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From Mediation to Nation-Building - Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict (Hardcover)
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From Mediation to Nation-Building - Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict (Hardcover)
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The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian
crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa,
imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards
third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart
as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively,
that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and
national conflict is still discernible, motivated as it was in the
1990s by the inability of in-house accommodation methods to resolve
ethno-political conflicts peacefully and the tendency of such
conflicts to spill into the international system in the form of
massive refugee flows, regional instability, and failed states
hosting criminal and terrorist elements. In its various forms,
third party intervention has become a fixed part of the current
international system Our book examines the various forms in which
that intervention occurs, from the least intrusive and costly forms
of third party activity to the most intrusive and expensive
endeavors. More specifically, organized in the form of overview
essays followed by case studies that explore the utility and
limitations, successes and failures of various forms of third party
activity in managing conflict, the book begins by examining
diplomatic intervention and then proceeds to cover, in turn, legal,
economic, and military instruments of conflict management before
concluding with a section on political tutelage arrangements and
nation/capacity building operations. The chapters themselves are
authored by a mix of contributors drawn from relevant disciplines,
both senior and younger scholars, academics and practitioners, and
North Americans and Europeans. All treat a common theme but no
attempt was made to solicit work from contributors with a common
orientation towards the value of third party intervention. Nor were
the authors straight-jacketed with heavy content guidelines from
the editors. Their essays validate the value of this approach. Far
from being chaotic in nature, they generally supplement one
another, while offering opposing viewpoints on the overall topic;
for example, our Italian contributor who specializes in
non-government organizations offers a chapter illustrating their
utility under certain conditions, whereas the chapter from an
Afghan practitioner notes the downside of too much reliance on NGOs
in nation-building operations. The essays also cover topics not
often treated, and are written from the viewpoint of those on the
ground. The chapter on creating a police force in post-Dayton
Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, reads much like a diary from the
American colonel who was sent to Bosnia in early 1996 charged with
that task.
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