The War Next Door: Study of Second Track Interventions During the War in Ex-Yugoslavia (Special Issue of "Peace & Conflict") - Softcover

Large, Judy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869890973 ISBN 13: 9781869890971

Publisher: Hawthorn Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hawthorn Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1869890973
• ISBN 13: 9781869890971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160