Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Peace

Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding
societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing
the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners
of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve
many of the same goals notably to end violence and loss of
life they often make different assumptions, apply different methods,
and operate under different values and institutional constraints.
As a result, they may adopt conflicting or even mutually
exclusive approaches to the same problem.
Eileen F. Babbitt...

Is war necessary? In Peace and War prominent anthropologists and other social scientists explore the cultural and social factors leading to war. They analyze the covert causes of war from a cross-cultural perspective: ideologies that dispose people to war; underlying patterns of social relationships that help institutionalize war; and the cultural systems of military establishments. Overt causes of war--environmental factors like the control of scarce resources, advantageous territories, and technologies, or promoting the wel-fare of people "like" oneself--are also...

A new examination of Nordic approaches to peace operations after the Cold War. It shows how the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) remain relevant for the study and practice of post-Cold War peace operations.

This unique study is structured around eleven success conditions derived from an analysis of the lessons learned since the early 1990s, ensuring that the results of the case studies are directly comparable. These case studies are supplemented by an analysis of Nordics' collective efforts to replace their old Cold War peacekeeping model with a new one that...

Effective peace agreements are rarely accomplished by idealists. The process of moving from situations of entrenched oppression, armed conflict, open warfare, and mass atrocities toward peace and reconciliation requires a series of small steps and compromises to open the way for the kind of dialogue and negotiation that make political stability, the beginning of democracy, and the rule of law a possibility.

For over forty years, Charles Villa-Vicencio has been on the front lines of Africa's battle for racial equality. In Walk with Us and Listen, he argues that reconciliation...