Overview

This study is based on participative field research in Serbia, Croatia,, Eastern Slavonia and latterly Bosnia between 1992 and 1996. It addresses the nature and impact of second-track interventions, with particular emphasis on: local strategies for preventing the escalation of violence; capacity building for peace amid structural conduciveness for war; the transition from new social movements to NGO formations; tenstions between the therapeutic and direct action approaches to conflict resolution; and dilemmas in training and engagement, for example, the facilitation versus empowerment debate. The book should be of interest to practitioners, policy-makers, students of development, international relations, conflict analysis and peach-building. International relations students should be particularly interested in this analysis of the role of non-official actors in determining (or not) the course of war or the building of peace. Development students should find the study combines development theory and international realizations in analyzing a complex political emergency.

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Author:   Judy Large
Publisher:   Hawthorn Press
Imprint:   Hawthorn Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.552kg
ISBN:  

9781869890971

ISBN 10:   1869890973
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 The war next door: the onset of war - international response; mediation; intervention; other actors; project objectives; background and analytical framework; development; conflict resolution; methodology. Part 2 Contextualizing intervention: on people and paradigms - international relations theory and approaches to intervention; view from real life ; from theory to action; levels of operationality; track one; track two; conclusion. Part 3 Responses to war: protest; the importance of networking and the problem of patriotism; everyday resistance; group formation and issue areas; accessing the network. Part 4 Contexts and conductivity: the powder keg experience of war; understanding contexts; regional profiles; complexity in actors and processes; local initiatives; structural conduciveness and local capacity building. Part 5 The intervenors: second track intervention; the intervenors; aid; advocacy; communications; education and training; facilitation; mediation. negotiation; reconstruction; therapeutic work; witness. Part 6 Conflict resolution - contested concept: introduction; conflict resolution - theory and practice; levels of application; active problem solving; dilemmas of training; training the trainers; attitudes; process consultation; social learning. Part 7 Civil society - contested concept 2: Debates on civil society - the people themselves ; historical interpretations; contemporary meanings; culture and militarism; war preparedness; the idea of culture; penal code versus participation - the legacy of dissidence; control and use of the media; from social movements to NGOs; from protest to proposal writing; the problems with NGOs; conclusion. Part 8 The question of impact: impact analysis - preliminary thoughts; the need for evaluation; the dangers of obsession with evaluation - the value of learning; participatory appraisal; thoughts on the big picture -second track intervention, communications and facilitation; the allocation of resources; advocacy and witness; humanitarian aid -mixed findings; focus on east Slavonic; conclusion.

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Judith Large is a Fellow of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. She lectures for the University of Coventry programme on International Disaster Management and is a consultant to several relief and development agencies including recent work with the World Health Organisation in Bosnia. Research for this book was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

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