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Author Elizabeth M. Cousens

Elizabeth M. Cousens

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  • Series 03-12-2007by Charles T. Call and Elizabeth M. Cousens

    Ending Wars and Building Peace

    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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  • Books 06-15-2003by Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild and Elizabeth M. Cousens, editors

    Ending Civil Wars: The Success and Failure of Negotiated Settlements in Civil War

    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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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Books 10-19-2001by Elizabeth M. Cousens and Charles K. Cater

    Toward Peace in Bosnia: Implementing the Dayton Accords

    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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    Peace Processes
  • Books 06-15-2000by Elizabeth M. Cousens and Chetan Kumar, editors with Karin Wermester

    Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies

    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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    Peacebuilding, State Fragility

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About the International Peace Institute

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