Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies
- ISBN-10
- 1555879462
- ISBN-13
- 9781555879464
- Category
- Civil war
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Authors
- Elizabeth M. Cousens, Karin Wermester, Chetan Kumar
Description
Examines successes and failures of large-scale interventions to build peace in El Salvador, Cambodia, Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sheds lights on the unique conditions for and constraints on peacebuilding in each country and examines the quality and coherence of international responses. Cousens is director of research at the International Peace Academy. Kumar is affiliated with the Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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