Growing recognition of the possibility of success, as well as of the cost of failure, has spurred a range of efforts to reform the practice of international peacebuilding, including the creation in 2005 of a new UN Peacebuilding Commission and its related mechanisms, a Secretariat Peacebuilding Support Office and a Peacebuilding Fund.However, both experience and […]
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Based on the study of every internationally negotiated civil war settlement between 1980 and 1998, this volume presents the most comprehensive effort to date to evaluate the role of international actors in peace implementation.It looks into promises made by combatants in peace agreements and examines when and why those promises are fulfilled. The authors differentiate […]
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When the Dayton peace agreement was signed in 1995, there were expectations among the signatories, the Bosnian population, and the international community alike that the pact would not only end conflict among Bosnia’s three armies, but also establish a political and social foundation for more robust peace. Recognizing that the latter goal—incorporating political reform and […]
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Although the idea of postconflict peacebuilding appeared to hold great promise after the end of the Cold War, within a very few years the opportunities for peacebuilding seemed to pale beside the obstacles to it.This volume examines the successes and failures of large-scale interventions to build peace in El Salvador, Cambodia, Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia […]
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Robert O. Mendelsohn, professor of forest policy and economics at Yale University, discusses the global forces creating unprecedented changes over the next few centuries,…
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