Challenges to peacebuilding [[electronic resource] ] : managing spoilers during conflict resolution / / edited by Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond

• Pubblicazione: Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1/72
• Soggetto topico: Peace-building; Conflict management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: NewmanEdward <1970-> RichmondOliver P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : obstacles to peace processes : understanding spoiling / Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond -- Part I: Spoiling, violence and mediation. Internal and external dynamics of spoiling : a negotiation approach / Karin Aggestam -- Understanding the violence of insiders : loyalty, custodians of peace, and the sustainability of conflict settlement / Marie-Joëlle Zahar -- The linkage between devious objectives and spoiling behaviour in peace processes / Oliver Richmond -- Terrorism as a tactic of spoilers in peace processes / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Spoilers or catalysts? : the role of diasporas in peace processes / Yossi Shain and Ravinatha P. Aryasinha -- "New wars" and spoilers / Edward Newman -- Part II: Cases. Northern Ireland : a peace process thwarted by accidential spoiling / Roger Mac Ginty -- Why do peace processes collapse? : the Basque conflict and the three-spoilers perspective / Daniele Conversi -- Peace on whose terms? : war veterans' associations in Bosnia and Hercegovina / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic -- Spoilers in Colombia : actors and strategies / Carlo Nasi -- The Israeli-Palestinian peace process : the strategic art of deception / Magnus Ranstorp -- Spoiling peace in Cyprus / Nathalie Tocci -- The Abkhazia and South Ossetia cases : spoilers in a nearly collapsed peace process / George Khutsishvili -- Spoilers and devious objectives in Kashmir / Jaideep Saiia.
• Sommario/riassunto: Many ceasefires and peace agreements in civil conflict are initially unsuccessful. Some give way to renewed, and often escalating, violence. In other cases, peace processes have become interminably protracted: lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare. Given the huge material and human costs of a failed peace process, the international community has a strong interest in helping these processes succeed and addressing threats to their implementation. Challenges to Peacebuilding approaches this problem by focussing on 'spoilers': groups and tactics that actively seek to
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenges to peacebuilding
• ISBN: 1-280-91576-5; 9786610915767; 1-4294-4167-4; 92-808-7077-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451527003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II