Peace studies and conflict resolution Books
NIAS Press Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political
Book SynopsisThe peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambodia's dark period of civil war and genocide have not brought the democracy and reconstruction that was hoped for. Political stability has emerged but seemingly only at the expense of democracy. Moreover, reconstruction efforts appear to be at odds with processes of liberal democratization.This volume (written by a broad mix of Khmer and non-Khmer researchers) is the first study to assess the post-conflict democratization and reconstruction process in Cambodia in a systematic and in-depth empirical way. In going beyond a one-dimensional view of democracy, the full complexity of this process is illuminated and an assessment is made about the viability of such post-conflict strategies elsewhere round the globe.Table of ContentsBeyond Democracy in Cambodia (Joakim Ojendal and Mona Lilja); Reconstructing Legitimate Political Authority through Elections? (Caroline Hughes); The Judicial System and Democratization (Kheang Un); Decentralization as a Strategy for State Reconstruction (Kim Sedara and Joakim Ojendal); Globalization, Women's Political Participation and the Politics of Legitimacy and Reconstruction (Mona Lilja); The Political Economy of Aid and Regime Legitimacy (Sophal Ear); (Re) creating Local Political Legitimacy Through Governance Intervention? (Malin Hasselskog); Cambodian Religion since 1989 (John Marston); Re-establishing Legitimacy through the 'Extraordinary Chambers' in the Courts of Cambodia (Laura McGrew); The Never-Ending Hunt for Political Legitimacy in a Post-Conflict Cambodia (Mona Lilja and Joakim Ojendal).
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NIAS Press East-West Reflections on Demonization: North
Book SynopsisAlthough the rapid spread worldwide of the coronavirus in 2020 focused minds everywhere on the dangers of a global pandemic, other dangers facing the world have not diminished. Failure to resolve issues relating to the divided Korean peninsula is one of these. Great concern has long been expressed in several quarters about the behavior and ambitions of the reclusive North Korean regime. Often it is presented in Western media as an especially brutal dictatorship whose aggressive expansionist dreams pose a threat to world peace. Others question this one-dimensional picture and argue that a process of selective demonization is at work. In this thoughtful volume, 18 engaged scholars from Asia, the United States and Europe with first-hand knowledge about and experiences in Korea, North and South, share their insights and suggestions with concerned readers worldwide. They strive to get beyond the everyday rhetoric clouding the situation and address the demonization issue, exploring its different aspects from Western and Eastern perspectives. Their approach is to treat the Korean conflict as a multidimensional problem, with historical roots, cross-cultural and political-ideological perspectives, and not least with consequences far beyond the region where it takes place. North Korea is not the only country in the cross-hairs of heavyweight media organizations. The intensifying great power struggle between China and the United States is being played out on television, online and in the print media of both countries and beyond. The volume thus concludes by drawing into its consideration this developing conflict in which the two Koreas play a minor, almost bystander role. As such, as well as providing engaged readers with a more nuanced treatment of the issues, this collection offers important insights to journalists, officials and decision-makers around the world.
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NIAS Press East-West Reflections on Demonization: North
Book SynopsisAlthough the rapid spread worldwide of the coronavirus in 2020 focused minds everywhere on the dangers of a global pandemic, other dangers facing the world have not diminished. Failure to resolve issues relating to the divided Korean peninsula is one of these. Great concern has long been expressed in several quarters about the behavior and ambitions of the reclusive North Korean regime. Often it is presented in Western media as an especially brutal dictatorship whose aggressive expansionist dreams pose a threat to world peace. Others question this one-dimensional picture and argue that a process of selective demonization is at work. In this thoughtful volume, 18 engaged scholars from Asia, the United States and Europe with first-hand knowledge about and experiences in Korea, North and South, share their insights and suggestions with concerned readers worldwide. They strive to get beyond the everyday rhetoric clouding the situation and address the demonization issue, exploring its different aspects from Western and Eastern perspectives. Their approach is to treat the Korean conflict as a multidimensional problem, with historical roots, cross-cultural and political-ideological perspectives, and not least with consequences far beyond the region where it takes place. North Korea is not the only country in the cross-hairs of heavyweight media organizations. The intensifying great power struggle between China and the United States is being played out on television, online and in the print media of both countries and beyond. The volume thus concludes by drawing into its consideration this developing conflict in which the two Koreas play a minor, almost bystander role. As such, as well as providing engaged readers with a more nuanced treatment of the issues, this collection offers important insights to journalists, officials and decision-makers around the world.
