Measuring Peace - Principles, Practices, and Politics

An essential and accessible guide to the assessment of the effectiveness of peace-building policies for all those working in, or studying, the area.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Conceptualizing Peace


• 2: From Conception to Practice


• 3: Assessing Progress


• 4: Factors of Post-Conflict Peace Stabilization


• 5: Measuring Peace Consolidation


• Conclusion

About the author

Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on international organizations and conflict management, specifically on post-conflict peace and state-building. He is the author of International Governance of War-Torn Territories (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the editor of Exit Strategies and State Building (OUP, 2012) and Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (OUP, 1996). He has served as a Specialist-Advisor to the Select Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons, a consultant to the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States.

Summary

An essential and accessible guide to the assessment of the effectiveness of peace-building policies for all those working in, or studying, the area.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Caplan, Richard (Professor of International Relati Caplan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2021
• EAN: 9780198867708
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886770-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations