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Peace Research Foundation
| New Dimensions of Peacekeeping | Report Error | | Author: Daniel Warner | | Publication Date: April 1995 | | Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff | | Description: 'This work brings together the papers presented at a conference on `New Dimensions of Peacekeeping' which was convened at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in March 1994. The papers address the new role of peacekeeping (including peacekeeping and peace enforcement) which is now emerging and also places an emphasis upon the role of the `newcomers' in peacekeeping, specifically Japan and Germany. The collection of papers, by many distinguished scholars in the field, actively discusses both the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations peacekeeping efforts in meeting the increasing demands placed upon it due to the enormous upsurge in ethnic, religious and other local conflicts.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Educators and Community Leaders | Report Error | | Author: Linda Rennie Forcey (Editor), Ian M. Harris (Editor) | | Publication Date: 1999 | | Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing | | Description: 'Relying largely on the work of peace- and conflict-resolution scholars from many disciplines, Peacebuilding for Adolescents presents proactive strategies for educators and community leaders. In order to deter adolescent violence, educators have been responding to increasing levels of school violence by severely punishing aggressive children, and politicians have been clamoring for tougher criminal justice measures to deter youth from crime. The authors in this book argue, instead, for a more humane response by teaching young people to value peace, to learn to manage their own conflicts, and to live more peacefully. They take a broad view that ranges over three strategic levels of analysis-personal, school, and community. They argue for the promotion of a culture of nonviolence in the schools to help create what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the beloved community.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Tom Woodhouse (Editor), Oliver Ramsbotham (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Frank Cass & Co | | Description: 'Conflict resolution and peacekeeping are closely related conceptually, and they were 'inventions' of the same historical period, the mid-1950s. However, it is only in recent years that conflict resolution theorists have turned to the perspectives of conflict theory in an effort to develop more effective practice of peacekeeping.
The purpose of this volume is to consider the contribution that conflict resolution can make in the development of the new concepts and practices of peacekeeping called for by the United Nations peacekeeping forces, as efforts are made to learn from the traumatic and devastating impact of the many civil wars that have erupted in the past decade.
Traditional definitions of peacekeeping have tended to be narrow and have failed in part to address the question of how peacekeeping can be related to the process of peacemaking and peacebuilding. It is only very recently that peacekeeping has been treated with the literature of conflict resolution, which has its own distinctive concepts and assumptions and conflict processes, and which has emerged from a tradition of research over the last thirty years. With only a few exceptions there has been little analysis of peacekeeping in the literature of conflict analysis and conflict resolution, and conversely the literature on peacekeeping rarely refers to peace and conflict theory.
The future of UN peacekeeping will depend on the capability and willingness to reform and strengthen peacekeeping mechanisms, and to clarify its role in conflict resolution. It is hoped that closer cooperation between the academic peace and conflict research community and the practitioners and doctrine writers of peacekeeping will provide a productive coalition in the effort to discern effective conflict management mechanisms suitable for use in future conflicts.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/11/2003 |
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| Peace-Maintenance: The Evolution of International Political Authority | Report Error | | Author: Jarat Chopra, Thomas, Jr. Watson | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Routledge | | Description: 'This text explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. Jarat Chopra, the architect of Peace-Maintenance, outlines the limitations of traditional peacekeeping principles reliant on the increasingly questionable consent of belligerents. He traces the evolution of the political, administrative, legal and judicial ingredients of international authority and draws on his extensive experience of peace operations with the United Nations. He uses many examples to illustrate the context and evolution of Peace-Maintenance, including in-depth studies of Somalia and Western Sahara. This book should be valuable in identifying the necessary ingredients for long term, legitimate and effective peace-maintenance at a time when it is needed most. Chopra's study explores a course of action that is logically indicated by the long evolution of peace keeping in the 20th century and he argues that we can no longer fail to respond to violent crises because we do not know how to.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Peacemaking | Report Error | | Author: Lynn Sandra Kahn | | Publication Date: 1988 | | Publisher: University Press of America | | Description: 'Peacemaking is the activity which transforms the energy of conflict into the energy of cooperative achievement. A peacemaker is a third party consultant who helps people in conflict discover shared solutions where all sides feel like a winner. Peacemaking presents technologies, psychology, theories and application of conflict management activities. The key elements are: face-to-face dialogue, the analysis of conflict and shared solutions, the use of third party facilitators, feedback about group dynamics, clear conference design and systems thinking.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century | Report Error | | Author: Olara A. Otunnu (Editor), Michael W. Doyle (Editor) | | Publication Date: 1998 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing | | Description: 'The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN peace operations-but at the same time, a new opportunity to enhance capacities, review strategies, redefine roles, and reaffirm responsibilities has opened up. Here, a dynamic group of leading diplomats, academics, and journalists combines forces with UN policymakers and leaders including current Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to explore how the international community can improve its practice in negotiating and implementing peace. They look at what works and what doesn't in UN peacemaking and peacekeeping, and then map out alternative futures for UN action in the 21st century.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods & Techniques | Report Error | | Author: I. William Zartman (Editor), J. Lewis Rasmussen (Editor), Richard B. Bilder (Contributor), Eileen Babbitt (Contributor) | | Publication Date: March 1997 | | Publisher: United States Institute of Peace | | Description: 'The methods and techniques of peacemaking--whether it is called conflict resolution, management, or transformation--have become increasingly sophisticated, partly in response to the increased complexity of international conflict today. This volume describes the tools and skills that are currently available and critically assesses their usefulness and limitations. The field's preeminent researchers and practitioners, including a diplomat and an NGO representative, present not only the more traditional approaches to peacemaking--bargaining and negotiation, third-party mediation, and arbitration and adjudication. They also present newer, 'nonofficial' approaches that have attracted considerable attention for their innovativeness--social-psychological approaches, problem-solving workshops, conflict transformation, and training. Written for scholars as well as practitioners in all aspects of peacemaking and foreign policymaking, the chapters in Peacemaking in International Conflict provide cogent analyses and offer practical lessons for a variety of conflict settings, from disarmament and arms-control negotiations to subnational conflicts in the new and emerging states of the post-Cold War era.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Peacemaking in the Middle East | Report Error | | Author: Paul Marantz, Janice Gross Stein (Editor) | | Publication Date: 1985 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield | | Description: 'This book examines the whole problem of peacemaking in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The contributors consider the countries involved, their changing positions, the range of opinion within each country, and the role of the superpowers in the conflict.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Peacemaking: How to Be It, How to Do It: Transforming Anger Through Awareness With a Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee | Report Error | | Author: Thich Nhat Hanh | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: Sounds True; Unabridged edition | | Description: 'Known and loved worldwide for his teachings on mindfulness and compassion, Thich Nhat Hanh was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. On Peacemaking, this beloved Zen master returns to the theme that first brought him to the world’s attention: peace, and how to embody it. Looking deeply into the roots of anger, Thich Nhat Hanh emerges with real solutions to the violence we commit against ourselves and each other. Thich Nhat Hanh uses the philosophy of non-dualism to show that we are not separate, but one with our feelings and the world. He teaches that the awareness of anger – not its suppression – is key to its control. From the keys to transforming anger through meditation to putting kindness into action to heal the wounds between nations, here is Thich Nhat Hanh’s personal testament to the spiritual and practical power of nonviolence, with Peacemaking.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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