Breaking Cycles of Violence

by Leatherman,Janie

• ISBN13: 9781565490918
• ISBN10: 1565490916
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-07
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

* Offers strategies for conflict transformation, based on a "conflict prevention toolbox," which deals with all aspects of the conflict cycle * Burundi and Macedonia make powerful case studies Breaking Cycles of Violencestudies how the international community, working with local partners, can effectively pinpoint key breaking points and target resources for societies at risk of violent conflict. This book provides policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students with a framework for recognizing and tackling the complexities of internal and intrastate conflicts in order to avert violence and mass human suffering. It presents guidelines for using early warning indicators to assess the causes of conflict; using preventative action to contain it; and using multidimensional strategies to rehabilitate societies through the cycle of post-conflict peacebuilding.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Preface	ix
PART 1 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The Priority of Acting Preventively	3	(24)
Organizing for Proactive Intervention	27	(24)
The Early Warning Toolbox: Cues from Background Conditions	51	(22)
Crossing Thresholds: Mechanisms of Conflict Escalation	73	(22)
Keeping Closed the Gates of War: The Peace Potential of Preventive Action	95	(30)
PART 2 CASES STUDIES
The Shock of the Familiar: Discerning Patterns in Burundi's Cycles of Ethnic Violence	125	(24)
Preventing Conflict in Macedonia: A Lasting Peace or a Line in the Sand?	149	(32)
PART 3 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Inventive Diplomacy: Policy Recommendations for Early Warning and Conflict Prevention	181	(38)
References	219	(22)
Index	241	(16)
About the Authors	257