Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies: Sustaining the Peace

by Mason; T. David

• ISBN13: 9780415702133
• ISBN10: 0415702135
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of 9-11, our understanding of conflict and conflict resolution has to include consideration of the conditions conducive to sustaining the peace in nations torn by civil war or interstate conflict. First, whereas wars between sovereign nations had dominated international politics for the previous 300 years, civil wars within nations - revolutions, secessionist wars, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism - have become the most frequent and deadly forms of armed conflict since the end of World War II. Second, the Third World - Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East - has become the site of most of the armed conflict in last half century. Third, not only has civil war become the dominant conflict modality in the international community but once it occursin a nation, it is highly likely to recur at some time in the future. Fourth, while the end of the Cold War has not significantly diminished the frequency and destructiveness of war, the international community has compiled an unprecedented record of mediating peaceful settlements to a number of protracted conflicts in the Third World. These trends define a new agenda for the international community in the new century: how do we sustain the peace in nations previously torn by civil war? Each of the chapters here analyzes the prospects for building a sustainable peace from a number of different perspectives, examining: the role of economic development, democratization, respect for human rights, the potential for renewal of conflict, the United Nations, and other critical topics. In an age when 'nation-building' is once again on the international agenda, and scholars as well as policymakers realize both the tremendous costs and benefits in fostering developed, democratic, peaceful and secure nations,the time has truly come for a book that integrates all the facets of this important subject.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
List of abbreviations	xiv
Introduction: sustaining the peace in the aftermath of conflict	1	(10)
James D. Meernik
T. David Mason
PART I Conflict prevention: working toward ``negative'' peace	11	(94)
Sustaining the peace: stopping the recurrence of civil wars	13	(18)
T. David Mason
Jason Quinn
Structuring the peace: negotiated settlements and the construction of conflict management institutions	31	(22)
Caroline A. Hartzell
Reconstructing strife-torn societies: third party peacebuilding in intrastate disputes	53	(28)
Mark J. Mullenbach
The OSCE's approach to conflict prevention and post-conflict rehabilitation	81	(24)
Bruce George
Anthony McGee
PART II Peacebuilding: working toward positive peace in post-conflict societies	105	(167)
Paths to peacebuilding: the transformation of peace operations	107	(23)
Paul F. Diehl
Can liberal intervention build liberal democracy?	130	(19)
Mark Peceny
Jeffrey Pickering
Just the good, no bad and ugly? The regional impact of externally imposed democracy	149	(11)
Andrew J. Enterline
J. Michael Greig
The use of military force to promote human rights	160	(16)
James D. Meernik
Steven C. Poe
Erum Shaikh
Can truth reconcile divided nations?	176	(20)
James L. Gibson
Violence, participation, and democratic norms: prospects for democratic consolidation in post-conflict Central America	196	(23)
John A. Booth
Patricia Bayer Richard
Post-conflict economic development and sustaining the peace	219	(20)
Seonjou Kang
The economics of sustaining the peace: Breaking the Conflict Trap -- civil war and development policy	239	(22)
Constance V. Elliott
V. Lani Elliott
Conclusion	261	(11)
James D. Meernik
T. David Mason
Index	272