The walls between conflict and peace / edited by Alberto Gasparini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gasparini, Alberto, editor.

Series:

International comparative social studies ; Volume 34.

International Comparative Social Studies, 1568-4474 ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Political aspects.

Boundaries.

Boundaries--Social aspects.

Boundaries--Political aspects--Case studies.

Boundaries--Social aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

The Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and political societies, national and supranational societies. Such changes occur because over time cooperation between populations produces an active quest for peace, which is therefore a peace in constant movement. These are the concepts and lines of political development analysed in the book. The first part of the book deals with political walls and how they evolve into borders, or even disappear. The second part discusses possible and actual walls between empires, and also walls which may take shape within present-day empires. The third part analyses various ways of being of walls between and within states: Berlin, the Vatican State and Italy, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, Belfast, Northern European Countries, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the USA and Mexico. In addition, discussion centres on a possible new Iron Curtain between the two Mediterranean shores and new and different walls within the EU. The last part of the book looks at how walls and borders change as a result of cooperation between the communities on either side of them. The book takes on particular relevance in the present circumstances of the proliferation of walls between empires and states and within single states, but it also analyses processes of conflict and peace which come about as a result of walls. Contributors are: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Melania-Gabriela Ciot, Hastings Donnan, Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Alberto Gasparini, Maria Hadjipavlou, Max Haller, Neil Jarman, Thomas Lunden, Domenico Mogavero, Alejandro Palma, Dennis Soden.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction. Walls: Ways of Being, Ways of Functioning, Ways of Being Transformed / Alberto Gasparini

Walls Dividing, Walls Uniting: Peace in Fusion, Peace in Separation / Alberto Gasparini

Why Empires Build Walls: The New Iron Curtain Around the European Union / Max Haller

The Enlargement Process and the “Dividing Lines of Europe” / Melania-Gabriela Ciot

Are Walls a National Security Issue? A View from the United States-Mexico Border / Dennis Soden and Alejandro Palma

The Berlin Wall / Anneli Ute Gabanyi

Vatican City-Italy Wall: Consolidating Social and Political Peace / Domenico Mogavero

The “Crossings” along the Divide: The Cypriot Experience / Maria Hadjipavlou

Israel-Palestine: Concrete Fences and Fluid Borders / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti

Ordinary Everyday Walls: Normalising Exception in Segregated Belfast / Hastings Donnan and Neil Jarman

European Twin Cities: Models, Examples and Problems of Formal and Informal Co-operation / Thomas Lundén

Scenario for the New Town of Gorizia/Gorica / Alberto Gasparini

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004272859 DOI