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Diasporas in conflict : peace-makers or peace-wreckers? / edited by Hazel Smith and Paul Stares.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Immigrants--Political activity--Case studies.
- Immigrants.
- Conflict management--Case studies.
- Conflict management.
- World politics.
- Immigrants--Political activity.
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- World politics--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Diasporas can be a powerful force in international politics. Groups of exiles, refugees, migrants and other forms of diaspora populations play a part in the processes and outcomes of international politics in both their native and their adopted countries. Diasporas can secure tangible and intangible resources to fuel armed conflicts, and they can provide opaque institutional and network structures that enable the transfer of arms and money to terrorist groups. More positively, diasporas can give humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict and they may also support post-war reconstruction efforts. Diasporas have the potential to make substantial contributions to peace and reconciliation.
- This book investigates the diverse roles of diasporas in different phases of conflict, including pre-conflict and escalatory phases, hot conflict, peace-making and peace-building. The contributors identify patterns of diaspora intervention in conflicts and focus on leverage points for constructive interventions by global policy-makers. The book brings together globally authoritative voices in the study of diasporas from the diverse disciplines of political science, sociology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminist theory and anthropology. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The analytical and conceptual framework
- Diasporas in international conflict / Hazel Smith
- A neglected relationship: diasporas and conflict resolution / Jacob Bercovitch
- Gender, diasporas and post
- cold war conflict / Nadje S. Al-Ali
- The case studies
- The Jewish diaspora and the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict / Gabriel Sheffer
- The Palestinian diaspora / Mohammed A. Bamyeh
- The Armenian diaspora and the Karabagh conflict since 1988 / Khachig Tölölyan
- A reluctant diaspora? the case of Colombia / Virginia M. Bouvier
- The Cuban diaspora / Jean Grugel and Henry Kippin
- The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora: sustaining conflict and pushing for peace / C. Christine Fair
- Kurdish interventions in the Iraq war / Denise Natali
- The mobilized Croatian diaspora: its role in homeland politics and war / Zlatko Skrbis
- African diasporas and post-conflict reconstruction: an Eritrean case study / Khalid Koser
- Political remittance: Cambodian diasporas in conflict and post conflict / Khatharya Um.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789280811407
- 9280811401
- OCLC:
- 81252624
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