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Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of ""water wars,"" shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly important role in rebuilding trust after conflict and in preventing a return to conflict.Featuring nineteen case studies and analyses of experiences from twenty eight countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East, and drawing on the experiences of thirty-five researchers and practitioners from around the

Peace is generally defined as a state of non-belligerency between states. This means that it is defined negatively as the absence of war. So is peace just a pause between two wars? In French, the term is significant: peace is considered a slice of life between two conflicts. Thus, we speak of the early 20th century as the «Belle Époque» and we talk about the «interwar period», which implies the failure of peace. Twenty years after the end of the Great War, another, even more terrible conflict began. At the same time, an inversion of values took place in European minds that along with the horrors of war made it very difficult for any Franco-German reconciliation to take place. We would have to wait for the end of the Second World War and its consequences to speak of peace as a realistic utopia. This volume brings together a number of articles in Portuguese, French and English – on topics such as «thinking peace», intellectuals and peace, federalism and universalism, religiosity and secularism, women and peace, and campaigns and mobility – from many prestigious experts and young researchers. They bring new ways of thinking and interdisciplinary perspectives, and provide an attentive, critical reading of the core subject. This volume proposes to substantiate concepts, projects, movements, speeches, images and representations, and to deepen the knowledge of the key personalities who thought about peace between 1849 and 1939

Foreword / Steven Gatembu Kairu. - Prologue / Georgina T Wood. - Chapter One: Introduction: ADR and Peace-building in Africa / Ernest Uwazie. - Chapter Two: Electoral Disputes in Africa: Causal Analysis and Proposal for ADR Mechanism for Resolution / AA Karim. - Chapter Three: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Nigeria: A Study of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse (LMDC) / Comfort Chinyere Ani. - Chapter Four: The Interplay of Cross Culturalism in Designing a Mediation Model for the Niger Delta Conflict in Nigeria / Joy O Ogaji. - Chapter Five: Online Dispute Resolution in Africa: Present Realities and the Way Forward / Ijeoma Ononogbu. - Chapter Six: African Women's Participation in Peace and Conflict Resolution: An Evaluation of the Nigerian and Burundian Women / Carol Ijeoma Njoku. - Chapter Seven: Civil Society and Conflict Resolution in the Niger Delta of Nigeria / Robert Dibie. - Chapter Eight: Institutionalizing Dispute Resolution Training and Practice: The Way Forward from Educational and Regulatory Perspectives / Saeed Musah-Khaleepha. - Chapter Nine: A Comparative Analysis of ADR Legislations in Africa: Ghana and Uganda / Ernest Uwazie and Daniel Yamshon. - Chapter Ten: Towards Sustainable Peace: A Structural Assessment of the Ghana National Peace Council Act, 2011 (Act 818) / Isaac Olawale Albert. - Chapter Eleven: Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention: Antidote for Prison Congestion and Improvement of Prison Condition in Nigeria / Anne Amuche Obiora. - Epilogue: ADR and Peace Studies in Africa, Fifteen Years Later: Lessons and Future Directions Bearing Witness to the ADR, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Movement in Ghana / Martin A B K Amidu

Examines how the failure of the victors at the end of World War I to create a peace settlement based on reconciliation rather than a consolidation of their own powers led to the instability of the Balkans and the Middle East, which continues to the present day

Part I. - Measuring Post-Conflict Development Success: Theory and Practice: Introduction, Brendan M. Howe. - Security, post-conflict development, and good governance in East Asia, Brendan M. Howe. - The responsibility to protect and Northeast Asia: the case of North Korea, Boris Kondoch. - Part II . - East Asian 'Success' Stories and Caveats: Aid to build governance in a fragile state: foreign assistance to a post-conflict South Korea, Jae-Jung Suh and Jinkyung Kim. - Human security and post-conflict development in Taiwan, Christian Schaeffer. - Post-conflict developments in the Vietnamese context - reform, conflict resolution and regional integration, Ramses Amer. - Part III . - East Asian Obstacle Case Studies and Opportunities: Human security in post-Cold War Cambodia, Sorpong Peou. - Oligarchic rule, ethnocratic tendencies and armed conflict in the Philippines, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. - From authoritarian to democratic models of post-conflict development: the Indonesian experience, Edward Aspinall. - Part IV . - Past Asian Initiatives in the Field of Human Security: Working for human security: JICA's experience, Keiichi Tsunekawa and Ryutaro Murotani. - Korea's development assistance in fragile states: what is at stake?, Woojin Jung. - Human security in building the ASEAN community, Carolina G. Hernandez

"This book analyses the nature of the current strategic changes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af/Pak) region. The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. As the international Afghanistan conferences have demonstrated, the international community - which is a US-led coalition of the willing - will withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. This withdrawal of troops, as well as the offer of economic aid and negotiations to the Taliban, aims to transfer the responsibility of the future of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves and to their regional neighbours. This edited volume analyses the nature of this strategic change in order to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. Bringing together contributions from leading academics in the field, the book is centred around three key questions: what has gone wrong in the past with regard to Afghanistan and what strategic adjustments are needed? Is Pakistan a strategic ally of the West, or has Pakistan become a strategic problem? What are the possible future scenarios and policy options and what does strategic readjustment really mean? This book will be of much interest to students of Central and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and security studies generally"--