Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

ISBN-13: 9780714680392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 269 str.

Tom Woodhouse; Oliver Ramsbotham

Opis

Conflict resolution and peacekeeping are not only closely related conceptually, they were also inventions of the same historical period. Peacekeeping was first defined under the Hammarskjold Principles of 1956, while we can date the formal institutionalization of conflict resolution to the founding of the Journal of Conflict Resolution in 1957. However, it is in the 1990s that conflict resolution theorists turned to the perspectives of conflict theory in an effort to develop more effective practices of peacekeeping. This book is about the ways in which conflict resolution theory has become relevant to the various challenges faced 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 1990s.

Spis treści

For those who are coming fresh to the field of peacekeeping, for those who want to revisit the field for a state-of-the-art review of many current issues in the field, and above all for those who want to know how far the debate on peacekeeping/conflict resolution has progressed, this is an excellent reference book.

The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest



" This book uncovers a previously obscured relationship between different approaches to dealing with conflict, and in that it is an important contribution."

- Terrorism and Political Violence

O autorze

Authored by Ramsbotham, Oliver; Woodhouse, Tom