Review: International Relations: Building Peace
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300425 |
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
The
co-authors
of
this
book
are
BUILDING
PEACE
among
the most
innovative
thinkers
Sustainable
reconciliation
in
divid-
in
Europe
in
the
international
rela-
ed
societies
tions
field.
Barry Buzan,
the
senior
John
Paul
Lederach
contributor,
is
especially
noted
for
Washington
DC:
United
States
Institute
his
recent
work
on
regional
security
of
Peace,
1997,
224
pp,
US$32.50
complexes,
and
it
is
not
too
difficult
cloth,
US$14.95
paper
to
see
his
hand
in
the intellectual
underpinnings
of
this
volume.
The
Jean
Paul
Lederach
is
a
leader
in
the
book attempts
to
address
an
on-
practice
and
theory
of
conflict
reso-
going debate
in
the
security studies
lution.
This
highly
accessible
vol-
field:
whether
to
construe
the
notion
ume
is
an
expanded
and
reworked
of'security'
in
narrow, traditional
edition
of
an
earlier
volume
initially
military
and
strategic terms, or
published
by
the
United Nations
whether
to expand
the
concept
to
University
in
1994.
Much
of
its
include
'new'
problem
areas
such
as
content
reflects
Lederach's
experi-
the
environment and
economics.
ence
in
conflict
resolution
training
The
authors
offer
a
synthesis
of
in
war-torn
societies
such
as
Soma-
these two
positions,
suggesting
that
lia,
Colombia,
Nicaragua,
Northern
'core'
security
issues
such
as
war
and
Ireland, the
Philippines,
and
the
the
use
of
force
can
be
incorporated
Basque
region
of
Spain.
The author
into
a
broader,
sectoral
analysis
of
makes
a
persuasive
case
that
peace-
security
that
encompasses
much
of
building
in
situations
of
protracted
the
new
security agenda.
Their
social
conflict
must
engage
all
sec-
framework
is
useful
for
understand-
tors
of
society
and
that
conflict
res-
ing the
interplay
among
various
fac-
olution,
if
it
is
to
be
successful,
tors
and
forces
operating
at
the
must
create
the
necessary
space
in
social,
economic,
environmental,
which
parties
can
focus
on
their
and
military
levels
of
international
relationship
in
three
dimensions:
affairs.
Like
many
other
security
past,
present,
and
future.
There
is
analysts,
they
conclude
that
much
much
useful
and
practical
advice
in
greater
attention
has
to
be
paid to
this volume
not
only
about
the
vari-
subsystemic
forces
in
international
ous
ways
third
parties
can
gain
politics,
especially
at
the
regional
entry into
a
conflict,
but
also
the
level,
now
that
the
cold war
is
over.
different
methods
and
techniques
of
Unlike
the
others,
however,
they
conflict
resolution
and
self-evalua-
offer
a
novel
and
interesting
way
to
tion.
For
those
who
are
serious
conceptualize
and
think
about
the
about
peacebuilding,
this
book
is
regionalization
of
global
security,
simply indispensable.
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