Understanding Conflict Resolution : War, Peace and the Global System

by Wallensteen, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780761966678
• ISBN10: 0761966676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This thoroughly revised edition of Peter Wallensteen's text provides a comprehensive guide to understanding conflict resolution in the contemporary global environment. Understanding Conflict Resolution draws on recent and classic research from around the world, linking the theory of conflict resolution to in-depth case studies throughout. This new edition has been brought fully up to date with coverage of the ongoing 'war on terror', as well as events in Sudan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xiii
Preface	xv
Part One The Problem and How to Approach It
Understanding Conflict Resolution	3	(10)
Peacemaking as a New Experience	3	(2)
Peace Research and Conflict Resolution	5	(3)
Defining Conflict Resolution	8	(2)
Limits of Conflict Resolution	10	(2)
Outlining this Book	12	(1)
Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements	13	(20)
The Concept of Conflict	13	(4)
Identifying Armed Conflict	17	(6)
Three projects	17	(3)
The Michigan and Hamburg projects	20	(3)
Trends in Armed Conflicts	23	(5)
The Uppsala Conflict Data Project	23	(3)
Patterns of armed conflict	26	(2)
Outcomes of Armed Conflict	28	(5)
Approaching Conflict Resolution	33	(28)
The Evolution of Conflict Analysis	33	(1)
Focusing on Conflict Dynamics	34	(5)
Focusing on Basic Needs	39	(5)
Focusing on Rational Calculations	44	(6)
Synthesizing Conflict Resolution	50	(7)
Refining the definition	50	(3)
Transcending incompatibility: seven mechanisms	53	(4)
Identifying Key Elements in Conflict Analysis	57	(4)
Analysing Conflict Resolution	61	(26)
Basic and Complex Levels of Analysis	61	(1)
The Role of the State	62	(8)
Actors in conflict	62	(1)
The special roles of the state	63	(3)
The global system	66	(4)
Introducing the Trichotomy of Conflict	70	(6)
Locating conflicts in the trichotomy	74	(2)
Applying the Trichotomy of Conflict and Peace	76	(11)
Armed conflict since the Cold War	76	(3)
Peace agreements since the Cold War	79	(8)
Part Two Basics of Conflict Resolution
The Resolution of Conflicts between States	87	(44)
Armed Conflict and Peace Accords between States	87	(9)
The last decades of the Cold War	87	(3)
The post-Cold War period	90	(3)
Geopolitik, Realpolitik, Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik	93	(3)
Conflict Resolution: Geopolitik and Realpolitik	96	(17)
Status quo or status quo ante bellum?	97	(5)
Punitive or integrative solutions?	102	(5)
The seven mechanisms	107	(6)
Conflict Resolution: Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik	113	(14)
Idealpolitik and the settlement of conflicts	114	(5)
Peacemaking and Kapitalpolitik	119	(4)
The seven mechanisms	123	(4)
Conclusions for Interstate Conflict Resolution	127	(4)
Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars	131	(32)
Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords within States	131	(8)
Civil wars during and after the Cold War	131	(3)
Peace agreements in civil wars	134	(5)
Dealing with Incompatibilities over State Power	139	(5)
Democracy and the Settlement of Civil Wars	144	(4)
Dealing with the Internal Security Dilemma	148	(8)
State Failure and State Reconstruction	156	(3)
Civil Society in Internal Conflict Resolution	159	(4)
Conflict Resolution in State Formation Conflicts	163	(40)
State Formation Conflicts	163	(12)
State formation conflicts during the Cold War	164	(4)
State formation conflicts after the Cold War	168	(3)
Peace agreements in the post-Cold War era	171	(4)
Identity Discrimination and Conflict Resolution	175	(6)
Autonomy and Federalism: Territorial Solutions within a State	181	(9)
Independence with or without Integration	190	(6)
State Formation Conflicts and Democracy	196	(7)
Part Three Complexities in Conflict Resolution
Conflict Complexes and Conflict Resolution	203	(28)
Identifying Regional Conflict Complexes	203	(7)
Regional conflicts since the Cold War	204	(2)
Approaching regional conflicts	206	(4)
Regional Conflict and the Organizing of Regions	210	(8)
Regional frameworks	210	(4)
The limits of intra-regional frameworks	214	(1)
Extra-regional approaches to regional conflicts	215	(1)
Regional security after war	216	(2)
Major Powers and Conflict Complexes	218	(9)
Major powers in regional conflicts	218	(3)
Armed conflicts in major powers	221	(1)
Major powers and global conflict	222	(5)
Global Dimensions of Conflict Resolution	227	(4)
The United Nations In Conflict Resolution	231	(32)
The UN in Peace Agreements	231	(2)
Collective Security	233	(6)
The UN Charter	233	(3)
UN institutions	236	(3)
The Security Council in Conflict Resolution	239	(13)
Agenda setting	242	(4)
World regions	246	(2)
The permanent members	248	(4)
UN Action and Peace Agreements	252	(11)
Sanctions	252	(3)
Peacekeeping operations	255	(3)
Peace enforcement	258	(5)
International Communities in Conflict Resolution	263	(34)
The New Communities	263	(8)
UN-focused communities	264	(2)
Value- and power focused communities	266	(5)
Early Action and Conflict Prevention	271	(9)
Examples of conflict prevention	272	(3)
Predicting escalation	275	(5)
Third Parties and Mediation	280	(6)
Entering a conflict	281	(2)
Approaches to mediation	283	(3)
Structural Changes and Peaceful Conflict	286	(7)
Undoing the effects of war	286	(1)
Reducing access to arms	287	(1)
Tackling the territorial issues	288	(1)
Developing democratic institutions	289	(2)
Finding new state structures	291	(1)
Assessing the role of power	292	(1)
Between the International Community and Pax Americana	293	(4)
Notes	297	(4)
References	301	(10)
Index	311