Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption

Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

By: Bertram I. Spector

In Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, Bertram Spector argues that the peace negotiation table is the best place to lay the groundwork for good governance.

Type: Book

Pandemics and Peace

Pandemics and Peace

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

By: William J. Long

Pandemics and Peace examines disease surveillance networks of the Mekong Basin, Middle East, and East Africa to answer to interrelated questions: Why is interstate cooperation in an area of national vulnerability occurring among countries with a history of conflict? How do public-private networks deliver transnational public goods (health), and what factors facilitate or impede effective and legitimate transnational governance?

Type: Book

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Media in Fragile Environments

Media in Fragile Environments

Friday, April 29, 2011

By: Eran Fraenkel;  Emrys Schoemaker;  Sheldon Himelfarb

The methodology defined in this work helps a media assessment team understand the causes of conflict in a society, identify changes that could reduce that conflict, and create media interventions that help realize those changes. 

Type: Book

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States

How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States

Friday, April 1, 2011

By: Howard B. Schaffer;  Teresita C. Schaffer

How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States analyzes the themes, techniques, and styles that have characterized Pakistani negotiations with American civilian and military officials since Pakistan’s independence. Drawing from their vast diplomatic experience, authors Teresita and Howard Schaffer examine how Pakistan’s ideological core, geopolitical position, culture, and military and governmental structures shape negotiations with the United States.

Type: Book

Women and War

Women and War

Friday, April 1, 2011

By: Kathleen Kuehnast;  Chantal de Jonge Oudraat;  Helga Hernes;  editors

In consideration of U.N. Resolution 1325 (which called for women’s equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women’s participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence.

Type: Book

Gender

The Iran Primer (Book)

The Iran Primer (Book)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

By: Robin Wright;  editor

The Iran Primer offers a comprehensive but concise overview of Iran’s politics, economy, military, foreign policy, and nuclear program. This volume includes top-level briefings by fifty of the world's leading experts on Iran—both Western and Middle East—from some 20 foreign policy think tanks, eight universities, and six U.S. administrations.

Type: Book

The Go-Between

The Go-Between

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

By: Isak Svensson;  Peter Wallensteen

This volume explores international mediation through the lens of Ambassador Jan Eliasson, an international go-between with a remarkable track record. The authors draw lessons for the peacemaking process from their examination of how Eliasson entered, prepared, pursued, and finally ended his mediation efforts.

Type: Book

Mediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Light Intervention

Light Intervention

Monday, November 1, 2010

By: Anthony Regan

Regan examines the ideal conditions for light international intervention and analyzes the remarkably successful Bougainville peace process, which ended the apparently intractable, violent, and deeply divisive separatist conflict that for much of the period from 1988 to 1997 destabilized both Papua New Guinea and the wider Pacific islands region.

Type: Book

Mediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Crescent and Dove

Crescent and Dove

Friday, October 1, 2010

By: Qamar-ul Huda

Crescent and Dove looks at the relationship between contemporary Islam and peacemaking by tackling the diverse interpretations, concepts, and problems in the field of Islamic peacemaking. It addresses both theory and practice by delving into the intellectual heritage of Islam to discuss historical examples of addressing conflict in Islam and exploring the practical challenges of contemporary peacemaking in Arab countries, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

Type: Book

Religion