Joshi / Wallensteen Understanding Quality Peace

Peacebuilding after Civil War
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-39156-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

This book provides an analytical framework for understanding how the concept of quality peace can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding, using social sciences, statistics and case studies.

It argues that the quality of the peace in a post-conflict state relates to the extent to which peace accords are implemented, the agreed-upon mechanism for the non-violent resolution of the conflict, and the available social space for civil and political actors. To arrive at the concept of ‘quality peace’, the authors evaluate the existing literature and identify a lack of a satisfactory means of measuring outcomes, and consequently how these might be researched comparatively. The volume problematizes the ‘quality peace’ concept as a way to understand the origins of armed conflict as well as problems deriving from the conflict dynamics and the need for social, political and economic changes in the post-conflict periods.

The book emphasizes five dimensions as crucial for quality peace in a post-accord society. Negotiations and agreements not only aim at avoiding the return of war but also seek to: (1) promote reconciliation, (2) develop mechanisms for resolving future disputes, (3) provide for reliable security, (4) open economic opportunities for marginalized segments of the population, and (5) generate space for civil society. These five dimensions together provide for quality peace after war. They are studied in the context of internal armed conflicts in which multiple parties have signed a peace agreement. This contributes to our understanding of the situations after a civil war, and points to necessary actions for sustaining peace in a society. Thus, it holds lessons for research as well as for practice. The book includes contributions from more than twenty researchers and practitioners and provides deeper analysis of well-known cases such as El Salvador and Northern Ireland, and also draws lessons from situations seldom observed in policy discussions, such as in Cambodia and the Solomon Islands.

This book will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies, civil wars, global governance, security studies and International Relations in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Madhav

Wallensteen, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Madhav Joshi & Peter Wallensteen

1. Understanding Quality Peace: Introducing the Five Dimensions, Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen

PART I: Post-War Security

2. Peace Implementation and Quality Peace, Terence Lyons

3. Same Peace – Different Quality? The Importance of Security Equality for Quality Peace, Louise Olsson

PART II: Governance

4. Governance and negotiations: Whose quality standards?, Roger Mac Ginty

5. Approaches to Negotiations in Post-Civil War Settings: The Role of Local Institutions, Jenny Guardado, Leonard Wantchekon, Sarah Weltman

PART III: Economic Reconstruction

6. Business on the Frontlines, Viva Ona Bartkus

7. Peace processes, economic recovery and development agencies, Achim Wennmann

PART IV: Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

8. Factoring Transitional Justice into the Quality Peace Equation, David Backer

9. The Challenges of Reconciling the Old and the New in Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes: The Case of Solomon Islands, Karen Brounéus and Holly Guthrey

10. Reconciliation's Contributions to Quality Peace, Alexander Dukalskis, Laura K. Taylor, and John Darby

PART V: Civil Society

11. Is civil society needed for quality peace?, Thania Paffenholz

12. Civil Society and Quality Peace: What happened in El Salvador, Richard Jones

PART VI: Case Studies

13. Quality of Peace in Cambodia: 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement, Kheang Un

14: El Salvador Twenty Years Later: Successful Democratization but Questionable Peace, Dinorah Azpuru

15. Quality Peace Northern Ireland Case Study, Colin Knox

16. Mozambique: A Credible Commitment to Peace, Carrie Manning and Chipo Dendere

17. Conclusion: Developing Quality Peace: Moving Forward, Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen

Über Autor(innen)

Madhav Joshi is Research Associate Professor, and Associate Director of the Peace Accords Matrix project at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Peter Wallensteen is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Notre Dame, USA. He is editor/author of many books, including, recently, Understanding Conflict Resolution (4th edition, 2015), Quality Peace: Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order (2015) and Regional Organisations and Peacemaking (co-editor, Routledge 2014).