£22.79
New Era Publications International APS How to Resolve Conflicts
Book SynopsisIt seems that people often have trouble getting along together. Families argue, neighbors come to blows, countries lob weapons at each other. Is this the way it has to be? Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and others say it is. Having observed a long history of man's quarrelsome behavior, they claim that man has animal instincts, or that he is antisocial and violent by his very nature. In truth, man is rather peaceful. But he can be driven, individually and collectively, to hatred and violence. In researching the causes of violence, L. Ron Hubbard unearthed a fundamental and natural law of human relations which explains why conflicts between people are so often difficult to remedy. And he provided an immensely valuable tool that enables one to resolve any conflict, be it between neighbors, co-workers or even countries. In this chapter, you will discover how to help others resolve their differences and restore peaceable relations. Peace and harmony between men can be more than just a dream. Widespread application of this law will make it a reality.
£5.35
Peeters Publishers Studying War-No More?: From Just War to Just
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Nordic African Institute Critical Factors in The Horn of Africa's Raging Conflicts
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Nordic Africa Institute Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding
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£11.00
United Nations The global reported arms trade: transparency in
Book SynopsisThe United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is publishing this paper on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. It aims to provide guidance in support of Member State participation in the Register. The text includes an overview of the Register for reference by Governments and the interested public, as well as original material to guide national points of contact in preparing and submitting reports for the Register. The second part of the paper contains the report of the 2022 Group of Governmental Experts on the continuing operation of the Register
£22.46
United Nations Rethinking unconstrained military spending
Book SynopsisThis publication addresses the issue of military spending from various angles by examining the impact of military expenditures on security; the relationship between military spending and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the importance of gender perspectives in rethinking unconstrained military spending; and lessons learned from economic conversion movements. It has been published in support of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Secretary-General's Agenda for Disarmament to encourage renewed research and analysis on the relationship between military spending and economic and social development.
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United Nations Civil society and disarmament 2022: B Flat, B
Book SynopsisLaunched in 2019, the #Youth4Disarmament (Y4D) initiative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) seeks to engage, educate and empower young people to facilitate their meaningful contribution to disarmament efforts. The 'Spotlight Stories' section of the Y4D community website (https://www.youth4disarmament.org/youth_spotlight) offers a space for young people to share - in their own voices and from their own perspectives - why the work of disarmament is critical to building peace and how they are helping push the field forward. This compilation of stories reveals the hope for a better future shared by members of the largest generation in history, and it shows some of the diverse ways they are finding to pursue peace through disarmament in the twenty-first century
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United Nations Civil society and disarmament 2014
Book SynopsisIn recent years, non-governmental organisations and other members of civil society have had an ever greater impact on the international agenda. Four delegates from Australia, Costa Rica, Japan, and Mexico, and who worked at the United Nations, share their personal views on the impact civil society stakeholders have had in matters relating to disarmament and arms control.
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United Nations University Building Sustainable Peace
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on creating a sustainable peace as opposed to winning the peace. It is comprised of fifteen papers, which examine and discuss various dimensions of the peace-building and post-conflict reconciliation process. Authored by academics, policy advisors, practitioners and members of the public at large, the papers address issues such as factors that have contributed to the process of resolving civil wars and reconciling divided societies, the different techniques used in the peace-building process, the role of various nongovernmental actors and regional organisations, and the experiences of peace-building efforts in different regions of the world.
