Challenges to Peacebuilding

by Newman, Edward; Richmond, Oliver P.

• ISBN13: 9789280811261
• ISBN10: 9280811266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

Many ceasefires and peace agreements in civil conflict are initially unsuccessful. Some give way to renewed, and often escalating, violence. In other cases, peace processes have become lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare. Given the huge material and human costs of a failed peace process, the international community has a strong interest in helping these processes succeed.Challenges to Peacebuilding approaches this problem by focusing on "spoilers" -- groups and tactics that attempt to obstruct or undermine conflict settlement through a variety of means, including terrorism and violence. Drawing upon experience from Northern Ireland, the Basque region, Bosnia, Colombia, Israel-Palestine, Cyprus, the Caucasus, and Kashmir, it considers why spoilers and spoiling behavior emerge and how they can be addressed. This volume considers a broad range of actors as potential spoilers: not only rebel groups and insurgents, but also diasporas, governments, and other entities. It also demonstrates that ill-conceived or imposed peace processes can themselves sow the seeds of spoiling.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
List of acronyms	ix
Introduction. Obstacles to peace processes: Understanding spoiling	1	(20)
Edward Newman
Oliver Richmond
Part I: Spoiling, violence, and mediation	21	(130)
Internal and external dynamics of spoiling: A negotiation approach	23	(17)
Karin Aggestam
Understanding the violence of insiders: Loyalty, custodians of peace, and the sustainability of conflict settlement	40	(19)
Marie-Joelle Zahar
The linkage between devious objectives and spoiling behaviour in peace processes	59	(19)
Oliver Richmond
Terrorism as a tactic of spoilers in peace processes	78	(27)
Ekaterina Stepanova
Spoilers or catalysts? The role of diasporas in peace processes	105	(29)
Yossia Shain
Ravinatha P. Aryasinha
``New wars'' and spoilers	134	(17)
Edward Newman
Part II: Cases	151	(169)
Northern Ireland: A peace process thwarted by accidental spoiling	153	(20)
Roger Mac Ginty
Why do peace processes collapse? The Basque conflict and the three-spoilers perspective	173	(27)
Daniele Conversi
Peace on whose terms? War veterans' associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina	200	(19)
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Spoilers in Colombia: Actors and strategies	219	(23)
Carlo Nasi
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process: The strategic art of deception	242	(20)
Magnus Ranstorp
Spoiling peace in Cyprus	262	(20)
Nathalie Tocci
The Abkhazia and South Ossetia cases: Spoilers in a nearly collapsed peace process	282	(19)
George Khutsishvili
Spoilers and devious objectives in Kashmir	301	(19)
Jaideep Saikia
Index	320