Theory and Practice for Peacemakers
At its best Contemporary Peacemaking treads the uneasy terrain between theory and practice, forging the types of links that are absolutely essential for the comparative work the editors quite clearly believe is of use for peace processes. There is much work to be done in this zone between the comfortable categorizations of unimpeded theory and the at times ad hoc sensibilities of those used to getting things done in the field with a bit of duct tape and a wire hanger.
John Darby & Roger MacGinty (eds) Contemporary Peacekeeping: Conflict, Violence & Peace Proceses, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003, pp. 296 ISBN 1-4039-0138-4 (Hardback)
Dumb, Stupid Animals to be Used
Dumb, Stupid Animals to be Used Author: Kim Petersen Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 07/04/2007 Category: Book Review Home Front: The Government’s War on Soldiers By Rick Anderson (Clarity Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-932863-41-8 Rick Anderson, a reporter for Seattle Weekly, opens his book, Home Front: The Government’s War on Soldiers, by referring […]
Reader Responces
Reader Responces Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 11/01/2007 Category: Letters to the Editor Re: Buildings Walls inthe Free World Sorry, but having a border fence is not offensive. It’s just a fence. Good fences make for good neighbors, right? Seriously, there was fence that separated East and West Germany, right? […]
Love in a Headscarf: Muslim Woman Seeks the One
“Love in a Headscarf: Muslim Woman Seeks the One” Book Reviewed by Ethar El-Katatney
Machete Season
Why individuals willingly participated in the Rwanda Genocide is a question that has been widely asked and widely begged by multiple books on the subject. Consisting of transcribed interviews with ten different perpetrators of the genocide, Machete Season still only brushes the heart of the matter: that “why” that historians of such atrocities will always ask themselves.
Cold Peace
A Russian scholar presents an exhaustive examination of American public opinion toward Russia, from 1920 to the present day. An essential book for the libraries of experts and policy makers.
Democracy and peace: an over-emphasized relationship
This essay revisits the classical argument of democratic-peace in reference to more recent political events, including the US and UK led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and concludes that democracy in and of itself is an insufficient indicator of a given state’s likelihood of engaging in war. The message of this argument takes on an extra dimension of meaning in light of the recent conflict in Georgia.
Education is a bridge which connects human ability to abstract concepts
The case of children who are able to write excellently but are not able to read their own writing.
Exclusion in the Dutch Educational System
This paper analyses the opportunities (or lack there of) granted to ‘the disabled’ through the current educational system. Lieke Scheewe reflects on her personal experiences and analysis of the Dutch educational system. Scheewe then adapts these findings into suggestions and possibilities to create a culture of peace through equally accessible education for all people- including the disabled.
Getting Away With Murder: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
After 30 years, a tribunal has finally been established to bring some of those responsible for the Khmer Rouge attrocities to justice. As Sopheada Phy demonstrates, however, the limited scope and poor design of this tribunal will ensure that the justice served will be superficial at best, as many of those, both inside and outside of Cambodia, who supported and sustained the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge, will not be called to account for their crimes.