Organizations
and Institutions
Edited
by Albrecht Schnabel and David Carment
“The scholarship is first-rate,
thorough, and comprehensive. This work will be a significant contribution to
the study, training and practice of conflict prevention. . . . I regard the
theoretical discussion in the second volume among its greatest strengths . . .
overall the original evidence, comprehensiveness, and integrative nature of the
work are its best features.”
-Franke Wilmer, Director and Professor, Political Science,
“These two volumes form an
encyclopedic study of the means of conflict prevention. . . . For analysts, the two volumes push back the
frontiers into new aspects to study; for practitioners, they show that the
challenge is in applying what we know aplenty, not in hiding behind claims of
ignorance.”
-William Zartman, School of Advanced International Studies,
In
Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality, Volume 1: Organizations and
Institutions conflict prevention specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe and
the Americas, with professional experience in regional organizations, the UN
and various NGOs and research organizations, argue that, as a concept as well
as a policy, conflict prevention is moving beyond rhetorical commitments and
symbolic, ad hoc, activities. Institutional, long-term efforts specifically
targeted at the prevention of violent conflict have become more than just
wishful thinking. Together with local actors, many governments, regional
organizations and the UN are embracing preventive action as a viable path
towards sustainable peace. The contributions to this volume trace conflict
prevention efforts in various regional contexts and explain how preventive
thinking is being successfully mainstreamed into the activities of regional
organizations and the UN.
June 2004 ◈ 400 pages ◈ ISBN 0-7391-0738-0 ◈
Paper $25.00 ◈ ISBN 0-7391-0549-3 ◈
Cloth $75.00
Edited
by David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel
Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality, Volume 2:
Opportunities and Innovations
offers a critical evaluation of existing and emerging approaches to applied
conflict prevention. An international team of practitioners and researchers
with rich theoretical and field experience examine the analytical requirements
to understand the causes of conflict and link these causes to a range of
response options by a variety of relevant actors. They also discuss the newest
frontiers of conflict prevention, including the threat of terrorism and the role
of the private sector. While development practitioners, the corporate sector,
foreign policy makers, and NGOs are coming to conflict prevention from
different directions, they nevertheless reflect common objectives, and need to
be able to speak each other's language. The volume highlights innovative
approaches to allow individuals within these organizations to understand how
they can best use the array of political, economic, social and developmental
instruments available to them to be better analysts and to provide more
effective responses.
June 2004 ◈ 400 pages ◈ ISBN 0-7391-0739-9 ◈
Paper $25.00 ◈ ISBN 0-7391-0550-7 ◈
Cloth $75.00
Albrecht
Schnabel is Senior Research Fellow at swisspeace, Bern. David
Carment is Director of the Centre for Security and Defense Studies and
Associate Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa.
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