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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd India in the United Nations: Interplay of
Book SynopsisIndia in the United Nations: Interplay of Interests and Principles presents a holistic and systematic understanding of India’s long and rich association with the United Nations (UN) ever since it was established nearly 75 years ago. It examines notable patterns and phases of India’s role in the UN and focuses on key areas of contemporary relevance where India’s diplomatic efforts were at play. These include the India–Pakistan conflicts as well as other regional conflicts in the context of new threats to security, peacekeeping operations, countering international terrorism, protection of human rights, development diplomacy, internet governance and the question of enlargement of the Security Council. This book offers glimpses of India’s persistence in framing its priorities and strategies for securing moral, legal and political endorsement in line with the established principles of the UN. The insights from these cumulative experiences of the present and previous governments are pertinent to crafting India’s future global role. Trade Review"This work stands out for the clarity of analysis and wide coverage of issues that are at the heart of India’s seven-decade-plus multilateral record." -- The Telegraph, 20 November 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction to India at the United Nations Limitations of Consistency, 1945–89 Pragmatic Conservatism during the Unipolar 1990s Opportunities and Obstacles for India at the UN in the New Century India’s Aspiration for Permanent Seat in the Security Council India’s Experiences as Elected Member of the Security Council India’s Expectations and Experiences in the UN Peacekeeping Operations India–Pakistan Conflict: A Test Case for the UN India against International Terrorism at the UN Contemporary Development Discourse and Diplomacy of India at the UN India’s Human Rights Record at the UN India’s Approach to Multilateral Governance of Internet Conclusion: Aligning Interests with Principles Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury India Thinking Nonviolence
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Pentagon Press Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Book SynopsisThis book is a result of research undertaken on the subject by the scholars associated with the IDSA project on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) - also known as Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) - which includes both the so-called “Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)” and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). This was legally a part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, which acceded to India in October 1947.The authors of this book seek to provide a critical analysis of the politics of the above mentioned two regions within PoK; throw light on the genesis and evolution of various political parties and interest groups, and acquaint the readers with different personalities playing important role in politics therein. The main aim of the publication is to help the scholars, analysts, and policy-makers to understand the dynamics of the political systems in PoK, the complex interaction of these systems with the government in Islamabad and the responses of the local leadership to Pakistan’s strategy of keeping them under strict control in the name of representative governance over the last 70 years.
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Pentagon Press India's Foreign Policy Towards Resurgence
Book SynopsisThe primary role of a nation’s foreign policy is the maintenance and preservation of National Interest. How a nation conceives its national interest and seeks to protect and promote it through its foreign policy must hence be a matter of public importance and discourse.This book expounds upon the various facets of India’s foreign policy, tracing its roots from the times of Chanakya, millennia ago, and then expanding upon the post-independence phase of India’s foreign policy. Chanakya is credited with crafting perhaps the very first treatise on statecraft, sometime in the fourth century BCE. India thus has a rich legacy in dealing with foreign powers towards the furtherance of national interest.Post independence, India’s foreign policy was crafted by its first prime minister and since then has evolved over the last seven decades, maintaining at one level a distinct continuum even as it transferred from one Government to the other. A new zest has however been given to India’s foreign policy over the last four years, and a transformation is visible in multiple ways, though the core remains the same. The transformation is visible in the uncompromising firmness shown on issues related to the nation`s integrity and honour and in that sense, it has become a bold, proactive, innovative and ambitious foreign policy with ‘Samman, Samvad, Samriddhi, Suraksha, Sanskriti evam Sabyatha’ being the driving forces behind India’s global engagement. There is today a greater expectation of India’s role in the world, as reflected by India emerging as a natural participant in several regional and global discourses. Another important transformation has been the rekindling and strengthening of India’s linkages with its diaspora, cooperation in the field of counter terrorism, emphasis on the neighbourhood with significant progress taking place in terms of physical and cultural connectivity and on a renewed economic vigour.This book brings out the dynamics in play in India’s foreign policy and offers a holistic understanding of the factors which have shaped its growth. Covering a vast swathe, it delves on India’s strategic culture and security concerns, economic growth, soft power, and relations with the neighbourhood and the world.
