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Part I. The Author -- Chapter 1. My Journey: From the Countryside to the World -- Chapter 2. Comprehensive Bibliography -- Part II. Selection of Core Articles -- part III. A Small States and Finnish Foreign Policy -- chapter 3. On the Definition and Measurement of Small Power Status -- chapter 4. Adaptation of a Small Power to International Tensions: The Case of Finland -- part IV. The Arms Race and Warfare -- chapter 5. Domestic Crises and International Wars -- chapter 6. Capitalism, War, and Peace: Virtuous or Vicious Cycles -- chapter 7. Economy, Power, and the Arms Race -- chapter 8. Economic Cycles, Power Transitions, Political Management, and Wars between Major Powers -- chapter 9. Military Alliances, Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones -- part V. Peace and Conflict Research -- chapter 10. Peace Research between Idealism and Realism -- chapter 11. To Settle or to Transform: Perspectives on the Resolution of National and International Conflicts -- chapter 12. Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Concepts and Issues -- chapter 13. Stable Peace through Security Communities? Steps towards Theory-Building -- part VI. International Security -- Chapter 14. International Stability and Risky States. The Enforcement of Norms -- Chapter 15. Multilateral Security: Cooperative or Collective -- Chapter 16. A Metaphor and an Incipient Doctrine -- Part VII. Globalization, Geopolitics and Global Governance -- Chapter 17. Norms, Compliance and Enforcement of Global Governance -- Chapter 18. Sovereignty, Globalization, and Transnational Social Movements -- Chapter 19. World Economy and Geopolitics: The Case of Brazil -- Part VIII. Regionalism and International Structure -- Chapter 20. Regional Conflict. An Intractable Problem of International Relations -- Chapter 21. Regionalism: Old and New -- Chapter 22. Reforming World Order: Multi- and Plurilateral Approaches -- Index. .

"In this era of misinformation, disinformation and fake news, international organizations have an increasingly important role to play as generators, custodians and disseminators of knowledge. Dalmer shows how the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is uniquely situated to make a positive global contribution in this regard. She illustrates in well-researched detail exactly how international bureaucracies become 'knowledge actors' and presents the UNEP as an open system that is crucial to the development of environmental peacebuilding. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in UN knowledge and how this kind of knowledge may help us all save the planet." — Nanette Archer Svenson, Centro de Investigación Educativa (CIEDU), República de Panamá, USA "Conceiving of international bureaucracies as actors in their own right and drawing from organizational theory and international relations literature, Dalmer illustrates their role as producers of new knowledge. With a focus on UNEP and the different environments from which the organization has obtained new insights regarding environmental peacebuilding, the book not only makes a timely contribution, but readers interested in international institutions and environmental studies will find it of great value." — Jutta M. Joachim, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands By analyzing the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP's) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter on the world stage. Portraying UNEP as an open system, it explores how a growing understanding within the Programme of how environmental degradation shapes insecurities and vice versa has motivated its work on peacebuilding. The theoretical part of this book addresses knowledge, open systems, and knowledge creation. It then presents a historical discussion of UNEP's development in an open system context. Finally, it investigates how knowledge emergence on the linkage between the environment, conflicts, and insecurities influenced UNEP's interests and its work on environmental peacebuilding. Natalia Dalmer is a researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. She works on international bureaucracies, knowledge, and environmental politics.

This book analyses the European Union's (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EU's role in international conflict management. Peacebuilding carried out through CSDP instruments has become central to the self-conception of the EU as an actor in international conflict management. EU missions and operations have, for the most part, been deployed to promote peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict situations, in particular through capacity-building, reforms and rebuilding of state structures. This book focuses explicitly on the peacebuilding dimension of the CSDP while exploring why and how the EU has adopted peacebuilding in its CSDP actions as a norm and a practice. It analyses how peacebuilding in EU missions is conceptualised, designed, governed and implemented. The book examines the extent to which EU missions and operations reflect a normative and practical commitment of the EU to peacebuilding – that is to say, the extent to which CSDP instruments have been shaped by international peacebuilding norms and EU foreign policy. Drawing on empirical insights from decision- and policymaking processes in Brussels as well as from missions in Mali and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book offers critical perspectives on the EU's role as an international peacebuilding actor. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, peace and conflict studies, security studies and international relations.

