Stopping the Killing : How Civil Wars End / Roy Licklider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Licklider, Roy, Author.

Contributor:

Licklider, Roy E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (International law).

Civil war.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Cambodia -- all provide bloody evidence that civil wars continue to have a powerful impact on the international scene. Because they tear at the very fabric of a society and pit countryman against countryman, civil wars are often the most brutal and difficult to extinguish -- witness the American Revolution. And yet, civil wars do inevitably end. England is no longer criss-crossed by warring armies representing York and Lancaster or King and Parliament. The French no longer kill one another over the divine right of kings. Argentines seem reconciled to living in a single state, rather than several. The ideologies of the Spanish Civil War now seem largely irrelevant. And the possibility of Southern secession is an issue long-buried in the American past. The question then begs itself: how do people who have been killing one another with considerable enthusiasm and success come together to form a common government? How can individuals and factions work together, politically and economically, with others who have killed their friends, parents, children and lovers? How are armed societies disarmed? What effect does a total military victory have on a lasting peace? In sum, how are civil societies constructed from civil violence and chaos? This is the central concern of Stopping the Killing.In this highly original and much needed volume, a distinguished group of experts on civil wars discuss both specific conflicts and broader theoretical issues. Individual chapters examine civil wars in Colombia, the Sudan, Yemen, America, Greece, and Nigeria, and analyze the causes of peace, the relationship between the battlefield and the negotiating table, and issues of settlement. An introduction and conclusion by the editor unify the volume. Contributors include: Jonathan Hartlyn (Univ. of North Carolina), Caroline Hartzell (Univ. of California, Davis), Jane E. Holl (U.S. Military Academy), John Iatrides (Southern Connecticut State University), James O'Connell (University of Bradford), Donald Rothchild (Univ. of California, Davis), Stephen John Stedman (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Robert Harrison Wagner (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Harvey Waterman (Rutgers Univ.), Manfred Wenner (Northern Illinois Univ.), and I. William Zartman (Johns Hopkins Univ.).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

ONE. How Civil Wars End: Questions and Methods

TWO. The Unfinished Agenda: Negotiating Internal Conflicts

THREE. Civil Violence and Conflict Resolution: The Case of Colombia

FOUR. The Peace Process in the Sudan, 1971-1972

FIVE. The Civil War in Yemen, 1962-1970

SIX. The End of the Zimbabwean Civil War

SEVEN. The End of the American Civil War

EIGHT. The Ending of the Nigerian Civil War: Victory, Defeat, and the Changing of Coalitions

NINE. The Doomed Revolution: Communist Insurgency in Postwar Greece

TEN. The Causes of Peace

ELEVEN. When War Doesn't Work: Understanding the Relationship between the Battlefield and the Negotiating Table

TWELVE. Political Order and the "Settlement'' of Civil Wars

THIRTEEN. What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here?

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-340) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-6542-4

OCLC:

782878025