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Central European University Press The War in Ukraine’s Donbas: Origins, Contexts,
Book SynopsisThis collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013–2020. Giving voice to different social groups, scholarly communities and agencies relevant to Ukraine’s recent history, The War in Ukraine's Donbas goes beyond simplistic media interpretations that limit the analysis to Vladimir Putin and Russian aims to annex Ukraine. Instead, the authors identify the deeper roots linked to the autonomy and history of Donbas as a region. The contributions explore local society and traditions and the alienation from Ukraine caused by the events of Euromaidan, which saw the removal of the Donetsk-based president Viktor Yanukovych. Other chapters address the refugee crisis, the Minsk Accords in 2014 and the impact of the new president Volodymyr Zelensky and his efforts to bring the war to an end by negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany. The book concludes with four proposals for a durable peace in Donbas: territorial power-sharing; the conversion of rebels into legitimate political parties; amnesty for all participants of the armed conflict; and a transitional period of several years until political institutions are fully re-established.Trade Review"Overall, this book offers food for thought on a number of important issues relevant to understanding developments in the Donbas and their wider consequences. It is eminently accessible in a way which will make it of interest to more general readers as well as scholars and students of international relations, law and history. Although focused upon the Donbas region in the period prior to the start of the much greater conflict in Ukraine as a whole in 2022, many of the observations carry wider relevance in making sense of the current war." http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/115885/1/usappblog_2022_07_03_book_review_the_war_in_ukraines_donbas_origins.pdf -- Gary Wilson * LSE Review of Books *"It is here that Marples’s gifts for editing such a collection shine through. As the book’s title promises, the origins and contexts of the Donbas conflict are elucidated, and the final chapter effectively brings the work to a close by offering possible futures and a better state of peace for all involved—via a negotiated settlement based on power sharing, deployment of peacekeepers and election monitors, amnesty for combatants, and establishment of a truth commission." https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/reviews/12874234/mcintosh-marples-war-ukraines-donbas-origins-contexts-and-future -- Scott McIntosh * H-War *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements David R. Marples, Introduction William Jay Risch, Prelude to War? The Maidan and Its Enemies in the Donbas Alina Cherviatsova, Hybrid War and Hybrid Law: Minsk Agreements in the Context of International Law and Ukrainian Legislation Kimitaka Matsuzato, The First Four Years of the Donetsk People’s Republic: The Differentiating Elites and Surkov’s Political Technologists Oksana Mikheieva, Motivations of Pro-Russian and Pro-Ukrainian Combatants in the Context of the Russian Military Intervention in the Donbas Nataliia Stepaniuk, Limited Statehood, Collective Action, and Reconfiguration of Citizenship in Wartime: Volunteer Engagement Amidst the Donbas War Ernest Gyidel, Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons and the Future of Donbas Oleksandr Melnyk, War Dead and (Inter)-Communal Ethics in the Russian-Ukrainian Borderlands: 2014–2018 Alla Hurska, Russia's Hybrid Strategy in the Sea of Azov: Divide and Antagonize Sergey Sukhankin, Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas: Rehearsing Future Voyages Serhiy Kudelia, Civil War Settlements and Conflict Resolution in the Donbas List of Contributors Index
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Reflections On Conflict Resolution: In The Middle
