Peacebuilding

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4165-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Preventing violent conflicts and establishing comprehensive lasting peace in some of the world’s most turbulent regions has become the new global imperative. But to be effective, peacebuilding must be a multilateral, not a unilateral process. Even for the world’s sole surviving superpower, promoting and sustaining durable peace requires communication, co-ordination, co-operation, and collaboration between local, national and international actors, nongovernmental as well as governmental.
In this book, Dennis Sandole explores the theory and practice of peacebuilding, discussing the differences and similarities between core aspects of peace processes, namely violent conflict prevention; conflict management; conflict settlement; conflict resolution and conflict transformation. Assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student reader, the volume distinguishes between proactive and reactive peacebuilding as strategies to pre-empt or otherwise respond to global problems, such as identity conflicts, failing/failed states, terrorism, pandemics, poverty, forced migrations, climate change, ecological degradation, and their combined effects. Drawing on a wide range of conflicts such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, South Africa and Macedonia, the book debates the 'lessons learned' from past experiences of reactive as well as proactive peacebuilding, plus the challenges which lie ahead for those striving to bring about sustainable peace, security and stability to war-torn or otherwise fragile regions of the globe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandole, Dennis J D

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi

Prologue 1

1 Peacebuilding and the Global Problematique 7

2 Complex Problem Solving in Violent Conflicts 33

3 Improving the Record 76

4 Peacebuilding and the "Global War on Terror" 105

5 The US and the Future of Peacebuilding 138

Epilogue 182

Notes 187

References 204

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis J. D. Sandole is Professor of Conflict Resolution and International Relations in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.