Conflict prevention in practice : essays in honour of James Sutterlin / edited by Bertrand Ramcharan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sutterlin, James S., honouree.

Ramcharan, B. G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific settlement of international disputes.

Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

This book is truly unique in that it presents a series of cases in which conflict prevention efforts have been successful at the United Nations and in other international organizations. It presents detailed case studies of the methods used and the diplomacy applied to head off conflicts or to contain them swiftly. Some of the chapters are riveting in their details. The book is the first on conflict prevention as actually applied in practice. It gives a convincingly positive answer to the question: 'Does conflict prevention work in practice?'.It does! The book also contains up-to-date accounts of the policies and practices of early warning and preventive action in a series of international and regional organizations, including ASEAN, the African Union, IGAD and the United Nations. Practice is thus presented alongside evolving policies and programmes. The book deals not only with efforts to prevent conflicts but also to head off gross violations of human rights - an urgent challenge of our times. As Professor Paul Kennedy of Yale University writes in his Foreword, the excellent essays in this volume make it a truly valuable book. At a time when the United Nations is searching for the way forward, this book provides valuable leads for the practice of conflict prevention. It is essential reading for peace-builders, peacemakers and human rights practitioners.

Contents:

Foreword Paul Kennedy ;

Introduction B.G. Ramcharan ;

I. The Quiet Revolutionary: A Biographical Sketch of James S. Sutterlin Jean Krasnow ;

II. The United Nations and International Security B.G. Ramcharan ;

III. The Evolution of the Doctrine and Practice of Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in the United Nations System Tapio Kanninen and Chetan Kumar ;

IV. The Continental Early Warning System of the African Union B.G. Ramcharan ;

V. CEWARN: IGAD's Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism Douglas Bond and Patrick Meier ;

VI. The ASEAN Regional Forum and Conflict Prevention in Southeast and East Asia Robin Ramcharan ;

VII. International Conflict Prevention: Discreet Fact-Finding Mission to Bulgaria and Turkey (1989) B.G. Ramcharan ;

VIII. Preventive Peacekeeping Deployment: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1992) B.G. Ramcharan ;

IX. Internal Conflict Prevention: Observing Mass Action in South Africa (1992) B.G. Ramcharan ;

X. Internal Conflict Prevention: The UN Observer Mission to South Africa (UNOMSA) 1992 Angela King ;

XI. Preventing War between Eritrea and Yemen over the Hanish Islands (1996) B.G. Ramcharan ;

XII. Internal Conflict Mitigation and Containment of Terrorism: Panel of Eminent Persons to Algeria (1998) B.G. Ramcharan ;

XIII. Conflict Containment: The Security Council Mission to East Timor (1999) Peter van Walsum ;

XIV. Iran-Iraq, 1988: Was It Prevention? It Looks More So Today Giandomenico Picco ;

XV. How Good Offices Changed the Nature of the Border Dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria Jack Christofides ;

XVI. Burundi: Evolution of Conflict Prevention Approaches Yasser Sabra ;

XVII. The Human Rights Dimension: Human Rights and

Risk Analysis B.G. Ramcharan ;

XVIII. The Prevention of Gross Violations of Human Rights: Report of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (2000);

XIX. The Prevention of Racial Discrimination through Early Warning and Urgent Procedures Nathalie Prouvez ;

Conclusion B.G. Ramcharan ;

List of Contributors;

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-1496-9

OCLC:

607720330

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047414964 DOI