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Understanding Quality Peace - Peacebuilding After Civil War

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Zusatztext 'Quality peace is the only kind of peace that meets the true needs of those who have experienced the devastating effects of civil war. In this wide-ranging volume! expert researchers probe what can make quality peace effective and lasting.' -- Michael Doyle! Columbia University! USA 'Understanding Quality Peace gives us a new! useful concept by which to assess both peace agreements and post-war societies. The volume will be helpful to students and policymakers seeking to conceptualize and analyze sustainable peace.It answers a need to go beyond the "negative peace" of minimal stability! but not to unrealistically expect "positive peace" of egalitarian! wealthy consolidated democracy in places like Somalia and Haiti.' -- Charles T. Call! American University! USA?'This volume deepens our insights into the conditions after a peace agreement in civil wars. It takes up factors that that are proven to be conducive for preventing war recurrence. By analyzing five crucial dimensions in global work as well as through cases studies it focuses on the qualities that are required for sustaining peace. Thus! this book specifies the state of the art! stimulates further research and gives directions for peace making.' -- Anna Jarstad!Umeå University! Sweden'Based on decades of empirical evidence! clear case studies! and a well-rounded theoretical understanding the editors and authors in this volume break new ground that helps us transcend the binary notion of negative or positive peace. Understanding Quality Peace gives us an excellent platform! engaging for the practitioner and the theorist! that helps us shift toward evidence-based approaches to peacebuilding in the aftermath of war.' -- John Paul Lederach! Professor Emeritus! Kroc Institute! University of Notre Dame! USA'[T]he book presents a very practical approach to peacebuilding! engaging predominantly with the debate related to the critical assessment of the strategies and operational policies of international peacebuilders...Taking as a starting point Wallensteen's 2015 book! this edited book advances the discussion on quality peace! while elucidating some aspects that were previously unclear.'--Roberta Holanda Maschietto! University of Coimbra! International Peacekeeping Journal Informationen zum Autor Madhav Joshi is Research Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Peace Accords Matrix project at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA. Peter Wallensteen is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Notre Dame, USA. He is editor/author of many books, including, recently, Understanding Conflict Resolution (4th edition, 2015), Quality Peace: Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order (2015), and Regional Organisations and Peacemaking (co-editor, Routledge 2014). Klappentext This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of 'quality peace', and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies. Zusammenfassung This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ‘quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Madhav Joshi & Peter Wallensteen 1. Understanding Quality Peace: Introducing the Five Dimensions, Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen PART I: Post-War Security 2. Peace Implementation and Quality Peace, Terence Lyons 3. Same Peace – Different Quality? The Importance of Security Equality for Quality Peace, Louise Olsson PART II: Governance 4. Governance and negotiations: Whose quality standards?, Roger Mac Ginty 5. Approaches to Negotiations in Post-Civi...

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