Preventing Violent Conflicts

Author : United Nations;World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464811865
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways for Peace written by United Nations;World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

Author : Michael S. Lund
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Violent Conflicts written by Michael S. Lund and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lund, an international relations consultant, defines early warning and preventive diplomacy, looking at which methods work and why, who uses them, and recent preventive efforts, and suggests how multilateral and national entities including the US government can overcome operational challenges to effective preventive action. He outlines a more systematic, global preventive regime that draws on the strengths of individual states, the UN, regional organizations, and NGOs. For students and scholars of international relations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter Wallensteen
Publisher : Department of Peace and Conflict Research Uppsala Univeristy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Violent Conflicts written by Peter Wallensteen and published by Department of Peace and Conflict Research Uppsala Univeristy. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence S. Woocher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Violent Conflict written by Lawrence S. Woocher and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New wars will continue to erupt if greater and smarter efforts are not made to prevent them. Current dangers stem from factors such as rise of unstable regimes, global economic turbulence, climate change, and shift in global power distribution. Preventing relapse after wars end is insufficient to prevent most new conflicts, because post-conflict recurrences constitute only a minority of all conflict outbreaks. A wide range of governments, including United States, and many intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations have made commitments to take serious efforts to prevent violent conflicts. These commitments represent a more than adequate normative foundation and a supportive political environment for development of more effective conflict prevention strategies.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861928658
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Violent Conflict:. written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary B. Anderson
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781588268761
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opting Out of War written by Mary B. Anderson and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ordinary people, neither pacifists nor peace activists, come to decide collectively to eschew violent conflict and then develop strategies for maintaining their region as a nonwar area despite myriad pressures to the contrary?Mary Anderson and Marshall Wallace analyze the experiences of thirteen nonwar communities that made conscious-and effective-choices not to engage in the fighting that surrounded them. Tracing the steps that these communities took, the strategies that evolved in each setting in response to local circumstances, the authors find lessons, as well, with broader relevance for international efforts to prevent violent conflict.

Author : Chandra Lekha Sriram
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588261120
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Promise to Practice written by Chandra Lekha Sriram and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264059814
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Fragility Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse The Future of Conflict Early Warning and Response written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on literature review and inputs from surveyed agencies, this book assesses the value and role of early warning for the prevention of violent conflict and identifies the most effective systems.

Author : Courtney J. Fung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378632
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Paths and Policies towards Conflict Prevention written by Courtney J. Fung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discourse on conflict prevention and peacebuilding by bringing together researchers from China and Switzerland over a series policy dialogues. The Charter of the United Nations, adopted in the immediate aftermath of World War II, is clear about the fundamental necessity for the international community to act in partnership to prevent violent conflict. Given recent shifts in global power dynamics, there is an apparent need for international policy issues to be addressed in ways that are inclusive of a wider variety of perspectives and approaches. Chinese policy actors are increasingly interested in fostering their own discourse on issues of prevention and peacebuilding, rooted in Chinese experience, and engaging with peers from other contexts. The chapters in this volume explore the rationale for conflict prevention and review prevailing academic and practitioner discourses on fundamental questions such as the rationales for why conflicts should be prevented and whether ‘mainstream approaches’ are still relevant. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, Chinese politics, and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/New-Paths-and-Policies-towards-Conflict-Prevention-Chinese-and/Fung-Gehrmann-Madenyika-Tower/p/book/9780367683368, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745686958
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Deadly Conflict written by I. William Zartman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system. So how does prevention work when it works, and what can be done when tried and tested practices fail? In this book, I. William Zartman offers a clear and authoritative guide to the key challenges of conflict prevention and the norms, processes and methods used to dampen and diffuse inter and intra-state conflict in the contemporary world. Early-stage techniques including awareness de-escalation, stalemate, ripening, and resolution, are explored in full alongside the late or crisis stage techniques of interruption, separation and integration. Prevention, he argues, is a battle that is never won: there is always more work to be done. The search for prevention - necessary but still imperfect - continues into new imperatives, new mechanisms, new agents, and new knowledge, which this book helps discover and apply.