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Building Sustainable Peace

Editat de Tom Keating, W. Andy Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2004

Editorii Tom Keating și W. Andy Knight, ambii profesori cu o vastă experiență în relații internaționale la universități canadiene de prestigiu, reunesc în acest volum o echipă interdisciplinară de experți pentru a analiza arhitectura fragilă a păcii globale. Observăm că fundamentul teoretic al lucrării pleacă de la viziunea lui Boutros Boutros-Ghali, însă autorii depășesc cadrul tehnic al ONU, propunând o reconceptualizare critică a intervențiilor post-conflict. Găsim în această carte o analiză riguroasă a proceselor de dezarmare, repatriere a refugiaților și reconstrucție guvernamentală, toate fiind ancorate în realitățile dure din Afganistan și Irak.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorii integrează dimensiunea politică și cea socială, argumentând că simpla restaurare a ordinii este insuficientă fără o reformă profundă a instituțiilor. Building Sustainable Peace completează perspectiva oferită de Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies de T. David Mason, adăugând o dimensiune critică asupra modului în care resursele sunt adesea irosite dacă structurile societale de bază nu sunt luate în considerare de la început. În contextul operei editorului W. Andy Knight, acest volum reprezintă o evoluție firească de la studiul statelor fragile prezentat în From Kinshasa to Kandahar, mutând accentul de la diagnosticarea eșecului statal către soluții practice și durabile de stabilizare. Stilul este academic și dens, fiind structurat pentru a servi drept resursă esențială în înțelegerea mecanismelor complexe ale securității internaționale contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780888644145
ISBN-10: 0888644140
Pagini: 504
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:First edition
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru studenții și specialiștii în relații internaționale care doresc să înțeleagă de ce intervențiile de pace eșuează adesea. Cititorul câștigă acces la o analiză multidimensională a procesului de „peacebuilding”, învățând să facă distincția între o pace superficială și una sustenabilă. Este un instrument analitic rar, care combină studiile de caz recente cu o critică necesară a politicilor globale actuale.


Despre autor

Tom Keating și W. Andy Knight sunt figuri proeminente în mediul academic canadian, specializați în guvernanță globală și organizații internaționale. W. Andy Knight a deținut funcția de director al Institutului de Relații Internaționale de la University of the West Indies și este recunoscut pentru cercetările sale privind statele eșuate și rolul Națiunilor Unite în securitatea colectivă. Tom Keating este profesor de științe politice, autor al unor lucrări de referință despre politica externă canadiană. Împreună, aceștia au transformat University of Alberta Press într-un punct central pentru dezbaterile privind pacea durabilă și ordinea mondială post-9/11.


Descriere

As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes center stage. The precise elements in peacebuilding, as envisioned by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, include disarming warring parties, restoring order, decommissioning and destroying weapons, repatriating refugees, providing advisory and training support for security personnel, monitoring elections, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, providing technical assistance, advancing efforts to protect human rights, reforming and strengthening institutions of governance—including assistance in monitoring and supervising electoral processes—and promoting formal and informal participation in the political process. Building Sustainable Peace presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools that promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts. Contributors: Francis Kofi Abiew, Adekeye Adebajo, Howard Adelman, Christopher P. Ankersen, David Beer, Kenneth Bush, Jarat Chopra, Satya Brata Das, Jean Daudelin, Kassu Gebremariam, Tanja Hohe, Tom Keating, W. Andy Knight, Melissa Labonte, Carolyn Elizabeth Lloyd, Joseph Masciulli, Sumie Nakaya, Shaun Narine, Senator Douglas Roche

Recenzii

"...the well-versed duo [Tom Keating and W. Andy Knight] assembled an impressive roster of international experts to outline a wide-array of practical and theoretical bon mots about comprehensive and long-term peace building ranging from the on-the-ground experiences of David Beer (an RCMP officer who created the Canadian five year bilateral policing development assistance plan for Haiti) to an essay by former Edmonton Journal writer Satya Das, to papers penned by leading academics in the field." Gilbert A. Bouchard, Folio
"Keating and Night (both professors of political science, U. of Alberta, Canada) present fifteen papers from a March 2000 symposium that explore issues of international intervention, techniques of peacebuilding, and the role of nongovernmental actors and regional organizations in the peacebuilding process. Mostly written by academics, but including contributions from some policy advisors and practitioners, the papers discuss such topics as the commodification and militarization of peacebuilding, judicial sector reforms in Haiti following the early 1990s intervention, peacebuilding experiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone, an assessment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, financing of peacebuilding missions, the creation of a small arms control region, and the role of Africa's regional organization in the Horn of Africa." BOOK NEWS Inc.
"Keating and Knight's impressive array of scholars, UN and NGO employees, and soldiers share their ideas on what it actually takes to make cliches like 'building civil society' and 'healing the wounds of war' realities..This is not an easy book--it's obviously aimed at an academic audience--but its essays provide a glimpse into the morally ambiguous decisions that must be made by those who seek to be peacebuilders." Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews
"Building Sustainable Peace offers a variety of concise and informative discussion pieces for upper year classes on post-conflict policy issues. For courses involving a mixture of lectures and research presentations, the articles provide a very useful focus for students and teachers alike, with a good balance of case analysis and thematic critique. Canadian actors, programs and priorities are well covered so that the material will speak to the interests of Canadian students." Dr. Alistair Edgar, Wilfred Laurier University, (Political Science 311f course, Fall 2004)"
"Building Sustainable Peace presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools that promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts." Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004
"[Peace building] involves disarming the warring parties, restoring order, repatriating refugees, providing training for security personnel and technical assistance, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, monitoring elections, and reforming and strengthening government institutions. Building presents a timely and original overview of peace building theories and strategies...." Bill Twatio, esprit de corps (Canadian Military magazine), Vol. 12, No. 7, July 2005
"A serious-minded compilation that blends philosophy with a coldly practical eye for twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts and acts of terrorism and genocide. Numerous specific peacebuilding strategies are exhaustively discussed in this heavily researched compendium particularly recommended for college libraries, activist organizations, and political science shelves."
"Many of the authors in the book support a new concept of peace building that combines both problem solving and critical approaches. This new view recognises the need to do something about the immediacy of breakdown of societal structures. It stipulates that it is futile to pour resources and personnel into every problem associated with complex humanitarian emergencies and violent outbreaks, if the peace results cannot be sustained. Building Sustainable Peace captures both the experiences and the spirit of the challenges involved." V.R. Raghavan, The Hindu, February 14, 2006.

Notă biografică

Tom Keating is a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta and author of Canada and World Order. W. Andy Knight is McCalla Research Professor at the University of Alberta and editor of Global Governance.