reconstruction around the globe. Policymakers and scholars alike have identified spoilers-violent actors who often rise up and attempt to challenge or derail the peace process-as one of the greatest threats to peace. Using a mixed-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of a newly created, global dataset of spoiling, Reiter demonstrates that this type of violence occurs in predictable circumstances and only represents a threat to peace under specific conditions. The book also shows that spoiling often serves to bring agreement flaws and implementation failures to light and in turn forces actors to recommit to an accord, thereby strengthening peace in the long term. Andrew G. Reiter is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. He is the coauthor of Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy(2010) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the topics of conflict resolution, post-conflict peacebuilding, and transitional justice.

These are the conference proceedings for the International Conference on Conflict Management and Conflict Prevention: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from the Western Balkans which was held in Stock holm 8-9 October 2003. The conference was organised by the Folke Bernadotte Academy in co-operation with the Swedish Ministry fro Foreign Affairs and the Italian EU Presidency. The specific purpose was to identify lessons from three phases in the management of the conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia-(1) the pre-agreement, shuttle-diplomacy phase, (2) the initial peace-implementation phase and (3) the present, mature implementation phase. The main focus was on these models, lessons and practices that could be universally applicable. The conference brought together key individuals with experience from negotiating and implementing the agreements that ended these violent conflicts, as well as government representatives from the region and renowned academics. The conference was attended by representatives of EU and OSCE member states, international organisations, research institutions and non-governmental organisations active in the region. These conference proceedings make the presentations and insights available to a larger audience. (Folke Bernadotte Academy)

Diese Historiographie der Yoruba Rechtskultur ist die Erste ihrer Art. Die Verankerung der Yoruba-Kulturgeschichte in der Literatur als auch die Praxis der Rechtsprechung spiegeln die Bandbreite des Yoruba-Rechts wider. Das Werk orientiert sich am modernen wissenschaftlichen Standard und benennt Persönlichkeiten der Rechtsvertretung. Es richtet sich besonders an Studierende der Ethnologie, Ethnosoziologie und Rechtswissenschaften. (DÜI-Gbd)

Conflict, war, and peace : a bird's eye view -- Peace : the goal and the way -- Peacemaking as realpolitik, conflict resolution, and oxymoron -- Beyond mediation : towards more holistic approaches to peace-building and peace actor empowerment -- 11 September 2001 : diagnosis, prognosis, therapy -- Our war culture's defining parameters -- The state/nation dialectic -- Beyond security : new approaches, new perspectives, new actors -- Crafting peace : on the psychology of the Transcend approach -- Transcend : 45 years, 45 conflicts -- Conflicts : 45 perspectives