UN Peace Operations: Evolution of Doctrine, Practice and Integration of Human Rights Issues examines the UN Charter and other associated documents that laid the foundations for peace operations, discussing the evolution of peacekeeping doctrine in the pre- and post-Cold War years. It reviews the incorporation of new thematic areas in peace operations and studies the human rights components in them. The book examines UN's response to global peace and security issues in the last 70 years and discusses the national, regional and global contexts in which the peace operations were deployed. Operations of importance are analysed by providing background to the conflicts and discussing the challenges faced. The book includes insights from the author's first-hand experiences in Timor-Leste (East Timor), Libya and Sudan and offers policy recommendations. It would be of interest to scholars of politics, international relations, law, sociology, modern history and, especially, peace and conflict studies.

1. Understanding Ripeness: Making and Using Hurting Stalemates -- 2. Cultivating Peace: A Practitioner's View of Deadly Conflict -- 3. Conflict Analysis: A System's Approach -- 4. The United Nations and Peacemaking -- 5. Women's Participating in Peace Processes -- 6. Indigenous Approaches to Peacemaking -- 7. Peacemaking Referendums: Advantages and Challenges for Peace Processes -- 8. Refugees, Peacemaking and Durable Solutions to Displacement -- 9. Time, Sequencing and Peace Processes -- 10. Mediation and Ending of Conflicts -- 11. Diffusion vs. Coherence: The Competitive Environment of Multiparty Mediation -- 12. Inclusivity in Peace Processes: Civil Society and Armed Groups -- 13. Negotiating Peace in the Shadows -- 14. Violence and Peace Processes -- 15. Peacemaking and Election Violence -- 16. Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants -- 17. Security Sector Reforms -- 18. Peace Processes and their Agreements -- 19. Power Sharing after Civil Wars: Matching Problems to Solutions -- 20. Peace Accords and Human Rights -- 21. The Post-Conflict Constitution as a Peace Agreement -- 22. Transitional Justice and Peacemaking/Peacebuilding -- 23. Peace Education as a Peacemaking Tool in Conflict Zones -- 24. Post Accord Violence. 26. Everyday Economic Experiences and Peace Processes.

1. Introduction: The Pursuit of "Integration" and "Robustness" in Japan's Peacekeeping Policy -- 2.The Historical Background to Japan's Peacekeeping Policy from the Early Postwar Era to the Establishment of the PKO Act 1945–1992 -- 3. The Evolution of Japan's Peacekeeping Policy 1992–2012 -- 4. Recent Developments in Japan's International Peace Cooperation Under the Second Abe Government 2012–2020 -- 5. Cambodia: Japan's First UNPKO Contribution -- 6. East Timor: Adapting to "Integration" and Responding to "Robustness" -- 7. Haiti: The Development of "Seamless" Assistance from Disaster Relief to UNPKOs -- 8. South Sudan: The SDF and "Protection of Civilians" -- 9. Conclusion: Japan's Search for a New Direction in Peacekeeping.

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as human rights, peacebuilding and development). Chapters intervene at the cutting edge of contemporary transitional justice research, addressing key theoretical and empirical questions, and covering critical, international, interdisciplinary, theoretical and practice-oriented content. In particular, the notion of transformative justice is discussed in light of the emerging scholarship defining and applying this concept as either an approach within or an alternative to transitional justice. The book considers the extent to which transformative justice as a concept adds value to scholarship on transitional justice and related areas and asks what the future might hold for this area as a field - or non-field. A timely intervention, Beyond Transitional Justice is ideal reading for scholars and students of in the fields of human rights, peace and conflict studies, international law, critical legal theory, development studies, criminology, and victimology.

