Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality: Opportunities and innovations. Volume 2David Carment, Albrecht Schnabel Lexington Books, 2004 - 444 pages There is a widening range of organizations that are being called upon to do conflict prevention. These actors range from the corporate sector and NGOs to regional and multilateral economic and political organizations, with diverse mandates, leadership, funding, and operational activities. 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 for more effective responses. |
Contents
Into the Mainstream Applied Conflict Prevention | 3 |
ANALYTICAL REQUIREMENTS | 19 |
Sources of Violent Conflict | 21 |
Natural Resource Endowment and Conflicts in Developing Countries From Causes to Possible Solutions | 41 |
Introducing Gender in Conflict and Conflict Prevention Conceptual and Policy Implications | 63 |
Anticipating State Failure | 79 |
Human Security and Conflict Prevention | 109 |
RESPONSE STRATEGIES AND CAPACITY BUILDING | 133 |
Training as a Means to Build Capacity in Conflict Prevention The UNITAR Approach | 227 |
Building Capacity within the United Nations Cooperation on the Prevention of Violent Conflicts | 251 |
THE FRONTIERS OF APPLIED CONFLICT PREVENTION | 277 |
The Centrality of ConfidenceBuilding Measures Lessons from the Middle East | 279 |
Preventing Terrorism? Direct Measures FirstIntrusive Normative and Personal | 303 |
Conflict Prevention and Financial Capacity Building | 341 |
Assessing the Corporate Sectors Role in Conflict Prevention | 359 |
The Private Sector and Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming | 385 |
Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention Policies of Thirdparty Actors Building an Inhouse Capacity for Preventive Action | 135 |
Generating the Means to an End Political Will and Integrated Responses to Early Warning | 163 |
Nongovernmental Organizations and Conflict Prevention Roles Capabilities Limitations | 177 |
Conflict Prevention through Peace Education A Debate | 199 |
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