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Understanding Conflict Resolution War, Peace and the Global System

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ISBN-10: 0857020501

ISBN-13: 9780857020505

Edition: 3rd 2011

Authors: Peter Wallensteen

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List price: $27.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 11/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.53" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
The Problem and How to Approach It
Understanding Conflict Resolution
Peacemaking as a New Experience
Peace Research and Conflict Resolution
Defining Conflict Resolution
Limits of Conflict Resolution
Outlining This Book
Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements
The Concept of Conflict
Identifying Armed Conflict
Three projects
The Michigan and Hamburg projects
Trends in Armed Conflicts
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)
Patterns of armed conflict
Outcomes of Armed Conflict
Approaching Conflict Resolution
The Evolution of Conflict Analysis
Focusing on Conflict Dynamics
Focusing on Basic Needs
Focusing on Rational Calculations
Synthesizing Conflict Resolution
Refining the definition
Transcending incompatibility: seven mechanisms
Identifying Key Elements in Conflict Analysis
Analysing Conflict Resolution
Basic and Complex Levels of Analysis
The Role of the State
Actors in conflict
The special roles of the state
The global system
Introducing the Trichotomy of Conflict
Locating conflicts in the trichotomy
Applying the Trichotomy of Conflict and Peace
Armed conflict since the Cold War
Peace agreements since the Cold War
Basics of Conflict Resolution
The Resolution of Conflicts between States
Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords between States
The last decades of the Cold War
The post-Cold War period
Geopolitik, Realpolitik, Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik
Conflict Resolution: Geopolitik and Realpolitik
Status Quo or Status Quo Ante Bellum?
Punitive or integrative solutions?
The seven mechanisms
Conflict Resolution: Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik
Idealpolitik and the settlement of conflicts
Peacemaking and Kapitalpolitik
The seven mechanisms
Conclusions for Interstate Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars
Armed Conflicts and Peace Accords within States
Civil wars during and after the Cold War
Peace agreements in civil wars
Dealing with Incompatibilities over State Power
Democracy and the Settlement of Civil Wars
Dealing with the Internal Security Dilemma
State Failure, State Reconstruction and Non-state Terrorism
Civil Society in Internal Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution in State Formation Conflicts
State Formation Conflicts
State formation conflicts during the Cold War
State formation conflicts after the Cold War
Peace agreements in the post-Cold War era
Identity Discrimination and Conflict Resolution
Autonomy and Federalism: Territorial Solutions within a State
Independence with or without Integration
State Formation Conflicts and Democracy
Complexities in Conflict Resolution
Conflict Complexes and Conflict Resolution
Identifying Regional Conflict Complexes
Regional conflicts since the Cold War
Approaching regional conflicts
Regional Conflict and the Organizing of Regions
Regional frameworks
The limits of intra-regional frameworks
Extra-regional approaches to regional conflicts
Regional security after war
Major Powers and Conflict Complexes
Major powers in regional conflicts
Armed conflicts in major powers
Major powers and global conflict
Global Dimensions of Conflict Resolution
The United Nations in Conflict Resolution
The UN in Peace Agreements
Collective Security
The UN Charter
UN institutions
The Security Council in Conflict Resolution
Agenda setting
World regions
The permanent members
UN Action and Peace Agreements
Sanctions
Peacekeeping operations
Peace enforcement
International Communities in Conflict Resolution
The New Communities
UN-focused communities
Value- and power-focused communities
Early Action and Conflict Prevention
Examples of conflict prevention
Predicting escalation
Third Parties and Mediation
Entering a conflict
Approaches to mediation
Structural Changes and Peaceful Conflict
Undoing the effects of war
Reducing access to arms
Tackling the territorial issues
Developing democratic institutions
Finding new state structures
Assessing the role of power
Between the International Community and Pax Americana
References
Index