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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797927903321

Titolo

Across the lines of conflict : facilitating cooperation to build peace / / edited by Michael Lund and Steve McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia ; ; New York : , : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-231-80137-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

303.66

Soggetti

Peace-building

Conflict management

Reconciliation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword / Hamilton, Lee H. -- Preface / McDonald, Steve -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Approaching the Subject -- 1. Intrastate Conflicts and the Problem of Political Will / Lund, Michael -- 2. Unofficial Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace / Lund, Michael -- Part II. Assessing Country Cases -- Averting Conflict Escalation -- 3. Estonia: Psychopolitical Dialogue Contributing to Conflict Prevention / Allen, Susan H. -- 4. Can Dialogues Change the Course of a Small Nation? The Social Cohesion Program in Guyana / Lund, Michael -- Ending Active Conflicts -- 5. Tajikistan: Peace Secured, but the State of Our Dreams? / Matveeva, Anna -- 6. Sri Lanka: When Negotiations Fail-Talks for the Sake of Talks; War for the Sake of Peace / Siebert, Hannes / Charles, Chanya -- Transcending Past Conflicts -- 7. The Harvard Study Group on Cyprus: Contributions to an Unfulfilled Peace Process / Chigas, Diana -- 8. The Burundi Leadership Training Program / Campbell, Susanna / Uvin, Peter -- Part III. Findings and Implications -- 9. Learning from the Case Studies: Impacts and Explanations / Lund, Michael -- 10. Contemporary Implications: From Trust-Building to Institution-Building / Lund, Michael -- Contributors -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in recent years. In Estonia and Guyana, peacebuilding initiatives sought to ward off violence. In Burundi and Sri Lanka, initiatives focused on ending ongoing hostilities, and in Cyprus and Tajikistan, these efforts brought peace to the country after its violence had ended. The contributors follow a systematic assessment framework, including a common set of questions for interviewing participants to prepare comparable results from a set of diverse cases. Their findings weigh the successes and failures of this particular approach to conflict resolution and draw conclusions about the conditions under which such interactive approaches work, as well as assess the audience and the methodologies used.This work features research conducted in conjunction with the Working Group on Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, convened by the Wilson Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.