Author: Levi C Williams
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: mandate, mission, peacebuilding
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2004-11-06
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 1594679045
ISBN-13: 9781594679049

Author: Lisa Schirch
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: peacebuilding, symbol, ritual
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1565491947
ISBN-13: 9781565491946

* Serves as a guide to using ritual acts in peacebuilding efforts* Abundant with examples of symbolic acts that aided the peace processConflict is dramatic. In theater, literature, story telling, and news reporting, it is a powerful mechanism that draws attention, heightens the senses and evokes emotion. Schirch argues that peacebuilding has the potential to do just the same.Examples of peacebuilding often center on the serious, rational negotiations and formal problem-solving efforts in conflict situations. Schirch argues, though, that what truly bonds adversaries and helps achieve peace are

Authors:Luc Reychler, Thania Paffenholz,
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Keywords: guide, field, peacebuilding
Number of Pages: 573
Published: 2000-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1555879373
ISBN-13: 9781555879372

Part of the ongoing search for sustainable peace, this handbook highlights the invaluable contributions of people working in the field. The authors clarify how fieldworkers "fit" into the overall peacebuilding process, providing details of the most effective practices and offering guidelines for preparing for the field. Part 1 of the book introduces concepts and tools for sustainable peacebuilding. It includes chapters on selecting and training fieldworkers. Part 2 focuses on seven specific peacebuilding activities: mediation; monitoring; linking development aid and peacebuilding; training loc

Authors:Taisier M. Ali, Robert O. Matthew,
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: africa, peacebuilding, challenges, peace, durable
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2004-05-12
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 080208463X
ISBN-13: 9780802084637

The African continent has been racked with war in the years since decolonization. In the aftermath of violent conflict, peace is often fragile. With Durable Peace, Taisier M. Ali and Robert O. Matthews have brought together leading scholars to discuss the experiences of ten African countries ? Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe ? in recovering from violent civil war.In this series of remarkable and thought-provoking essays, the contributors shed light on the process of peacebuilding. Collectively, they demonstrate that if efforts t

Author: Howard Zehr
Publisher: Good Books
Keywords: little, justice, peacebuilding, amp, books, book, restorative
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1561483761
ISBN-13: 9781561483761

Vengeance and bitter violence have had their turns—without redemptive results. How should we as a society respond to wrongdoing? When a crime occurs or an injustice is done, what needs to happen? What does justice require? Howard Zehr, known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understandings of justice, here proposes workable Principles and Practices for making restorative justice both possible and useful. First he explores how restorative justice is different from criminal justice. Then, before letting those appealing observations drift out of reach, into theoretical s

Author: Tim Murithi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: ethics, world, studies, edinburgh, peacebuilding
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0748624481
ISBN-13: 9780748624485

In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order rapidly dissolved underneath the pressure of internecine conflicts raging on all continents.The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides especially proved that promoting peace is a particularly fraught challenge in the face of intra-state conflict and sub-national groups that boldy confront nation-states. Tim Murithi investigates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding, synthesizing the fields of moral philosophy and international relations through an analysis of the ethics of negoti

Authors:Julie Mertus, Jeffrey Helsing,
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Keywords: rights, law, peacebuilding, links, exploring, conflict, human
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2006-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1929223765
ISBN-13: 9781929223763

The relationship between human rights and conflict is dynamic, complex, and powerful, constantly shaping and reshaping the course of both peace and war. Yet, despite its importance, our understanding of this relationship has long been fragmentary, chiefly because three different schools of thought—human rights, conflict resolution, and international law—have offered three different and often contradictory perspectives.This much-needed volume brings these perspectives together to create a composite picture of the relationship between human rights and conflict. The book’s distinguished con