From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent ConflictChandra Lekha Sriram, Karin Wermester Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003 - 429 pages How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Phases of Conflict Phases | 13 |
ThirdParty Incentives and the Phases of Conflict Prevention | 35 |
A Multilevel Analysis of Conflict Prevention | 101 |
Peacemaking in a Multiethnic State | 133 |
The Path to SelfDetermination | 197 |
Bad Peace Agreements and Prolonged | 267 |
Legacies and Leaders | 307 |
Preventing Conflict Escalation in Burundi | 327 |
Opportunities | 351 |
From Promise to Practice? Conflict Prevention at the | 375 |
List of Acronyms | 387 |
Selected Bibliography | 393 |
The Contributors | 405 |
About the Book 429 | |
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