This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits,
consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from
violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing
realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of
9-11, our understanding of conflict and conflict resolution has to
include consideration of the conditions conducive to sustaining the
peace in nations torn by civil war or interstate conflict.
First, whereas wars between sovereign nations had dominated
international politics for the previous 300 years, civil wars
within nations - revolutions, secessionist wars, ethnic conflicts,
and terrorism - have become the most frequent and deadly forms of
armed conflict since the end of World War II. Second, the Third
World - Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East - has
become the site of most of the armed conflict in last half century.
Third, not only has civil war become the dominant conflict modality
in the international community but once it occurs in a nation, it
is highly likely to recur at some time in the future. Fourth, while
the end of the Cold War has not significantly diminished the
frequency and destructiveness of war, the international community
has compiled an unprecedented record of mediating peaceful
settlements to a number of protracted conflicts in the Third World.
These trends define a new agenda for the international community in
the new century: how do we sustain the peace in nations previously
torn by civil war? Each of the chapters here analyzes the prospects
for building a sustainable peace from a number of different
perspectives, examining: the role of economic development,
democratization, respect forhuman rights, the potential for renewal
of conflict, the United Nations, and other critical topics. In an
age when 'nation-building' is once again on the international
agenda, and scholars as well as policymakers realize both the
tremendous costs and benefits in fostering developed, democratic,
peaceful and secure nations, the time has truly come for a book
that integrates all the facets of this important subject.
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