Boundary Disputes in Latin America

Boundary Disputes in Latin America

Friday, August 1, 2003

By: Jorge I. Domínguez;  David Mares;  Manuel Orozco;  David Scott Palmer;  Francisco Rojas Aravena;  Andrés Serbin

Since the start of 2000, five Latin American boundary disputes between neighboring states have resulted in the use of force, and two others in its deployment. These incidents involved ten of the nineteen independent countries of South and Central America.

Type: Peaceworks

Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

This publication documents faith-based efforts by Muslim, Jewish, and Christians to achieve a just peace in the Arab/Israeli conflict. The publication argues forcefully that religious leaders and interests must be engaged in the peace process in order to assure a sustainable, inclusive, and comprehensive settlement. The report includes the perspectives of clergy, lay, facilitators of inter-faith dialogue, religious educators, and participants in the historic Alexandria Summit in January 2002,...

Type: Peaceworks

Mediation, Negotiation & DialogueReligion

The Palestinian Reform Agenda

Sunday, December 1, 2002

By: Nathan J. Brown

The Oslo Accords reached by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel in 1993-95 ushered into existence the Palestinian Authority and inspired efforts to build autonomous structures for Palestinian self-rule. Since the earliest days of the Palestinian Authority, a varied group of Palestinians has sought to lay the practical foundation for Palestinian statehood through the construction of strong institutions with clear (and generally liberal) legal bases.

Type: Peaceworks

EnvironmentEconomics

The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy: From Oslo to the Al Aqsa Intifada

The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy: From Oslo to the Al Aqsa Intifada

Friday, November 1, 2002

By: Yoram Peri

Peri’s account of Israel’s travails is the broader lesson about what can happen to a democratic political system over decades of constant warfare of greater or lesser intensity. Perhaps inevitably, military leaders, active or retired, acquire great public prominence, while civilian politicians, nominally their superiors shrink in perceived stature. In Israel it has become more and more difficult for either major political party to achieve political success without having a bevy of retired gen...

Type: Peaceworks

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

Thursday, August 1, 2002

By: C. A. J. Coady

At the very beginning of the twenty-first century, two concerns ranked high on the military-political agenda of the Western world: humanitarian intervention and terrorism. This is an essay on the ethical issues surrounding the former.

Type: Peaceworks

Global Policy

Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China

Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China

Monday, July 1, 2002

By: David Zweig

This study addresses the relationship among popular attitudes toward democracy, a state's political structures--parties, elections, and the government bodies to which candidates in these societies are elected--and the ways in which people participate in politics. It argues that high levels of popular democratic consciousness and strong demands for participation, in the absence of legitimate democratic institutions, lead citizens to resort to nonformal political strategies, including civil dis...

Type: Peaceworks

Training for Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations: Advancing Best Practices

Training for Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations: Advancing Best Practices

Monday, April 1, 2002

By: Robert M. Schoenhaus

While the four communities in peace operations--governmental and non- governmental organizations (NGOs), the military, and international civilian police--frequently find themselves sharing the same field of operation, their approaches to and structures for training for that interaction and the articulation of training needs are quite different.

Type: Peaceworks

Education & Training

The Role of International Financial Institutions in International Humanitarian Law

The Role of International Financial Institutions in International Humanitarian Law

Thursday, January 10, 2002

By: Laurie R. Blank

This project focuses on the innovative role that new groups and established international organizations can play in stemming the tide of atrocities and promoting adherence to international humanitarian law in regions whose inhabitants cannot count on the mature institutions of civil society to handle their grievances.

Type: Peaceworks