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In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia, ten experts native to South Asia consider the nature of intrastate insurgent movements from a peacebuilding perspective. Case studies on India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka lend new insights into the dynamics of each conflict and how they might be prevented or resolved.

This study of "coercive inducement" - Kofi Annan's term for diplomacy relying on demonstrations of military force - shows how, in the absence of such an option, the international community finds it hard to respond to various crises. This includes ones that can spiral out of control, and genocide.

This volume presents seven case studies of the United States Institute of Peace's facilitated dialogue efforts in Iraq, Kosovo, Israel/Palestine, Colombia, Nigeria, and Nepal.

Provides an examination of the period of "robust" UN-mandated peacekeeping missions in humanitarian crises.

This volume explores how international regimes accomplish their goals - goals that constantly shift as problems change and the power of member-states shifts. The editors emphasize that successful evolution depends above all on a process of continuous negotiation - domestic as well as international.

The concept of the multilevel peace process and the idea of sustained dialogue between unofficial members of seemingly implacable groups evolved with the Dartmouth process. Using research and interviews, this account of it adds a new perspective on the Cold War and multilevel peace processes.

This work, asking, "Can Russia and the US really move beyond their bitter Cold War rivalry to a genuinely cooperative relationship?", concludes that they can, but only if the US, together with its European allies, promotes a new "logic of peace" to which NATO enlargement could contribute.

Filling a gap in the literature on peace design from an economic perspective, Peace Economics extends beyond economic principles into the wider realm of social reconstitution, social contract, and social capital in the hopes of helping practitioners build a more stable peace.

A compilation of thought-provoking speeches delivered by some of the most accomplished practitioners of international relations: Ezer Weizman, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, George Mitchell, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, James Baker, and Mohamed ElBaradei.

Managing Public Information in a Mediation Process, the second handbook in the Peacemaker's Toolkit series, helps mediators identify and develop the resources and strategies they need to reach these audiences.

Managing the Mediation Process offers an overview of the process of mediating interstate and intrastate conflicts. Each of its six chapters covers a different step in the process, identifying what needs to be done at that step and how best to accomplish it.

Sets forth an interests-based framework for American engagement in the peace process. This book provides a critical assessment of US diplomacy since the end of the Cold War, and offers a set of ten core 'lessons' to guide the efforts of future American negotiators.

Highlights the challenges that escalating identity conflicts within Muslim-majority states pose for both the Muslim world and for the West. This title embraces that pluralism while identifying points of convergence and difference that together point to innovative ways to improve US-Muslim relations and promote Muslim-world peacebuilding.

Explores various aspects of the range of interim regimes, focusing on issues of legitimacy, conflict management, and the participation of the international community in transitions from war to peace.

Getting It Right in Afghanistan addresses the real drivers of the insurgency, how Afghanistan's neighbors can contribute to peace in the region, and the need for more inclusive political arrangements in peace and reconciliation processes.

In places as diverse as South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Nepal, negotiators of national peace plans have for years sanctioned the creation of local peace committees (LPCs) to address community-level sources of grievance and thereby to build peace from the bottom up.

Examining the U.S. foreign policy missteps leading up to 9/11

By virtue of its size and history, Iran under any circumstances would pose relevance for American policy, but the 1979 revolution and the political system that it wrought placed Iran squarely at the heart of US security challenges. This book focuses on Iran's complex political system and foreign policy and its central role in the region.

Regan examines the ideal conditions for light international intervention and analyzes the remarkably successful Bougainville peace process, which ended in apparently intractable, violent, and deeply divisive separatist conflict that for much of the period from 1988 to 1997 destabilized both Papua New Guinea and the wider Pacific islands region.

The property abandoned by Palestinian refugees in 1948 is an acutely sensitive subject for Palestinians and Israelis. Investigating US and UN settlement proposals developed in the 1950s and '60s, this volume explains how the peace process from Camp David I to Camp David II and beyond has actually hindered a settlement of property claims.