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| A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into The Eye Of The Storm | Report Error | | Author: John Paul Lederach (Editor), Janice Moomaw Jenner (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: Jossey-Bass | | Description: 'This much-needed handbook offers conflict resolution professionals working (or planning to work) in foreign countries a critical, step-by-step guide for dealing with difficult and potentially dangerous disputes in other nations. The editors, John Paul Lederach and Janice Moomaw Jenner, have gathered a stellar panel of seasoned experts who illustrate how to approach international peacebuilding with effective actions and approaches gained through experience that will contribute ultimately to a more positive outcome. Based on the experience of the contributors— work as global peace brokers, the book includes a wide array of guidelines, pragmatic approaches, and models of constructive, culturally appropriate ways to respond to conflict.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Across the Divide: Peacemaking in a Time of Cold War | Report Error | | Author: Stephen H. Thiermann | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: Sessions of York | | Description: ''Across the Divide' explores peacemaking efforts during the Cold War. Based on the author's experiences in Europe, China, North Korea and the United Nations, it takes readers into the world of international diplomacy and the unfolding of modern history during a time of tension. Initiating and strengthening communications across differences give lessons for local conflict resolution.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Approaches to Peacebuilding | Report Error | | Author: Ho-Won Jeong (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | | Description: 'Ho-Won Jeong and a cast of experts explore the ways in which the dynamics of post-conflict situations can be transformed to sustainable peace. Contributors focus on designs and models of peacebuilding, functions of peacekeeping, capacity building through negotiations, reconciliation, the role of gender in social reconstruction, and policy coordination among different components of peacebuilding. The analysis illustrates past and current experiences of peacebuilding and suggests conceptual and policy approaches that can overcome the weaknesses of existing strategies.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Arms at Rest: Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in American History | Report Error | | Author: Joan R. Challinor (Author), Robert L. Beisner (Author) | | Publication Date: 1987 | | Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group | | Description: 'This outstanding collection of essays is the product of a symposium on peacemaking and peacekeeping, sponsored by the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris. The original papers included in this volume were written by leading scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada to assess themes related to the prerequisites and consequences of peace. The emphasis is on peaceful outcomes and the preservation of peace, rather than the causes of war, and the writings reflect a penetrating awareness of the many facets of peacemaking and peacekeeping. Included are thought-provoking discussions on the impact of war and promise of peace on women, the American perception of peace as an opportunity for profit and as a private political issue, the avoidance of war, and the possible obsolescence of war in our own era.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Criminal Justice: A Peacemaking Perspective | Report Error | | Author: John R. Fuller (Author) | | Publication Date: 1997 | | Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon | | Description: 'How does the criminal justice system operate? What are the important issues? The controversial ones? Get answers to these and other valuable questions with this introduction to the topic. This book is not just a compilation of criminal justice facts, but is a provocative and stimulating look at the criminals justice system. It presents a critical examination of the criminal justice system by comparing and contrasting the war on crime perspective with a peacemaking perspective.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict | Report Error | | Author: William Shawcross | | Publication Date: March 2000 | | Publisher: Simon & Schuster | | Description: 'Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace. The end of the Cold War was followed by a decade of regional and ethnic wars, massacres and forced exiles, and by constant calls for America to lead the international community as chief peace-keeper. The efforts of that community -- identified with the United Nations but often dominated by the world's wealthy nations -- have had mixed results. In Africa, the West is accused of indifference or too little, too late. In Cambodia, the UN presides over free elections, but the results are overridden. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein continues to defy the UN, and in Bosnia and Kosovo, the West acts hesitantly after terrible slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Shawcross, a veteran of many war zones, has had broad access to global policymakers, including UN secretary general Kofi Annan, high American diplomats, peacekeepers and humanitarian-aid professionals. He has traveled with them to some of the world's most horrifying killing fields. Deliver Us from Evil is his stark, on-the-ground report on the many crises faced by the international community and its servants as they struggle to respond around the world. He brings home the price many have paid attempting to restore peace and help alleviate terrible suffering. He illuminates the risks we face in a complex and dangerous world. Some critics have concluded that some interventions may prolong conflict and create further casualties. The lesson we learn from ruthless and vengeful warlords the world over is that goodwill without strength can make things worse. Shawcross argues that recent interventions -- in Kosovo and East Timor, for example -- provide reason for concern as well as hope. Still, the unmistakable message of the past decade is that we cannot intervene everywhere, that not every wrong can be righted merely because the international community desires it, or because we wish to remove images of suffering from our television screens. Nor can we necessarily rebuild failed states in our image. When we intervene, we must be certain of our objectives, sure of popular support and willing to expend the necessary resources -- even lives. If our interventions are to be effective and humane, they must last for more than the fifteen minutes of attention that the media accord to each succeeding crisis.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding | Report Error | | Author: Cynthia Sampson (Editor), John Paul Lederach (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand | | Description: 'In recent years, religion- and culture-based approaches to conflict resolution have been implemented at both the local and regional level. The U.S. State Department and other governmental agencies now recognize that religious leaders, transnational religious movements, and faith-based NGOs are central players in the post-Cold War era of ethnic and religious conflict.
