Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation: When the Wars End

ISBN-13: 9781844721160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 354 str.

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This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections:

• the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict
• the impact of conflict on women and children
• reconstruction and past human rights violations
• disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, post-war reconstruction and the building of a capable state and the role of the international community in the peace process.

The chapters offer a detailed and succinct exposition of the challenges facing post conflict societies by articulating the vision of a new society. With a foreword by Francis Deng, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons, the authors discuss the issues in the context of possible solutions and lessons learnt in the field. This new book is a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers and students in the fields of conflict resolution, security studies, law and development.

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1. Introduction  Section A: The Social, Political, and Economic Dimensions of Conflict  2. Arms Trafficking and the Local Political Economy of Conflict  3. HIV/AIDS: Conflict as a Security  4. Oil, Conflict, and Corruption  5. Women and Children as Displaced Persons  Section B: Impact of Conflict on Women and Children  6. The Impact of Civil War on Women and Children  7. Gender Perspectives in Peacekeeping Operations  8. Child Soldiers and Conflict  9. Enhancing the Participation of Women in Post-Conflict Elections  Section C: Reconstruction and Past Human Rights Violations: Healing the Nation  10. Truth Commissions: Amnesty or Prosecution?  11. Justice for Whom? Assessing Hybrid Approaches to Accountability in Sierra Leone  12. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Transitional Justice Processes: Evidence on Victims Responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission  Section D: Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration, Post-War Reconstruction and the Building of a Capable State and the Role of the International Community in the Peace Process  13. To Rouse Liberia, Long Forlorn: Reconstruct Governance  14. The Post-Conflict Security Gap and the UN Peace Operations System  15. Africa’s Security Dilemma: National Stability vs. World Security  16. US Assistance to Africa: Challenges of Weapon Sales and Military Aid  17. Concluding Thoughts: After the Fighting Stops

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