The art of mediation : Indonesia's role in the quest for peace in Southern Ph…

This book is a work in progress it is part of a larger effort, which is to tell the story of a legacy the legacy of the Indonesian statesman Ali Alatas who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999

An agenda for peace: Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping

The United Nations is a gathering of sovereign States and what it can do depends on the common ground that they create between them. The adver- sarial decades of the cold war made the original promise of the Organization impossible to fulfil. The January 1992 Summit therefore represented an unprecedented recommitment, at the highest politi- cal level, to the Purposes and Principles of the Ch…

Peace building in the Asia Pacific Region: Perspectives from Japan and Australia

This collection canvasses the current requirements of T achieving and consolidating peace in the Asia Pacific region, from the special perspectives of two 'outsiders' in the region, Australia and Japan. It explores the strategic, political, economic and cultural dimensions of peace building, with special emphasis on ASEAN and APEC, and concludes that Japan's role as indispensable economic hub a…

The five summit conferences of the non-aligned countries: Documents

The Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries noting that there are crises that lead towards a world conflict in the transition from and old order based on domination to a new order based on coopera- tion between nations, founded on freedom, equality and social justice for the promotion of prosperity

Building sustainable peace

As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the issue of postconflict peacebuilding takes center stage. As envisioned by former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, this will include disarming warring parties, restoring order, decommissioning and destroying weapons, repatriating refugees, providing advisory and training support for security personnel, …

Peacekeeping in East Timor: The path to Independence

The UN intervention in East Timor illustrates the type of complex operation that the United Nations increasingly being asked to undertake. Michael Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which was designed to work in partnership with the East Timorese in guiding the country to independence following the 1999 vote to secede from Ind…

Grasping the democratic peace: Principles for a post-cold war world

Is Communism's collapse merely the passing of a particularly lethal adversarial relationship between the super powers - or an extraordinary chance to make fundamental changes in how nations resolve conflicts? In answering this query, Bruce Russett shows that the world's great nations now have an opportunity to realize the "democratic peace" envisioned by Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson. These …

Searching for peace in Asia Pacific : an overview of conflict prevention and …

This book is one of the major outcomes of the Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). Numerous individuals and organizations from the Asia Pacific region, Europe. the United States, and Canada provided their advice, insights, and support in shaping the project, participated in workshops and seminars, gave feedback on draft texts, contri…

Contemporary conflict resolution: The prevention, management and transformati…

This book marks a milestone in peace research. The insightful review of the early development of the field of conflict resolution brings a much-needed perspective on the challenges presented by late twentieth-century conflicts. The authors provide a complex and highly differentiated view of today's international collectivity, in which no one set of actors or perspectives predominates. The analy…

Bound to cooperate: Conflict, peace and people in Sierra Leone

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ISBN/ISSN

92-9045-137-8

Deskripsi Fisik

xv, 206 pages ; 21 cm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

303.6 Ayi b