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Author Chandra Lekha Sriram

Chandra Lekha Sriram

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  • Books 06-15-2003by Chandra Lekha Sriram and Karin Wermester, editors

    From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict

    How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field?The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in this book offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges […]

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    Multilateral System, Violent Extremism
  • Policy Papers 07-15-2002by Albrecht Schnabel, Augustine Toure, Chandra Lekha Sriram and John Packer

    Sharing Best Practices on Conflict Prevention: The UN, Regional and Subregional Organizations, National and Local Actors

    The UN does not act alone in conflict prevention. It is important for the UN to identify other actors with comparative advantages in certain aspects of conflict prevention, and to partner wisely with them.

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    Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 01-14-2002by Chandra Lekha Sriram

    From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict

    A report from the Project on Prevention, drawing out central lessons for the UN and other preventive actors from case studies on Kenya, Fiji, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Burundi, Georgia, East Timor, Liberia, and Colombia.

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    Violent Extremism
  • Books 06-01-2001by Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram, editors

    Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century

    This special volume of International Peacekeeping, was largely written by a diverse group of younger scholars.The work examines the conflicts of the 1990s and suggests new approaches and tools for conflict management in the new millennium. The topics covered by this special issue include the paradoxical similarities between war and peace, the role of natural […]

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  • Meeting Notes 05-14-2001Chandra Lekha Sriram, rapporteur

    From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict

    A report on a workshop held at West Point, NY on February 9-10, 2001, in light of the anticipated report of the UN Secretary-General on conflict prevention.Download

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