Challenges to peacebuilding : managing spoilers during conflict resolution / edited by Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond.

ISBN:

9789280811261

9781429441674

9781280915765

Title:

Challenges to peacebuilding : managing spoilers during conflict resolution / edited by Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond.

Author:

Newman, Edward, 1970-

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 329 pages)

Contents:

Introduction : obstacles to peace processes : understanding spoiling / Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond -- Part I: Spoiling, violence and mediation. Internal and external dynamics of spoiling : a negotiation approach / Karin Aggestam -- Understanding the violence of insiders : loyalty, custodians of peace, and the sustainability of conflict settlement / Marie-Joëlle Zahar -- The linkage between devious objectives and spoiling behaviour in peace processes / Oliver Richmond -- Terrorism as a tactic of spoilers in peace processes / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Spoilers or catalysts? : the role of diasporas in peace processes / Yossi Shain and Ravinatha P. Aryasinha -- "New wars" and spoilers / Edward Newman -- Part II: Cases. Northern Ireland : a peace process thwarted by accidential spoiling / Roger Mac Ginty -- Why do peace processes collapse? : the Basque conflict and the three-spoilers perspective / Daniele Conversi -- Peace on whose terms? : war veterans' associations in Bosnia and Hercegovina / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic -- Spoilers in Colombia : actors and strategies / Carlo Nasi -- The Israeli-Palestinian peace process : the strategic art of deception / Magnus Ranstorp -- Spoiling peace in Cyprus / Nathalie Tocci -- The Abkhazia and South Ossetia cases : spoilers in a nearly collapsed peace process / George Khutsishvili -- Spoilers and devious objectives in Kashmir / Jaideep Saiia.

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Subject Term:

Peace-building.

Conflict management.

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Newman, Edward, 1970-

Richmond, Oliver P.

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Publication Date:

2006

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Summary

Many ceasefires and peace agreements in civil conflict are initially unsuccessful. Some give way to renewed, and often escalating, violence. In other cases, peace processes have become lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare. Given the huge material and human costs of a failed peace process, the international community has a strong interest in helping these processes succeed. Challenges to Peacebuilding approaches this problem by focusing on "spoilers"-- groups and tactics that attempt to obstruct or undermine conflict settlement through a variety of means, including terrorism and violence. Drawing upon experience from Northern Ireland, the Basque region, Bosnia, Colombia, Israel-Palestine, Cyprus, the Caucasus, and Kashmir, it considers why spoilers and spoiling behavior emerge and how they can be addressed. This volume considers a broad range of actors as potential spoilers: not only rebel groups and insurgents, but also diasporas, governments, and other entities. It also demonstrates that ill-conceived or imposed peace processes can themselves sow the seeds of spoiling.

Author Notes

Edward Newman is the director of studies on conflict and security in the Peace and Governance Program of the United Nations University. Oliver Richmond is professor of international relations and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St. Andrews.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Fourteen academics from a diverse group of countries have contributed to this United Nations University volume. The contributors explore why most cease-fire and peace agreements in civil wars are initially unsuccessful. They deal with both theoretical concerns and concrete application in case studies. Their focus is on the "spoilers"--groups that seek to subvert the efforts of those seeking a peace agreement. The volume takes a broad view of those spoilers and finds they make positive as well as negative contributions to the resolution of domestic conflict. In the first six chapters, the volume lays out in broad general discussion the roles of the spoilers. Then focus shifts to case studies in such diverse places as Northern Ireland, the Basque region, the former Yugoslavia, Colombia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Cyprus, Abkhazia-South Ossetia, and Kashmir. The conclusions aim to assist those seeking peaceful resolutions to anticipate and sometimes to employ the actions of spoilers to reach a just and lasting settlement of disputes. A useful work, this belongs in the conflict resolution collections of major university libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. J. A. Rhodes Luther College