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UNINA9910797927903321 |
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Across the lines of conflict : facilitating cooperation to build peace / / edited by Michael Lund and Steve McDonald |
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Washington, District of Columbia ; ; New York : , : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
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1 online resource (443 p.) |
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Peace-building |
Conflict management |
Reconciliation |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910557544903321 |
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Alcantara Andres R |
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Applied Biocatalysis in Europe: A Sustainable Tool for Improving Life Quality |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Research & information: general |
Research and information: general |
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Applied biocatalysis and biotransformation, that is, the use of enzymes and whole-cell systems in manufacturing processes for synthetic purposes, has been experiencing a clear boom in recent years, which has led to the start of the so-called "fourth wave". In fact, the latest advances in bioinformatics, system biology, process intensification, and, in particular, enzyme-directed evolution (encouraged by the 2018 Nobel Prize awarded to F. Arnold), are widening the range of the efficacy of biocatalysts and accelerating the rate at which new enzymes are becoming available, even for activities not previously known. European scientists have been very actively involved in different aspects of this field. Nine contributions dealing with different aspects of applied biocatalysis developed by European researchers are gathered in this Special Issue |
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