"In this book, a wide array of scholars explore the challenges presented in the current age to conventional understandings of what is required for peace and provide insights that are both practical and constructive to a world in urgent need of conceiving new ways forward"--

In 2011, South Sudan was welcomed into the United Nations as the world's newest nation. Celebrations on the ground reflected palpable relief after more than 20 years of violent struggle. With unprecedented goodwill and optimism, the UN deployed 7,000 soldiers and another 2,000 police and civilian peacekeepers to the country to support its transition to independence. However, the mission failed and within less than three years South Sudan was plunged into a catastrophic civil war. Using firsthand accounts from senior UN officials and referencing hitherto unseen UN documents, this book explores the role of the peacekeeping mission in that failure. It challenges the resignation with which many in academia and the media greeted the underperformance of the peacekeepers. It suggests that, even while under-resourced, they could have done much more to prevent bloodshed in the new country and protected civilians from the chaos of the first years of the conflict. The UN has thus far avoided a thorough and public examination of its actions in South Sudan. It has avoided accountability and instead rewarded failed decision-makers. This book is an attempt to re-assess the legacy of that mission and to detail how its many mistakes can and should be avoided in the future.

Why are certain regions of the world mired in conflict? And how did some regions in Eurasia emerge from the Cold War as peaceful and resilient? Why do conflicts ignite in Bosnia, Donbas, and Damascus—once on the peripheries of mighty empires—yet other postimperial peripheries like the Baltics or Central Europe enjoy quiet stability? Anna Ohanyan argues for the salience of the neighborhood effect: the complex regional connectivity among ethnic-religious communities that can form resilient regions. In an account of Eurasian regional formation that stretches back long before the nation-state, Ohanyan refutes the notion that stable regions are the luxury of prosperous, stable, democratic states. She examines case studies from regions once on the fringes of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires to find the often-overlooked patterns of bonding and bridging, or clustering and isolation of political power and social resources, that are associated with regional resilience or fracture in those regions today. With comparative examples from Latin America and Africa, The Neighborhood Effect offers a new explanation for the conflicts we are likely to see emerge as the unipolar US-led order dissolves, making the fractures in regional neighborhoods painfully evident. And it points the way to the future of peacebuilding: making space for the smaller links and connections that comprise a stable neighborhood

Chapter One: Structural Barriers to Grassroots Women Peace Builders -- Chapter Two: Gender-Based Othering and The Threat of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- Chapter Three: Motherhood and Faith Identities: Legitimacy or Moral Authority in Peacebuilding -- Chapter Four: Rituals of Healing and Reconciliation -- Chapter Five: Spiritual Practices of Sharing -- Chapter Six: Women's Security and Protection -- Chapter Seven: Women's Narratives of Gender-Transformative Peace.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction establishes the study of peace processes as part of the mainstream of sociology, a position consistent with the new moral re-enchantment of the social sciences. It advances a sociological view of peace that goes beyond vague notions of reconciliation, to constitute the restoration of moral sensibility, from which flows social solidarity, sociability and social justice. These concepts form the basis for a moral framework outlining what peace means sociologically. Key Features: Establishing the study of peace and peace processes within the core of the sociological imagination A sociological approach to post-conflict emotions, compromise, everyday life peacebuilding, and personal trauma An innovative analysis that highlights recent developments and key areas of interest for researchers Invigorating and timely, this will be a critical read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of peace studies, the sociology of conflict, and the sociology of war and violence. It will also appeal to higher level students and researchers in these areas.

Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not surprising that scholars disagree as to whether power sharing actually reduces conflict. Based on systematic data and innovative methods, this book comes to a mostly positive conclusion by focusing on practices rather than merely formal institutions, studying power sharing's preventive effect, analyzing how power sharing is invoked in anticipation of conflict, and by showing that territorial power sharing can be effective if combined with inclusion at the center. The authors' findings demonstrate that power sharing is usually the best option to reduce and prevent civil conflict in divided states.