No war, no peace : the rejuvenation of stalled peace processes and peace accords / Roger Mac Ginty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mac Ginty, Roger, 1970-

Series:

Rethinking peace and conflict studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace.

Peace treaties.

Peace-building.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baskingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Most peace accords reached in civil wars over the past decade have resulted in extremely dysfunctional peace: a grudging and exhausted hiatus in conflict rather than a process that results in sustainable peace and reconciliation between antagonistic groups. Despite the local and international peace-support energy expended in Bosnia, Israel-Palestine, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere, the quality of peace experienced by citizens in post-war locations is often appalling.

This book adopts a critical perspective to investigate the stalled, tense and fragile peace that often follows orthodox peace processes and peace accords supported by the international community. It identifies the 'liberal democratic peace' as the increasingly standardised version of peace promoted by leading states, international organisations and international financial institutions. Based on extensive observations in societies emerging from civil wars, No War. No Peace offers guidance on a rejuvenation and reorientation of stalled and dysfunctional peace accords.

Contents:

1 Peace 2

2 Liberal Democratic Peace 33

3 Conflict 58

4 Critical Peace Assessment 81

5 Peace Accords Thwarted by Violence 108

6 The Elusive Peace Dividend 132

7 Peace Prevented by External Actors 154

Conclusion: What Works? 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.

ISBN:

1403946612

OCLC:

64442936

Publisher Number:

9781403946614

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