Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises

by Janie Leatherman, William DeMars, Patrick Gaffney, Raimo Vayrynen

Overview

This timely book studies how to target and prioritize resources in societies at immediate risk for violent conflict. The text develops guidelines, illustrated in the cases of Burundi and Macedonia, for assessing the causes of conflict through early warning indicators, while presenting multidimensional strategies to transform them. Preventative action is seen as a means to contain conflicts and rehabilitate societies throughout the escalation, violence, and post-conflict cycle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565490925
Publisher:	Kumarian Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/28/1999
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

PART 1 CONCEPTURAL FRAMEWORK; 1) The Priority of Acting Preventively; 2) Organizing For Proactive Intervention; 3) The Early Warning Toolbox: Cues From Background Conditions; 4) Crossing Thresholds: Mechanisms of conflict Escalation; 5) Keeping Closed the Gates of War: The Peace Potential of Preventive Action; PART 2 CASE STUDIES; 6) The Shock of the Familiar: Discerning Patterns in Burundi’s Cycles of Ethnic Violence; 7) Preventing Conflict in Macedonia: A Lasting Peace or a Line in the Sand?; PART 3 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; 8) Inventive Diplomacy: Policy Recommendations for Early Warning and conflict Prevention

What People are Saying About This

Barnett R. Rubin

Dr. Barnett Rubin, Director, Center for Preventative Action, Council on Foreign Relations

[The authors] have captured both the complexity and the promise of the new efforts to prevent deadly conflicts. Their concept of 'inventive diplomacy' reaches beyond paper plans for institutional reform or virtuous recommendations to suggest how networks of actors actually form alliances across borders and across sectors.

Editorial Reviews

Researchers affiliated with the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies (U. of Notre Dame) provide a conceptual framework, case studies, and policy recommendations for an early warning toolbox and preventive diplomacy for averting inter-communal violence in the new world (dis)order. Includes 20-plus pages of references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Captures both the complexity and the promise of the new efforts to prevent deadly conflicts. The concept of ‘inventive diplomacy’ reaches beyond paper plans for institutional reform or virtuous recommendations to suggest how actors actually form alliances across borders and across sectors."

"A well-integrated and well-structured text."

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