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“Jeong’s rewarding framework for creating and analyzing postconflict peacebuilding strategies is illuminated by rich illustrations drawn from a wide range of recent efforts.... Penetrating insights are also provided on the complex challenges confronted by postconflict peacebuilders.” —Chadwick F. Alger, Ohio State University, former President of the International Studies Association “… a detailed and masterful analysis of the new concept of peacebuilding in post-conflict…” —Boutros Boutros- Ghali, former UN Secretary-General “Splendid.... a masterful, comprehensive assessment of peacebuilding in contemporary international relations.
The combination of overarching conceptualization and detailed case-specific discussions enables the reader to arrive at a new understanding of both the role of peacebuilding in the field and the ways in which it is actually handled.” —Juergen Dedring, formerly UN Secretariat
Abstract
This much-needed, integrative discussion of the multiple dimensions of peacebuilding in postconflict societies offers a systematic approach to strategies and processes for long-term social, political, and economic transformation. The book illustrates what needs to be done in each sector of peacebuilding: confidence building, human rights, police and security sector reform, politics of demobilization, elections, democratic transition, refugee settlement and community development, rehabilitation of war torn societies, and social and psychological processes of reconciliation and healing.
Ho-Won Jeong links short-term crisisintervention efforts to a sustained process that encompasses the entire complex environment of a conflict. His broad analytic framework and wealth of concrete examples provide a sophisticated, yet accessible, guide to the many strands and interrelations in this critical arena of world politics.
Contents
Introduction. Peacebuilding Design. Security and Demilitarization. Political Transition. Development. Reconciliation and Social Rehabilitation. Operational Imperatives and Coordination.
About the Author
Ho-Won Jeong has published extensively in the areas of conflict resolution and peacebuilding and is the founding editor of the journals Peace and Conflict Studies and International Journal of Peace Studies affiliated with the International Peace Research Association.
April 2005/ca. 260 pages
ISBN: 1-58826-335-5 / hc $55
ISBN: 1-58826-311-8 / pb $22.50
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder,
CO 80301, USA