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Building peace, creating conflict?

conflictual dimensions of local and international peace-building

ed. by Hanne Fjelde ; Kristine Hoglund

Buch

englisch

Hoglund, Kristine (Ed.) DNB
Fjelde, Hanne (Ed.) DNB

Nordic Academic Press

Lund, Sweden

2011

192 p.

978-91-85509-60-7

case study
bosnia herzegovina
democratization
afghanistan
conflict management

Contents:
Building peace, creating conflict? / Hanne Fjelde & Kristine Ho¨glund -- Just peace postponed : unending peace processes and frozen conflicts / Karin Aggestam & Annik Bjo¨rkdahl -- Peacekeeping and transitions to democracy / Birger Heldt -- Interveners and intervened upon : the missing link in building peace and avoiding conflict / Linne´a Gelot & Fredrik So¨derbaum -- Local ownership of peace : Hobbes, Rousseau, and international support for state-building in Afghanistan / Louise Olsson & Anna K. Jarstad -- Education through regulation? : external intervention in domestic politics in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina / Roland Kostic´ -- Individual justice and collective innocence : the role of the ICTY in a Bosnian town / Johanna Mannergren Selimovic -- Humanitarian assistance and the politics of gender equality : a study of refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border / Elisabeth Olivius.

Summary:
One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to secure stability and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars. International peace-building missions have been deployed in a range of countries emerging from civil war. The empirical record of international efforts to advance peace has been mixed. While some post-war countries have made significant strides towards peace and democracy, other countries have experienced a return to war. In yet other cases the outcome has been a partial implementation of peace where new conflicts have been generated in the process. In this book a group of experts discuss the conflictual dimensions of peace-building. The authors specialise in various aspects and cover several themes such as 'frozen conflicts' and 'unending peace processes'; the efficiency of peacekeeping operations in promoting democracy, and individual and collective dimensions of justice and reconciliation.

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