Conflict Prevention evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity. This volume brings together a diverse group of individuals involved in conflict prevention activities: scholars from developed and developing countries, and practitioners with insights on the wor…
In World on Fire, Amy Chua shows that just the opposite has happened. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations turns ugly and violent. Examining the actual impact of economic globalization across the world Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities. These 'market- …
This book wrestles with fundamental questions of practical disarmament and peace building in Sierra Leone. Although they were written prior to the May-June 2000 upsurge of violence in Freetown that led to the arrest of Foday Sankoh, these incidents underline the relevance of the authors analyses. The various research papers published in this volume have been written by civic leaders from Sierra…
Konflik Palestina telah menjadi simbol degradasi pada titik nadir perjalanan peradaban manusia dan seakan-akan selalu menghadirkan mimpi buruk tanpa berbatas. Persoalan di Palestina mengingatkan kita pada sikap keserakahan, kekejaman dan kebengisan dari anak manusia yang satu terhadap anak manusia lainnya, seolah-olah tidak menyisakan sedikit pun harapan untuk rekonsiliasi.
Indonesia sebagai negara yang sangat konsisten dan memiliki komitmen kuat terhadap perdamaian dunia, khususnya terhadap solusi yang adil bagi Palestina berkesempatan untuk menyuarakan asiprasi yang konstruktif dan suportif apabila mengacu pada pesan- pesan yang disampaikan oleh Presiden Obama. Meskipun secara politis, Indonesia berdiri mendukung Palestina dalam mencapai kemerdekaan dan memperol…
In the colonial period, the imposition of alien culture has produced a situation in which there developed a symbiosis in which aspects of the traditional culture and the imposed foreign culture through the medium of language, christianity and western education were merged to produce a new culture. But there are also cases in which the traditional culture displayed so much resilience that the at…
EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions. Attempting to carve out a new role as a key foreign and security policy actor in international politics, the EU has been involved in peace negotiations across the globe. Here, Taylan Ozgur Kaya looks at how this is enacted, with particular reference to the …
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait marked a major watershed in the modern history of the Middle East with consequences that are likely to affect the whole region for decades to come. But nowhere has the impact of the Gulf War been more immediately and profoundly felt than among the member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. I…
This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding conflict resolution in today's global world. In the first part, Peter Wallensteen introduces the fields of conflict resolution as they have developed since the end of the Cold War and demonstrates various approaches to conflict analysis and conflict resolution. The core of the book explores three major types of international conflict: in…
Britain has one of the oldest and most developed democracies on earth. It is admired and copied the world over. Yet at home British politics is frequently viewed with a mixture of derision and contempt. Why? Our democratic system may be mature but the politicians we elect and the media we rely on to tell us what they are up to often behave like difficult teenagers, calling each other names, arg…