Measuring Peace
Principles, Practices, and Politics
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9780198867708
Publication date:
24/08/2022
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176 pages
215.9x139.7mm
Price: 995.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198867708
Publication date:
24/08/2022
Paperback
176 pages
Richard Caplan
Offers fresh perspective on international efforts to build sustainable peace in states emerging from violent conflict,Provides evidence-based policy recommendations on how to enhance peacebuilding effectiveness,Addresses some of the most critical issues of our time,Draws on a wide range of scholarship and original empirical findings
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Richard Caplan
Description
How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace?
More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile, the international community expends billions of dollars and deploys tens of thousands of personnel each year in support of efforts to build peace in countries emerging from violent conflict.
This book argues that efforts to build peace are hampered by the lack of effective means of assessing progress towards the achievement of a consolidated peace. Rarely,
if ever, do peacebuilding organizations and governments seek to ascertain the quality of the peace that they are helping to build and the contribution that their engagement is making (or not) to the consolidation of peace. More rigorous assessments of the robustness of peace are needed. These assessments require clarity about the characteristics of, and the requirements for, a stable peace. This in turn requires knowledge of the local culture, local history, and the specific conflict dynamics at work in a given conflict situation. Better assessment can inform peacebuilding actors in the reconfiguration and reprioritization of their operations in cases where conditions on the ground have
deteriorated or improved. To build a stable peace, it is argued here, it is important to take the measure of peace.
About the author
Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations, University of OxfordRichard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on international organizations and conflict management, specifically on post-conflict peace and state-building. He is the author of International Governance of War-Torn Territories (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the editor of Exit Strategies and State Building (OUP, 2012) and Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (OUP, 1996). He has served as a Specialist-Advisor to the Select Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons, a consultant to the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States.
Richard Caplan
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Conceptualizing Peace
2:From Conception to Practice
3:Assessing Progress
4:Factors of Post-Conflict Peace Stabilization
5:Measuring Peace Consolidation
Conclusion
Richard Caplan
Description
How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace?
More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile, the international community expends billions of dollars and deploys tens of thousands of personnel each year in support of efforts to build peace in countries emerging from violent conflict.
This book argues that efforts to build peace are hampered by the lack of effective means of assessing progress towards the achievement of a consolidated peace. Rarely,
if ever, do peacebuilding organizations and governments seek to ascertain the quality of the peace that they are helping to build and the contribution that their engagement is making (or not) to the consolidation of peace. More rigorous assessments of the robustness of peace are needed. These assessments require clarity about the characteristics of, and the requirements for, a stable peace. This in turn requires knowledge of the local culture, local history, and the specific conflict dynamics at work in a given conflict situation. Better assessment can inform peacebuilding actors in the reconfiguration and reprioritization of their operations in cases where conditions on the ground have
deteriorated or improved. To build a stable peace, it is argued here, it is important to take the measure of peace.
About the author
Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations, University of OxfordRichard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on international organizations and conflict management, specifically on post-conflict peace and state-building. He is the author of International Governance of War-Torn Territories (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the editor of Exit Strategies and State Building (OUP, 2012) and Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (OUP, 1996). He has served as a Specialist-Advisor to the Select Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons, a consultant to the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States.
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Conceptualizing Peace
2:From Conception to Practice
3:Assessing Progress
4:Factors of Post-Conflict Peace Stabilization
5:Measuring Peace Consolidation
Conclusion
Justin Gest
Ali Ansari
Gil Loescher
Harry Sidebottom
Klaus Dodds
Serge Michailof
L. Sandy Maisel, Jennifer A. Yoder
Michael Freeden
Kevin Passmore
Alex Prichard
