• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: From Promise to Practice : Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Conflict
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    1 Introduction
    Part 1 Theoretical Challenges, Operational Opportunities
    2 From Risk to Response: Phases of Conflict, Phases of Conflict Prevention
    3 Third-Party Incentives and the Phases of Conflict Prevention
    Part 2 Lessons from the Field: Managing the Gestation of Conflict
    4 Quiet Diplomacy and Recurring "Ethnic Clashes" in Kenya
    5 Zanzibar: A Multilevel Analysis of Conflict Prevention
    6 Fiji: Peacemaking in a Multiethnic State
    Part 3 Lessons from the Field: Anticipating the Triggers of Violence
    7 Javakheti, Georgia: Why Conflict Prevention?
    8 East Timor: The Path to Self-Determination
    Part 4 Lessons from the Field: Preventing Escalation or Resurgence
    9 Colombia: International Involvement in Protracted Peacemaking
    10 Tajikistan: Bad Peace Agreements and Prolonged Civil Conflict
    11 Liberia: Legacies and Leaders
    12 Preventing Conflict Escalation in Burundi
    Part 5 Options for the Future
    13 Insights from the Cases: Opportunities and Challenges for Preventive Actors
    14 From Promise to Practice? Conflict Prevention at the UN
    List of Acronyms
    Selected Bibliography
    The Contributors
    Index
    About the Book
  • Contributor: Brown, Stephen [Contributor]; Chernick, Marc W. [Contributor]; Collins, Kathleen [Contributor]; Kaiser, Paul J. [Contributor]; Kieh, George Klay [Contributor]; Lekha Sriram, Chandra [Contributor]; Lekha Srirarn, Chandra [Contributor]; Malone, David M. [Contributor]; Matveeva, Anna [Contributor]; Maundi, Mohammed Omar [Contributor]; Premdas, Ralph R. [Contributor]; Rothchild, Donald [Contributor]; Samuel, Tamrat [Contributor]; Sriram, Chandra Lekha [Editor]; Wermester, Karin [Contributor]; Wermester, Karin [Editor]
  • Published: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023
  • Published in: A project of the International Peace Institute
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (429 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781685855239
  • ISBN: 9781685855239
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  • Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual
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