Violence and Reconstruction (The RIREC Project on Post-Accord Peace Building)

John Darby (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0268025886 / ISBN 13: 9780268025885

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

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Focusing on the effects of violence in internal conflicts after peace agreements have been signed, this book adopts a four-part analysis, examining in turn violence emanating from the state, from militants, from destabilized societies, and from the challenge of implementing a range of issues including demobilization, disarmament, and policing. Series: RIREC Project in Post-accord Peacebuilding S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFFE; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263. . 2005. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Violence and Reconstruction (The RIREC Project on Post-Accord Peace Building)
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268025886
• ISBN 13: 9780268025885
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This is the first book to focus on the effects of violence in internal conflicts after peace agreements have been signed. Since the mid-1990s many peace processes, including those in Israel-Palestine, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland, have reverted to violence while seeking to implement formal peace agreements. In all these cases the persistence and forms of violence have been among the main determinants of the success or failure of the peace process. Violence and Reconstruction adopts a four-part analysis, examining in turn violence emanating from the state, from militants, from destabilized societies, and from the challenge of implementing a range of policies including demobilization, disarmament, and policing. Leading scholars explore in detail each of these aspects of postwar violence. Their findings draw attention to the increased willingness of the state to turn to militias to carry on violence by proxy; to the importance of distinguishing between the aims and actions of different militant groups; to a postwar rise in violent conventional crime; and to the importance of the proper restoration of civil society.

About the Author

John Darby is professor of comparative ethnic studies at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, where he is Research Director and heads the Research Initiative for the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC).