Overview
In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called ‘low intensity conflicts’. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed conflicts are no longer the affair of state governments and their armies. In their place appear police-like armed units,security services and secret services, groups and organizations of religious, political and social fanatics ready to resort to violence, 'militias', bands of mercenaries, or just gangs of thugs, led by the condottiere of the 21st century, consisting of militant charismatics, militia 'generals', 'drug barons' and 'warlords' of various kinds. They conduct wars in which the soldiers no longer wear uniforms and there is no meeting of armies in open battle. The armed organizations fight in urban agglomerations and in difficult, inaccessible regions. The combatants fight for religion and quasi-religious ideologies, for the 'rights of the people' or 'national liberation', for power, gain, and booty, and above all for recognition. For the practice of peace, this kind of war has far-reaching consequences. In this book the authors examine various paths to peace and reconciliation in low intensity conflicts. They look at processes of peace making from South Africa and the North of Mali to Indonesia and South East Asia. Common to most studies is that they stress the particular local contexts of peace making tied to the highly localized nature of most low intensity conflicts. The logic of peace has become a logic of local and regional power. The articles shed new light not only on ways and chances of interventions by the international community but also on the role of nongovernmental organisations in violent conflicts.
Full Product Details
Author: Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) ,
Trutz von Trotha ,
Trutz Von Trotha ,
Rosemary Hunter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Volume: 10
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.422kg
ISBN: 9781841134697
ISBN 10: 1841134694
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 20 October 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Each essay in the collection tends to be learned, detailed, and carefully documented, so it is difficult to do justice to the whole volume in a brief review...a valuable contribution..the authors offer convincing evidence of the importance of legal anthropology in peace-building efforts.. -- Michael True * International Journal on World Peace, Vol XXII, No 1 *
Each essay in the collection tends to be learned, detailed, and carefully documented, so it is difficult to do justice to the whole volume in a brief review...a valuable contribution..the authors offer convincing evidence of the importance of legal anthropology in peace-building efforts.. --International Journal on World Peace, Vol XXII, No 1
Author Information
Marie-Claire Foblets is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the Universities of Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp and Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven. Trutz von Trotha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen, Germany.
