New Book: Building Peace Practical Reflections From the Field
http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=208798
Edited by Craig Zelizer , Robert A. Rubinstein
"This volume provides an enlightening, encouraging, and fascinating
set of reports about effective peacebuilding endeavors. These accounts
and assessments were written by persons directly engaged in each
undertaking and yield valuable lessons. Certainly, these highly
diverse actions deserve widespread attention and frequent emulation."
-- Louis Kriesberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor
Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Syracuse University
"Building Peace presents a rich set of case studies of courage in
peacebuilding that should inspire another generation of peacemakers.
The authors provide a great variety of blueprints for communities,
nations and multi-cultural groups dealing with the aftermath or
reduction of ongoing and often violent conflicts. That the case
studies come from such diverse areas demonstrates that having multiple
approaches and processes in our peacemaking toolkit makes
peacebuilding possible in widely divergent cultural and geopolitical
settings. There is much to be learned here for practitioners, students
and teachers of peace. It will make a great contribution to courses on
conflict resolution, prevention and handling and on post-conflict
peacebuilding analysis and practice."
-- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and
Civil Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center and author of
Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model
"This book neatly brings together various methodologies, an impressive
range of local and international settings and a number of time frames
to give a powerful response to a real "demand" on peacebuilding today:
How do we assess the successes (and failures) of what we do? Bravo to
Drs. Craig Zelizer, Robert Rubinstein, their colleagues -- and to the
Alliance for Peacebuilding in supporting this initiative."
-- William R. Headley, Dean, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies,
University of San Diego
Even though international peacebuilding has rapidly expanded in the
last two decades to respond to more multi-faceted and complex
conflicts, the field has lagged behind in documenting the impact and
success of projects. To help address this gap, the Alliance for
Peacebuilding, one of the leading networks in the field, has brought
together 13 stories of innovative peacebuilding practices from around
the world in Building Peace.
While the projects covered are diverse in nature, together they
demonstrate the significant impact of peacebuilding work. Contributors
created new institutions to prevent and manage conflicts at the local
or national levels, helped restore relationships in conflict-affected
communities, and empowered citizens to work for positive change in
their societies across ethnic, religious, and political divides.
It's clear that there is no quick fix for violence but this volume
will go a long way in providing inspiration and practical tools for
policymakers, academics and practitioners who seek to make significant
and valuable contributions towards achieving peace.
Craig Zelizer is the Associate Director of the Master of Arts in
Conflict Resolution Program within the Department of Government at
Georgetown University and a Senior Partner with the Alliance for
Conflict Transformation. He has over 15 years experience in
peacebuilding activities around the world, including assessment,
training, dialogue, capacity building and evaluation work. He has
published several articles on trauma and peacebuilding, arts and
peacebuilding, and careers in international peace and conflict
resolution. He is also the founder of the Peace and <http://internationalpeaceandconflict.org/
> Collaborative Development Network, a leading online platform to
bring together scholars and practitioners working on international
conflict. He holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from
George Mason University.
Robert A. Rubinstein is professor of anthropology and international
relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, where from
1994-2005 he directed the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of
Conflicts. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the State
University of New York at Binghamton, and his Ms.P.H. from the
University of Illinois School of Public Health. His research focuses
on cultural aspects of dispute settlement, international health, and
the anthropological study of peacekeeping. He is a founding member and
current Co-Chair of the Commission on Peace and Human Rights of the
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. He
has published more than 85 journal articles and book chapters and is
author or editor of 7 books, most recently Peacekeeping Under Fire:
Culture and Intervention.
CONTENTS
1) Introduction: Peacebuilding: Creating Structure and Capacity for
Peace Craig Zelizer and Robert A. Rubinstein;
2) Taming the Beast: Interethnic Conflict and Accord in Post -
Communist Europe - Allen H. Kassof;
3) The Institution as Innovator: Laying the Foundation for Peaceful
Change - Beth Glick and Laina Reynolds Levy;
4) An 85 Percent Settlement Rate and a 91 Percent Compliance Rate: But
what Happened to the Rest and Why? - William F. Lincoln, Alexander
Karpenko, Lena Ivanova, Olga Allahverdova, Polly Davis, Dawn Hooper
with Seth Kane and Terra D. M. Evans;
5) Designing Dispute Resolution Systems for Settling Land and Property
Disputes in Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Societies - Christopher
Moore and Gary Brown;
6) Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts:
Strengthening Peace-building Capacity through The Brandeis
International Fellowship Program - Cynthia Cohen;
7) Partners in Peacebuilding in Lesotho - John Davies, Wubalem Fekade,
'Mamphekeleli Hoohlo, Edy Kaufman, and Mamochaki Shale;
8) Combining Empathy with Problem Solving: The Tamra Model of
Facilitation in Israel - Eileen F. Babbitt and Pamela Pomerance
Steiner with Jabir Asaqla, Chassia Chomsky-Porat and Shirli Kirschner;
9) Health Bridges for Peace: The Medical Network for Social
Reconstruction in the Former Yugoslavia - Paula Gutlove;
10) Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Grupo
EKOLELO in Angola - Heather Kulp;
11) Management of Multi-cultural Communities in Crimea - Karina
Korostelina;
12) Building Peace in Thin Air: The Case of Search for Common Ground's
Talking Drum Studio in Sierra Leone - Marco Konings & Ambrose James;
13) The Dynamism of Shared Success in Abkhaz: Georgian Peacebuilding -
Paula Garb and Susan Allen Nan;
14) Promoting Ethnic Tolerance and Cultural Inclusion in Macedonia:
The Tetovo Educators Project - Paula Green and Olivia Stokes Dreier
320 pp., 6" x 9", May 2009
Published by Kumarian Press
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Date: 21 April 2009 10:42:17 BST
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Subject: NEW BOOK BUILDING PEACE PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD
(including a chapter on Refugee/IDPs and Land Conflict Issues in Sri
Lanka, Guatemala and E. Timor)
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