Book Description
This book focuses on creating a sustainable peace as opposed to winning the peace. It is comprised of fifteen papers, which examine and discuss various dimensions of the peace-building and post-conflict reconciliation process. Authored by academics, policy advisors, practitioners and members of the public at large, the papers address issues such as factors that have contributed to the process of resolving civil wars and reconciling divided societies; the different techniques used in the peace-building process; the role of various nongovernmental actors and regional organizations; and the experiences of peace-building efforts in different regions of the world.
Building Sustainable Peace SYNOPSIS
Keating and Knight (both professors of political science, U. of Alberta, Canada) present fifteen papers from a March 2000 symposium that explore issues of international intervention, techniques of peacebuilding, and the role of nongovernmental actors and regional organizations in the peacebuilding process. Mostly written by academics, but including contributions from some policy advisors and practitioners, the papers discuss such topics as the commodification and militarization of peacebuilding, judicial sector reforms in Haiti following the early 1990s intervention, peacebuilding experiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone, an assessment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, financing of peacebuilding missions, the creation of a smalls arms control region, and the role of Africa's regional organization in the Horn of Africa. The book is co-published by the U. of Alberta Press and United Nations University Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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