This new collection of essays chronicles, analyzes, and evaluates the Mennonite contribution to the new cultural paradigm in conflict resolution and peacebuilding theory and practice. Contributors to this volume provide a thorough account of Mennonite initiatives to prevent, resolve, or transform conflict in a variety of settings, including South Africa, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Nicaragua, Somalia, Liberia, Haiti, and Hebron. They also look at Mennonite peacebuilding, comparing it to Quaker and secular techniques, exploring its relationship with Mennonite religious values, and assessing its strengths and weaknesses.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Going Home: Building Peace in El Salvador: The Story of Repatriation | Report Error | | Author: Vic Compher, Betsy Morgan (Editor), Laura Jackson | | Publication Date: December 1991 | | Publisher: Anchor | | Description: 'Supported by 84 stirring photographs, Going Home tells the story of campesinos chased off of their lands in the early 1980s by an army not satisfied to attack armed opposition to their regime, but determined to annihilate the unarmed opposition as well. It tells how 24,000 of them fled to Honduras and lived for ten long years in overcrowded camps along the border. The book also describes how they kept their dream of returning home alive and now, tiring of waiting for the war in El Salvador to cease, decided to return to their homelands in order to wage peace. Most of all, Going Home tells how the repopulated villages in El Salvador are providing a model of what a new El Salvador might look like--cooperative, productive, and concerned about the basic needs of all citizens.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding | Report Error | | Author: David R. Smock (Editor), Princeton N. Lyman | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: United States Institute of Peace | | Description: 'As the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contributors to this volume have discovered firsthand, religion is better at fostering peace than at fueling war. Rarely, conclude the authors, is religion the principal cause of international conflict, even though some adversaries may argue differently. But religion can often be invaluable in promoting understanding and reconciliation—and the need to exploit that potential has never been greater.
Drawing on their extensive experience in organizing interaction and cooperation across religious boundaries in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Northern Ireland, and the Balkans, the contributors explore the formidable potential of interfaith dialogue. The first part of the volume analyzes the concept and its varied application; the second focuses on its practice in specific zones of conflict; and the third assesses the experiences and approaches of particular organizations.
When organized creatively, interfaith dialogue can nurture deep engagement at all levels of the religious hierarchy, including the community level. It draws strength from the peacemaking traditions shared by many faiths and from the power of religious ritual and symbolism. Yet, as the authors also make plain, it also has its limitations and carries great risks.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Making Peace | Report Error | | Author: George J. Mitchell | | Publication Date: January 2001 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Description: 'Former United States senator George Mitchell tells the inside story of how he maneuvered the warring factions of Northern Ireland into signing the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998. This was no small task, requiring him to bring together Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, Catholic moderate John Hume, Protestant politico David Trimble, unionist Ian Paisley, Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, and British prime minister Tony Blair. Mitchell's prose is a model of clarity--a surprising quality coming from the pen of a politician, especially one of the most partisan Senate majority leaders of all time. There is plenty of detail about the negotiations and all of their turns, but never so much as to become tedious. Along the way, Mitchell offers interesting asides on achieving success in politics and diplomacy: 'As majority leader of the United States Senate, I had learned that when you've got the votes, you vote. Delay can only hurt.' It's too soon to know the ultimate outcome of Mitchell's labors, but initial signs are hopeful, suggesting that this memoir might have real staying power.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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