Partners in peace : discourses and practices of civil-society peace building / by Mathijs van Leeuwen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeuwen, Mathijs van.

Series:

Non-state actors in international law, politics, and governance series.

Non-state actors in international law, politics and governance series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Peace-building--Case studies.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surry : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Framing the debate using case studies from Africa and Central America, Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil society in peacebuilding and offers a radically new perspective on how international organizations can support such efforts.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Boxes; Acknowledgements; 1 Overcoming Conflict:The Importance of Civil-Society Peacebuilding; 2 Civil Society Building Peace: The Development of an Idea; 3 Mapping the Peacebuilding Landscape: Policies and Practices; 4 Grounding Local Peace Organizations: A Case Study of Southern Sudan; 5 Imagining the Great Lakes Region: Civil-society Regional Approaches for Peacebuilding in Rwanda, Burundi, and DR Congo; 6 Crisis or Continuity?Framing Land Disputes and Local Conflict Resolution in Burundi

7 To Conform or to Confront?Civil Society and Agrarian Conflict in Post-conflict Guatemala8 Conclusion: Civil-Society Peacebuilding - What Does it Mean in Practice?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59957-0

1-317-08362-8

1-317-08361-X

1-282-34478-1

9786612344787

0-7546-9474-7

9781315599571

OCLC:

646871373