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The Two Faces Of Peace Building, Michael Harbottle, Eirwen Harbottle

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Terminology, if not precisely defined, can lead to misinterpretation and misunderstanding. This has been the case in the way in which the United Nations has been using peacemaking, peacekeeping and, more recently, peacebuilding. Agenda for Peace, produced by the UN Secretary General in 1992 suffers from some ambiguity in this respect. For example, it refers to the military performing a peacemaking role. The military cannot make peace, that is the role of the diplomat or politician. All that the military can do is to allay, defuse and help to end the manifest violence so that the peacemaking process can …

Peace Building And Conflict Transformation, Kevin Clements

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The world clearly needs some new ways of thinking about old problems and new ways of acting if we are going to survive into the 21st century. It is vital, therefore, that students of peace and conflict work out ways of harnessing the creative imagination of everyone so that all peoples can envisage a positive future and ways of realizing that future. This imagining cannot be narrow. It has to be broad, inclusive, interdisciplinary and systemic but it has to begin if we are to have a viable future.

Field Diplomacy: A New Conflict Prevention Paradigm?, Luc Reychler

Peace and Conflict Studies

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One of the most important challenges facing the global community in the next decade, is the prevention of destructive conflicts. Listening to the discourse in the United Nations and other governmental and non governmental organizations this may sound like kicking in wide open doors (Bauwens and Reychler, 1994). But the failure of conflict prevention and the high number of conflict zones, indicates that we still have a long way to go. A global survey of contemporary conflicts counts 22 high-intensity and 39 lowerintensity conflicts, and 40 serious disputes (PIOOM, 1995). In 1995 five groups were victims of genocides or …

Introduction, Elise Boulding

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The papers brought together here represent a part of the work of the IPRA (International Peace Research Association) Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building that met during the 1994 Conference of the International Peace Research Association at Malta to address the issues of peace building in crisis areas. The focus here is particularly on new approaches to peace building, including United Nations reform and civil society innovation. After fifty years of UN peace building efforts, it is clear that the UN cannot function effectively without the involvement of civil society in each conflict region. How the UN, member …

Nonviolent Interposition In Armed Conflicts, Alberto L'Abate

Peace and Conflict Studies

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In 1931 Gandhi spoke of the possibility of overcoming violent conflicts with "a living wall of men and women" who would interpose themselves between conflicting parties without any other weapons than themselves (Weber, 1988). Some students of nonviolent intervention have written histories of interpositionary experiences from Gandhi's first idea until recent years (Keyes, 1978; Weber, 1988; Walker, 1981; L'Abate, 1993a). Maybe it is time to try an evaluation of these types of interventions.1

Un Military Demands And Non-Offensive Defensive Security Humanitarian Intervention And Peace Operations, Bjφrn Mφller

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Reasons For Illegalization Of Nuclear Weapons, Takashi Hiraoka

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Conflict-Mitigation In Reconstruction And Development, Jan Øberg

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Towards A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, Ramesh Thakur

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Social Cubism: Six Social Forces Of Ethnoterritorial Politics In Northern Ireland And Quebec, Sean Byrne, Neal Carter

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Reasons For Illegalization Of Nuclear Weapons, Takashi Hiraoka

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Domination And Resistance, Exclusion And Inclusion: Indigenous People’S Quest For Peace And Justice, Franke Wilmer

Peace and Conflict Studies

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What Can We Learn From Comparing Mediation Across Levels, Tom Molburn

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The United Nations At Fiftysomething: Challenges And Dilemmas In The Post-Cold War Era, Martin Martin Rochester

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Creating Global-Local Cultures Of Peace, Paul Smoker, Linda Groff

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Peace In Our Global Neighbourhood, Shridath Ramphal

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Roots Of Cooperation, Hanna Newcombe

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Evolution Of An Interdisciplinary Peace Studies Centre: The Bradford Experience, Paul Rogers

Peace and Conflict Studies

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