Book SynopsisWhat does the future hold for humanity in these uncertain times? While living in a battered, conflicted, and unstable global reality, it seems difficult to imagine a less embroiled reality.Reflections on Conflict Resolution offers hope that there might be ways to resolve, or at least mitigate, even complex, violent, and protracted conflicts between communities and nations. This volume presents the state of the art in a decade-long analysis of conflict resolution in the Middle East and beyond.The 15 articles by the author and his co-authors contain policy ideas, dilemmas, research, and analysis: dealing with social media and peacemaking as well as with negotiating climate politics; transcending from grappling with Anti-Semitism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution; and analyzing the negotiations that led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as Israeli-Arab peacemaking.The book is an essential reading for anyone interested in either conflict resolution, negotiations, peacebuilding, history, politics or the Middle East, be it an academician, a practitioner, a politician, a civil society activist, a student or an insatiable knowledge seeker.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Globalisation and Local Conflicts in Africa and
Book SynopsisThis edited book is written by six authors from Asia and Africa. The individual authors focus on their own country's case or cases that they have been working on. The book features local conflicts in six countries in Asia and Africa and identifies how the local conflicts are affected by the forces of globalization. Cases include Nigeria's oil-related conflicts, the Democratic Republic of Congo's timber conflicts, continuing instability in Mozanbique, Thailand's conflict with regard to AIDS medicine, Myanmar's local conflicts after its reforms, and the Afghanistan’s conflicts over minerals. From these diverse case studies, the book examines how globalization and international politics affect local politics and conflicts, and vice versa. Even seemingly internal conflicts are shown to be significantly influenced by globalization forces and to create new dynamism in local politics. While there are other books that explore globalization and conflicts, many of them are conceptually organized with a small number of case studies. The present volume examines local conflicts in relation to globalization and demonstrates how structural inequality vis-a-vis weak stateness and statehood are significantly affected by global political economy.Table of Contents1. Introduction Yukiko Nishikawa 2. Globalization and the Nation-State in Africa and Asia Yukiko Nishikawa Part I Globalization and Local Conflict in Africa 3. Energy Security and the Paradox of Global Peacebuilding Interventions in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Tubodenyefa Zibima 4. International Policies and Illegal Logging Exploitation Sustaining Local Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo Bosakaibo Bomino Georges 5. The Politics and Political Economy of Violent Conflicts in Post-War Mozambique Manuel Francisco Sambo Part II Globalization and Local Conflict in Asia 6. Local Conflicts in Post-Reform Myanmar Yukiko Nishikawa 7. Battles on AIDS Drugs in Thailand Benjamas Nillsuwan 8. Afghanistan and the Curse of Resources: Taliban’s Greed-based Jihad in the Heart of Asia Mohammad Reza Qasemi 9. Conclusion Yukiko Nishikawa
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rohingya Camp Narratives: Tales From the ‘Lesser
Book SynopsisThis book presents thirteen chapters which probe the “tales less told” and “pathways less traveled” in refugee camp living. Rohingya camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 supply these “tales” and “pathways”. They dwell upon/reflect camp violence, sexual/gender discrimination, intersectionality, justice, the sudden COVID camp entry, human security, children education, innovation, and relocation plans. Built largely upon field trips, these narratives interestingly interweave with both theoretical threads (hypotheses) and tapestries (net-effects), feeding into the security-driven pulls of political realism, or disseminating from humanitarian-driven socioeconomic pushes, but mostly combining them. Post-ethnic cleansing and post-exodus windows open up a murky future for Rohingya and global refugees. We learn of positive offshoots (of camp innovations exposing civil society relevance) and negative (like human and sex trafficking beyond Bangladeshi and Myanmar borders), as of navigating (a) local–global linkages of every dynamic and (b) fast-moving current circumstances against stoic historical leftovers. