Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peace-building

Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peace-building
ISBN-10
9185509604
ISBN-13
9789185509607
Category
Political Science
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2011-01-01
Publisher
Nordic Academic Press
Authors
Hanne Fjelde, Kristine Höglund

Description

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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