Suchergebnisse

Preparing for nation-building -- The military -- The police -- Rule of law -- Humanitarian relief -- Governance -- Economic stabilization -- Democratization -- Development -- Conclusion: the cost of nation building -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors

Why are some regions prone to war while others remain at peace? What conditions cause regions to move from peace to war and vice versa? This book offers a novel theoretical explanation for the differences and transitions between war and peace. The author distinguishes between 'hot' and 'cold' outcomes, depending on intensity of the war or the peace, and then uses three key concepts (state, nation, and the international system) to argue that it is the specific balance between states and nations in different regions that determines the hot or warm outcomes: the lower the balance, the higher the war proneness of the region, while the higher the balance, the warmer the peace. The theory of regional war and peace developed in this book is examined through case-studies of the post-1945 Middle East, the Balkans and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and post-1945 Western Europe

Introduction : Searching for peace in the ancient world / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Making war and making peace in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- Ancient India : peace within and war without / Richard Salomon -- Water under the straw : peace in Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster -- Making, preserving, and breaking the peace with the Hittite state / Richard H. Beal -- Conflict and reconciliation in the ancient Middle East : the clash of Egyptian and Hittite chariots in Syria, and the world's first peace treaty between "Superpowers" / Lanny Bell -- From Achaemenid imperial order to Sasanian diplomacy : war, peace, and reconciliation in pre-Islamic Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer -- War and reconciliation in the traditions of ancient Israel : historical, literary, and ideological considerations / Susan Niditch -- "They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : a vision of peace through justice and its background in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas Krüger -- "Laughing for joy" : war and peace among the Greeks / Lawrence A. Tritle -- War and reconciliation in Greek literature / David Konstan -- War, peace, and international law in ancient Greece / Victor Alonso -- War and peace, fear and reconciliation at Rome / Nathan Rosenstein -- The price of peace in ancient Rome / Carlin A. Barton -- The gates of war (and peace) : Roman literary perspectives / Jeri DeBrohun -- Early Christian views on violence, war, and peace / Louis J. Swift -- Fight for God, but do so with kindness : reflections on war, peace, and communal identity in early Islam / Fred M. Donner -- Peace, reconciliation, and alliance in Aztec Mexico / Ross Hassig -- War and peace in the Inca heartland / Catherine Julien -- The long peace among Iroquois nations / Neta C. Crawford

Introduction: history education and sociopolitical reconciliation / Elizabeth A. Cole -- As generations pass: the challenges of long-term reconciliation in history textbooks -- The trajectory of reconciliation through history education in post-unification Germany / Julian Dierkes -- Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese secondary schools / Takashi Yoshida -- Canadian history textbooks and the portrayal of Canada's first nations / Penney Clark -- Reconciliation in process -- History teaching and reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Alison Kitson -- The civil war and Franco dictatorship in Spanish secondary school history textbooks / Rafael Valls -- Education and the politics of history in Guatemala: integrating "memory of silence" into the curriculum? / Elizabeth Oglesby -- Reconciliation jeopardized, undone or not yet attained: aspirational and counter-reconciliatory cases -- Secondary school history texts: the case of Russia / Thomas Sherlock -- From confrontation to cooperation in the two Koreas: the role of history education in promoting reconciliation / Roland Bleiker -- History education and reconciliation issues in contemporary India and Pakistan / Thomas Sherlock and Jon Dorschner -- Afterward / Audrey Chapman -- Contributors

International interventions in the aftermath of mass violence tend to focus on justice and reconciliation processes, elections and institution-building. The frame of reference is at the level of the state, although the experience of mass crime by a population is also at the level of the community and individuals