Beyond settlement : making peace last after civil conflict / edited by Vanessa E. Shields and Nicholas D.J. Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shields, Vanessa E., 1981-

Baldwin, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Case studies.

Peace-building.

Conflict management--Case studies.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection examines and evaluates institution building and security sector reform in conflict states. It does so through an analysis of eighteen case studies covering eleven countries, spanning five continents and six decades. Each case study is written by an expert/practitioner. Some of the conflicts covered are ongoing, others have been resolved. Still others are in a peace-building or immediate post-conflict stage. The rationale behind having such a variety of case studies is so as to be able to examine the processes of institution building and security sector reform over time and through a variety of stages in order to identify and evaluate similarities and differences, successes and failures. In all of this the role of the editors has been to see if there are identifiable similarities and elements that can be applied across civil conflicts in attempts to make peace last as nations and peoples move beyond settlement. Vanessa E. Shields is Program Manager with a Washington, DC consultancy group primarily working with USAID, Nicholas D. J. Baldwin is Dean and Director of Operations at Wroxton College.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acronyms""; ""Introduction""; ""Afghanistan: Political Reform""; ""Afghanistan: Security Sector Reform""; ""Bosnia and Herzegovina: Consolidating Democratic Institutions""; ""Cambodia After Democratization: Accountability Trap""; ""Consolidating Peace in Cambodia: Stabilization without Security Sector Reform""; ""Guatemala Stuck in the Middle: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Democracy""; ""Lebanon: Confessionalism, Institution Building, and the Challenges of Securing Peace""; ""Nepal: Democracy, Armed Insurgency, and the Peace Process""

""Nepal: From Armed Conflict to Arms Management""""Northern Ireland: The Search for a Democratic Settlement""; ""Northern Ireland: Securing the Peace""; ""Palestine""; ""South Africa: A Case Study in Institution Building""; ""South Africa: Security Transformation""; ""Spain""; ""Spain: Secuirty Sector Reform from Transition to Consolidation of Democracy""; ""Between Power and Empowerment: Building Political Institutions in Postsettlement Sudan""; ""Challenging the Settlement: Politicized Insecurity in Sudan""; ""Concluding Observations""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4337-X

OCLC:

922966463