War Peace

By Nicos Trimikliniotis, Umut Bozkurt

Cyprus is a postcolonial island identified for traditional fuel reserves and ethnic divisions. This quantity offers a clean viewpoint at the Cyprus challenge by way of studying the societal differences happening in the island: socioeconomic improvement, inhabitants transitions and migration, and speedily altering social and political associations.

By Sven Behrendt

The Oslo mystery negotiations from 1992 to 1993 have been the most magnificent and likewise winning negotiations within the center East, resulting in the mutual attractiveness among the PLO and Israel. via an in-depth exam of the Oslo negotiations, this e-book argues that on the middle of the negotiations was once a desirable challenge of popularity. Overcoming this challenge was once on the centre of the key negotiations. an intensive research files how determination makers attempted to speak with no with the ability to interact in face-to-face negotiations, and highlights the importance of the position of 3rd events within the clash answer method, stressing particularly the significance of the eu Union’s strength in bringing the perimeters jointly. this can be a accomplished account of the Oslo negotiations, focusing really at the well timed factor of non-recognition – that is of serious significance at the present time given the hot emergence of the increase of Hamas because the dominant Palestinian political strength.

By Chiyuki Aoi

This e-book examines the idea that of legitimacy because it can be used to give an explanation for the good fortune, or failure, of key balance operations because the finish of the chilly struggle. within the luck of balance operations, legitimacy is vital. with the intention to be successful, the intervening strength needs to create a feeling of legitimacy of the venture one of the a number of constituencies serious about and desirous about the enterprise. those events comprise the folks of the host country, the host govt (whose family members with the local community has to be legitimate), political elites and most of the people worldwide—including the intervening events’ personal household constituencies, who will maintain (or no longer maintain) the intervention by means of supplying (or retreating) aid. This publication seeks to carry into shut scrutiny the legitimacy of balance interventions within the post-Cold struggle period, by way of featuring an idea that captures either the multi-faceted nature of legitimacy and the method of legitimation that happens in each one case. Case reports on Liberia, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Iraq clarify how legitimacy with regards to the end result of those operations. This publication might be of a lot curiosity to scholars of balance operations, counterinsurgency, peace operations, humanitarian intervention, and IR/security reports as a rule.

By Jane Sahi

By Paul Brooker

By Chavanne L. Peercy

This booklet presents an in-depth research into the ways that neighborhood leaders effect internationally-led democratic transition. utilizing 3 key case reports, Burundi, Cambodia and Liberia, it re-evaluates present transition paradigms providing a brand new framework for realizing the jobs of neighborhood leaders in democratic transition and peacebuilding.

By Michael Kelly, Catherine Baker (auth.)

By Seema Shekhawat

This edited quantity illuminates the position of girls in violence to illustrate that gender is a key component to discourse on clash and peace. via an exam of concept and perform of women's participation in violent conflicts, the booklet makes the argument that either clash and post-conflict events are gender insensitive.

By Stefanie Kappler (auth.)

By Richard Barltrop

The Darfur clash has provided the overseas group with a couple of demanding situations. How can the combating be stopped in Darfur? What will be performed to avoid wasting lives and support the 2 million humans displaced by means of the clash? and the way to assist result in peace, whereas making sure that the peace contract for the second one Sudanese Civil struggle (1983 - 2005) is carried out? Drawing on unique examine, and tracing the heritage of overseas responses to the conflicts in Sudan, Richard Barltrop investigates what has decided the results of overseas mediation and reduction in Sudan. within the approach, he exhibits that Darfur has to be obvious in the wider context of clash in Sudan, and that classes may be drawn either for Sudan and for the powerful perform of clash solution.