Preventing Deadly Conflict

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8692-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: War and Conflict in the Modern World

Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system.

So how does prevention work when it works, and what can be done when tried and tested practices fail? In this book, I. William Zartman offers a clear and authoritative guide to the key challenges of conflict prevention and the norms, processes and methods used to dampen and diffuse inter and intra-state conflict in the contemporary world. Early-stage techniques including ?awareness? ?de-escalation?, ?stalemate?, ?ripening?, and ?resolution?, are explored in full alongside the late or ?crisis? stage techniques of ?interruption?, ?separation? and ?integration?. Prevention, he argues, is a battle that is never won: there is always more work to be done. The search for prevention - necessary but still imperfect - continues into new imperatives, new mechanisms, new agents, and new knowledge, which this book helps discover and apply.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zartman, I William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Fatal Attraction of Prevention
1. The Inevitability and Value of Conflict
2. The Ubiquity of Prevention
3. Norms for Long-term Prevention
4. Mechanisms of Mid-term Prevention
5. Methods of Pre-Crisis Prevention
6. Means of Late (And Earliest) Post-Crisis Prevention
7. Conclusions: The Elusive Quest for Prevention
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

I. William Zartman is Professor Emeritys at John Hopkins University