Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes

✍ Scribed by John Darby, Roger Mac Ginty (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Contemporary Peace Making draws on recent experience to identify and explore the essential components of peace processes. Each chapter examines a different element in recent peace processes. The collection is organized around five main themes: planning for peace during periods of violence; the process of negotiations (including pre-negotiation); the effects of violence on peace processes; peace accords - constitutional and political options and; securing the settlement and building the peace.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: What Peace? What Process?....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Explaining the Conflict Potential of Ethnicity....Pages 9-18
The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments....Pages 19-29
Cultivating Peace: a Practitioner’s View of Deadly Conflict and Negotiation....Pages 30-37
New Contexts for Political Solutions: Redefining Minority Nationalisms in Northern Ireland, the Basque Country and Corsica....Pages 38-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Negotiations and Peace Processes....Pages 53-64
Rules and Procedures for Negotiated Peacemaking....Pages 65-76
Mediation and the Ending of Conflicts....Pages 77-86
The Role of the News Media in Peace Negotiations: Variations over Time and Circumstance....Pages 87-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Peace Processes and the Challenges of Violence....Pages 103-113
Reframing the Spoiler Debate in Peace Processes....Pages 114-124
Managing Violence: Disarmament and Demobilization....Pages 125-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Power-sharing after Civil Wars: Matching Problems to Solutions....Pages 139-150
Peace Accords and Ethnic Conflicts: a Comparative Analysis of Content and Approaches....Pages 151-160
Human Rights and Minority Protection....Pages 161-173
Democratic Validation....Pages 174-183
Territorial Options....Pages 184-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
From Peace to Democratization: Lessons from Central America....Pages 197-211
Military and Police Reform after Civil Wars....Pages 212-223
Transformation and Reconciliation....Pages 224-234
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
The Role of Symbols in Peacemaking....Pages 235-244
Borrowing and Lending in Peace Processes....Pages 245-255
Conclusion: Peace Processes, Present and Future....Pages 256-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-296

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Military and Defence Studies