Cosmologisms?
John Keane, Global Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, 2003, www.cambridge.org ,ISBN 0 521 89462 X paperback pp.220
Fog of Journalism
Randeep Ramesh (edit), The War We Could Not Stop, Faber and Faber 2003, pp303 ISBN 0-571-22110-6
Hawks v Reformists
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, W.W.Norton, 2003 pp.214
ISBN 0-393-05775-5
Amin Saikal, Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation? Palgrave MacMillan, 2003 pp. 171 ISBN 1-4039-0358-1
Doing Good
Doing Good Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/26/2004 Conflict, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding: Meeting the Challenges By Maria Lange and Mick Quinn, December 2003, International Alert To the authors of this 28 pamphlet Do No Harm as a peg to hang humanitarian intervention is not exactly satisfactory. They are […]
Books Received II
Books Received II Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 09/20/2004 Recent Books Received Two on Terrorism..By and Against the State Yevgeny Primakov, A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twent-First Century, Brookings Institution Press, 204, pp. 150 The author was Russian prime minsiter 1998-9, and like Putin, was heavily involved in […]
Developing Afghanistan: Past Experiences from Jack Maresca
Developing Afghanistan: Past Experiences from Jack Maresca Author: Interview conducted by Nicole Loschke- PCM Assistant Editor Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 12/07/2009 Q: Knowing what you know about the development of Afghanistan and reflecting back on the political climate after the Cold War, compared to now, how do you see Afghanistan […]
Human Security as a Measure of Peace Building
Victor Valle prefaces his Central American Diary with an historical summary
Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies
How to rebuild societies after wars in order to achieve sustainable peace has been a key question in the international community since the end of the Cold War. With numerous interventions to halt intrastate conflicts and prevent a return to war, international practitioners and academics alike have sought clear answers to how to ensure stability and peace once the guns fall silent. Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies offers an expansive discussion of the various aspects of the peace-building process and the numerous challenges to addressing them. However, Peacebuilding still falls short of answering that key question of which policies work and under which conditions.
Poor Africa
Martin Meredith tells the fascinating and horrifying tale of the last 50 years of African history in The Fate of Africa: From the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair. The book is exhaustive and exhausting, and leaves one wondering where to turn for new hope.
Profit Meets Self-reliance
C.K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Wharton School Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-13-146750-6, pp. 401 plus CD