Peacebuilding After Peace Accords: The Challenges of Violence, Truth and Youth

by Tristan Anne Borer, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, John Darby

Book Overview

During the 1990s, optimism abounded because international violence was in decline. The number of armed conflicts decreased worldwide from more than fifty in the early 1990s to fewer than thirty a decade later. This drop resulted largely from negotiations leading to peace accords. However, in a disturbingly large number of places, war was actually succeeded not by peace but by a stalemate. Peace accords were plagued by problems, including economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268022046
• ISBN13: 9780268022044
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"