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| Title: | Building Sustainable Peace
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| Author: | Tom Keating & W Andy Knight (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0888644140 : 9780888644145 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Weight: | .729 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - April 2004 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Peace studies: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: Peacekeeping operations |
As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes centre stage. This collection presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools which promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts. Copublished with United Nations University Press.
"...the well-versed duo (Tom Keating and W Andy Knight) assembled an impressive roster of international experts to outline a wide array of practical and theoretical bon mots about comprehensive and long-term peace building ranging from the on-the-ground experiences of David Beer (an RCMP officer who created the Canadian five year bilateral policing development assistance plan for Haiti) to an essay by former Edmonton Journal writer Satya Das, to papers penned by leading academics in the field..." Gilbert A Bouchard, Folio. "Keating and Knight's impressive array of scholars, UN and NGO employees, and soldiers share their ideas on what it actually takes to make cliches like 'building civil society' and 'healing the wounds of war' realities... This is not an easy book -- it's obviously aimed at an academic audience -- but its essays provide a glimpse into the morally ambiguous decisions that must be made by those who seek to be peacebuilders..." Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews. "...presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies..." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004 “[Peace building] involves disarming the warring parties, restoring order, repatriating refugees, providing training for security personnel and technical assistance, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, monitoring elections, and reforming and strengthening government institutions. Building presents a timely and original overview of peace building theories and strategies....” Bill Twatio, esprit de corps (Canadian Military magazine), Vol. 12, No. 7, July 2005
