Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict: The Berghof Handbook

ISBN-13: 9783810039408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 476 str.

Alex Austin; Martina Fischer; Norbert Ropers

Opis

Preface Confronted with a wide variety of conflicts, the international community has attempted to respond through humanitarian assistance, development aid, crisis prevention and conflict resolution programmes. To date many of these activities have exacerbated conflict dynamics as much as they have enhanced the opportunities for sustainable development and peace. In an effort to understand what works, lessons learned and best practices are being collected usually in the form of evaluations of individual projects or programs. Although the number of studies undertaken has increased, few lessons have been systematised or accumulated for broader discussion in the academic field or for practitioners' use. The Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management produced this Handbook in response to the contemporary challenges which have to be faced by those who are working in and on violent conflict. The intention is to give an overview of recent developments in the field of conflict transformation from various perspectives: from academic analysts and practitioners as well as from experts representing different areas of work inside and outside of conflict zones.

Recenzje

"Was die [...] Beiträge und den Band insgesamt authentisch wirken lassen, ist der Umstand, dass hier auch Autoren aus der Praxis zu Wort kommen. Das Berghof-Handbuch schließt somit [...] wirklich eine Lücke in der Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis." WeltTrends, 55/2007

"Der Sammelband stellt damit ein thematisch umfassendes und inhaltlich anspruchsvolles Werk dar, das v. a. durch seine überzeugende Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis besticht." ZPol - Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 01/2005

Spis treści

Concepts and Cross-Cutting Chllenges - Analysing Conflict and Assessing Conflict Transformation - Enhancing the Capacity for Conflict Transformation - Structural Reforms, Institutionebuilding and Violence Control - Recovering from War: Reconstruction versus Just Peace

O autorze

Alex Austin is Associated Researcher, Dr. Martina Fischer is Acting Director and Dr. Norbert Ropers is Director at the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin.

Blurb

Das englischsprachige Berghof Handbook ist das internationale Referenzwerk zum Thema Konflikttransformation.
The Berghof Handbook offers both practitioners and scholars a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art of conflict transformation.
In response to the contemporary challenges of violent conflict and to recent developments in the field of conflict transformation, the Berghof Handbook summarises and promotes dialogue about the "state of the art" in theory and practice of crisis prevention and non-violence, peace consolidation and the civil management of inter-group conflicts. The Berghof Handbook is designed primarily for practitioners seeking ideas and information for their own work and wishing to draw on the wealth of experience amassed by their colleagues in a range of regions and contexts. It is also intended for experts in politics, research and journalism.