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These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent's changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as the increasing tempo of armed conflict, the tendency of Western states and agencies to intervene in African settings, the presence of China, and the health of African states and their ability to participate in the global economy. Questions regarding sovereignty, leading regional actors, conflict and resolution,...
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Le terrorisme a pris une importance considérable dans notre société. Hyper-médiatisé, mal connu et mal interprété par nombre de ceux qui le commentent, il est aussi récupéré au service d'idéologies politiques et d'ambitions personnelles par nombre de ceux qui sont censés le combattre. Ce livre invite à le comprendre pour ce qu'il est réellement : un crime certes atroce, mais d'une grande banalité dans le paysage des violences sociales....
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In Death as a Way of Life, David Grossman, one of Israel's great fiction writers, addresses urgent questions regarding the middle east in a series of passionate essays and insightful articles.
Writing not only as one of his country's most respected novelists and commentators, but as a husband and father and peace activist bitterly disappointed in the leaders of both sides, Grossman asks: What went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians...
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Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of Law and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nicholas Sambanis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and...
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El libro recoge las reflexiones que enmarcan la reconciliación como una posibilidad real y punto de partida para la construcción de un tejido social que paulatinamente siembre la paz, no como utopía, sino como una expresión concreta de relación y acción, tal como lo muestra el mismo texto cuando aborda en su parte final algunas experiencias concretas, nacionales e internacionales que han dejado en los contextos sociales en los que se han desarrollado...
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In recent years, a burgeoning literature has explored the strategic advantages of using nonviolent resistance to achieve positive political outcomes, such as regime change and democratization. Yet, despite one-fifth of largescale nonviolent campaigns occurring during the course of a civil war, we know little about the effect nonviolent resistance might have on the transformation of armed conflict. Bringing together the previously isolated literatures...
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Este libro pretende buscar luces en los clásicos para iluminar nuestro presente, un presente inestable y conflictivo, un presente en el que la muerte y la desolación se propagan como una plaga, un presente en el que la paz es un anhelo para millones de personas inmersas en numerosos conflictos alrededor del mundo. Se trata de una contribución a la reflexión en torno a ese anhelo de paz universal gracias a las contribuciones de investigadores de...
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Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its study in the context of colonialism, anti-imperialism and liberation struggles. This study demonstrates that 'peace' might not be found in 'justice', and argues instead of a 'peace process' for a 'pacification process'.
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Este libro analiza, desde una perspectiva filosófica y sociológica, las consecuencias epistemológicas diferenciales respecto de cuatro tipos significativos de discursos sobre la transformación del conflicto social latinoamericano en contraste con los discursos de paz.
Focaliza su análisis en el periodo comprendido entre los años sesenta y ochenta del siglo XX, referente a partir del cual se muestra cómo el discurso crítico y propositivo frente...
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La paz, entendida como un largo proceso, es uno de los ejes temáticos de este testimonio autobiográfico de Alberto Rojas Puyo. A comienzos de 1980, este político colombiano, que entonces militaba en el Partido Comunista Colombiano, insistió en que la resolución del conflicto armado sólo se podía pensar como un proceso y no simplemente como la reunión de las partes y la firma de un acuerdo de desarme y desmovilización.
Este autorrelato sobre...
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"Winner of the 2012 Academic Palestine Book Award, Middle East Monitor" "Winner of the 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies" "One of Choice's Top 25 Titles for 2012" Sara Roy is senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her books include Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development.
A revealing...
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While Daniel Holland's memoir details his involvement in the draft resistance movement of the 1960s, the impetus to share his story now comes from the dangerous new president and congress that have taken control of the United States Government. There is no telling how quickly they will plunge our nation into war. People who are of age to fight in the wars of today were not yet born when the lessons of Vietnam were being learned, so this book may serve...
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¿En dónde comienza el tratamiento y la intervención a las víctimas? ¿En las metodologías de acompañamiento o en las teorías e ideas que dan origen a estas?
En torno a esta reflexión gira este libro, como un análisis sobre la producción de la victimología y el discurso sobre las víctimas. Esta apuesta conceptual reclasifica la lógica de la victimización al diferenciar la sujeción al daño según sea la condición de la víctima de...
94) El trabajo como elemento de construcción de paz y democracia en el marco del posconflicto colombiano
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La construcción de paz, como proceso de largo plazo, posterior a la firma de los acuerdos de finalización del conflicto involucra la empleabilidad de excombatientes y víctimas a través de mecanismos jurídicos, económicos, internacionales, de administración y psicológicos que se analizan en la presente obra. Los contactos entre la Teoría de la Resolución de Conflictos y las disciplinas que se ocupan del trabajo demandan la estructuración...
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They persuaded him to return to study at NYU, after which he finally emigrated under the auspices of Interns...
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Raja Sharma
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A Separate Peace" by John Knowles is a coming-of-age novel. The novel is based on a short story titled "Phineas" written by Knowles earlier in his life. Although it was the author's first published novel, it eventually became his best known work. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Second World War. The story extensively explores some of the most important themes such as patriotism, morality, and loss of innocence. Gene is the narrator of...
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"I joined because I was bored."
With those words, David Rogers Jr. goes on a true-life journey from U.S. Navy bootcamp in 2004, through the farces of the military life, and into the GI anti-war movement. Working to end the Forever War, he follows in the tradition of the Vietnam-era anti-war GIs, powered by the absurdities of Catch-22.
Whether surviving insane cab drivers on shore leave or sobering encounters with Somali pirates, Rogers portrays...
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Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons-or try to become a Central Asian North Korea?
This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known...
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