Building Sustainable Peace

By United Nations

As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the issue of postconflict peacebuilding takes center stage. As envisioned by former UN Secretary General Boutros... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9280811010
• ISBN13: 9789280811018
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: United Nations University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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A serious-minded compilation that blends philosophy with a coldly practical eye for twentieth and tw

Building Sustainable Peace is an anthology of essays by learned contributors focusing on the complex problem of reconstructing and building a sustainable peace, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq but also with an eye for other nations such as West Africa's Liberia and Sierra Leone. Individual selections include "Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention", "Praxis versus Policy", "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace", and many more. A serious-minded compilation that blends philosophy with a coldly practical eye for twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts and acts of terrorism and genocide. Numerous specific peace building strategies are exhaustively discussed in this heavily researched compendium particularly recommended for college libraries, activist organizations, and political science shelves.