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Forget-me-nots From Rohingya Camps: Dark Experiences & Tales not Told.- 2. Ethnicity, Identity, & Rohingya Security: At the ‘Olive-tree’-‘Lexus’ Crossroads.- 3. Rohingya Conundrum: Cutting the Gordian Knot.- 4. The Political Economy of Religion & Security: Tracing Rohingya Camp Violence.- 5. From Disorganized Hypocrisy to Political Neo-medievalism? Rohingya Crises in Bangladesh.- 6. Identity ‘Intersectionality’ & Cox’s Bazaar Refugees: Remaking Rohingyas.- 7. Sexual/Gender Camp Violence & Institutional Response Limits: Rohingyas in Bangladesh.- 8. Return, Citizenship, & Justice in the Eye of Rohingya Women: Imagined Terrain?.- 9. Vulnerability & Humanitarian Emergencies: Fate of Rohingya Women amid COVID—19.- 10. Rohingya Refugees & Human Security: Foreign Policy Reform Needs.- 11. Rohingya Refugee-camp Innovations: Reinvigorating Humanitarianism.- 12. Rohingya Refugee & Classroom Children: Cultivating A Lost Generation.- 13. Rohingya Refugee Future: History, Memory, & Relocation.- 14. Conclusion: Squaring the Circle.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Die japanischen Premierminister und ihre
Book SynopsisDieses Buch konzentriert sich auf das Leben und die Friedensphilosophie der japanischen Premierminister von 1945 bis heute und versucht, eine einheitliche politische Philosophie herauszuarbeiten, nämlich die "Friedensphilosophie", die Japans Außen- und Verteidigungspolitik durchweg beeinflusst hat. Dieses Buch erforscht die Metaerzählung der internationalen Beziehungen und der Politik und liefert eine neue Metaanalyse der Faktoren, die der japanischen Politik zugrunde liegen, und bietet einen zeitgemäßen Einblick in einen der mächtigsten und zugleich rätselhaftesten Akteure Asiens in einer Zeit des Wandels. Dieses Buch wird für Wissenschaftler im Bereich der internationalen Beziehungen, für diejenigen, die Asien im Wandel beobachten, und für Journalisten von Interesse sein.Table of Contents1. Einleitung: Eine Studie über die Premierminister im Nachkriegsjapan.- 2. Kantaro Suzuki: Der Premier, der den Krieg beendete.- 3. Naruhiko Higashikuni: Der kaiserliche Führer, der die Streitkräfte auflöste.- 4. Kijuro Shidehara: Ein Internationalist, der sich die Friedensklausel zu eigen machte - 5. Shigeru Yoshida (I): Der Antikriegspazifist als Diplomat und Führer - 6. Tetsu Katayama: Der christliche Pazifist und erste sozialistische Premierminister - 7. Hitoshi Ashida: Der Diplomat, Journalist und Verfechter des internationalen Friedens - 8. Shigeru Yoshida (II): Der Friedensvertrag, die Allianz und die Selbstverteidigungskräfte.- 9. Ichiro Hatoyama: Der erste LDP-Premier, der die Beziehungen zu Moskau normalisierte.- 10. Tanzan Ishibashi: Der Antikriegsjournalist, Staatsmann und Friedensphilosoph - 11. Nobusuke Kishi: Der nationalistische Premier, der den Sicherheitsvertrag revidierte - 12. Hayato Ikeda: Der Plan zur Einkommensverdopplung und die Initiative "Frieden durch Wohlstand" - 13. Eisaku Sato: Nichtnukleare Politik, atomfreies Okinawa und der Friedenspreis - 14. Kakuei Tanaka: Die Umgestaltung Japans und die Normalisierung der Beziehungen zu China - 15. Takeo Miki: Der Antikriegspazifist und Verfechter einer sauberen Politik.- 16. Takeo Fukuda: Die Fukuda-Doktrin und die in alle Richtungen gehende Friedensdiplomatie - 17. Masayoshi Ohira: Der Architekt des Konzepts für die Zusammenarbeit im pazifischen Raum - 18. Zenko Suzuki: Der besonnene Premier auf der Suche nach einer Politik der Harmonie - 19. Yasuhiro Nakasone: Der nationalistische Führer auf der Suche nach Autonomie und echter Allianz.- 20. Noboru Takeshita: Der Verfechter der internationalen Zusammenarbeit für den Weltfrieden.- 21. Sosuke Uno: Skandale und Gipfeldiplomatie.- 22. Toshiki Kaifu: Die Golfkrise, das UN-Gesetz zur Friedenskooperation und der Golfkrieg - 23. Kiichi Miyazawa: UNPKO und die Entsendung von Selbstverteidigungskräften - 24. Morihiro Hosokawa: Die erste nicht-LDP/nicht-kommunistische Koalitionsregierung.- 25. Tsutomu Hata: Der dienstälteste Premierminister der Nachkriegsverfassung.- 26. Tomiichi Murayama: Offizielle Entschuldigung für Japans Kolonialherrschaft und Aggression.- 27. Ryutaro Hashimoto: Die Gemeinsame Erklärung von Japan und den USA und die Verteidigungsrichtlinien - 28. Keizo Obuchi: Der Visionär und Initiator von Japans Diplomatie der menschlichen Sicherheit - 29. Yoshiro Mori: Der Kyushu-Okinawa-Gipfel und die Resolution zum Olympischen Frieden - 30. Junichiro Koizumi: Von der Kantei-Diplomatie zur Anti-Atom-Diplomatie.- 31. Shinzo Abe (I): Auf dem Weg zu einem schönen Land" und die Verfassungsrevision.- 32. Yasuo Fukuda: Das Ringen um einen internationalen Beitrag in der verdrehten Diät.- 33. Taro Aso: Werteorientierte Diplomatie und der Bogen von Freiheit und Wohlstand.- 34. Yukio Hatoyama: Erster DPJ-Premier und die Vision für die ostasiatische Gemeinschaft.- 35. Naoto Kan: Das große Erdbeben in Ostjapan und die Nuklearkatastrophe.- 36. Yoshihiko Noda: Entscheidung über Atomenergie und SDF-Einsatz im Südsudan.- 37. Shinzo Abe (II): Abenomics und proaktiver Beitrag zum Frieden.- 38. Yoshihide Suga: Auf dem Weg zu einer kohlenstoffneutralen Gesellschaft während der Pandemie.- 39. Schlussfolgerung: Japanische Premierminister im Wandel des internationalen Systems.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change. Since the late 1980s, and in order to regulate the increasingly detrimental impacts of humans on the environment, the transition towards sustainability has been high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers alike. Meanwhile, peace considerations have expanded in recent decades to include the varied types and sources of conflict, from inter-state to intra-state conflicts due to various social, political, economic, and environmental factors. Through providing theoretical and empirical insights, this book demonstrates that sustainability and peace as intrinsically interrelated. The book elaborates on the multi-dimensional and constantly evolving concepts of sustainability and peace. In addition, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex and dynamic interlinkages between peace and sustainability by presenting examples of pathways where sustainability and peace interact considering the different factors and contexts that are constantly shaping and reshaping the conditions for sustainable and peaceful societies. Table of Contents1- Introduction: the need for integrated approaches to peace and sustainability 2- A state of art review of the peace-sustainability nexus 3- Women’s Movement towards Building Sustainable Peace in Cross-Cultural Society: the Case of Peace Agenda of Women in the Deep South of Thailand 4- Boko Haram Insurgency on North-Eastern Nigeria, how has this influenced food insecurity in the region? 5- Exploring the need for an Integrated Conflict Sensitivity Framework in development assistance that contributes to peaceful and sustainable post-conflict societies 6- The Components of Peace Agreements and FDI Inflows in 7- Post-Civil War Economies: a cross country analysis over the period 1990 to 2019 8- Peace through Community Building Efforts of the Rohingya in Bangladesh 9- The Humane yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Refugees: A Potential Threat to Peace 10- The Role of Media and Social Cohesion between Host and the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar 11- Human rights, social security and Ghana's response to the COVID-19 pandemic 12- Non-adherence to principles of international law: The bane of environmental insecurity 13- Peace, justice and security in Ghana: the need for peace education 14- Co-benefits and synergies between food security and eight positive peace pillars 15- Concluding remarks
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Palgrave Macmillan Rising India and China
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NUS Press Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor
Book SynopsisWhy does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island's tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor's independence. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor-from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China-wherever mass violence keeps recurring.
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