Ethnic Groups in Conflict

Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution

	"This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust. It now sits prominently on my bookshelf."
	—Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

	"The Handbook of Conflict Resolution offers an astonishing array of insightful articles on theory and practice by leading scholars and practitioners. Students, professors, and professionals alike can learn a great deal from studying this Handbook."
	—William Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University; coauthor, Getting to Yes and author, The Third Side

	"Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, and Eric Marcus put together a handbook that will be helpful to many. I hope the book will reach well beyond North America to contribute to the growing worldwide interest in the constructive resolution of conflict. This book offers instructive ways to make this commitment a reality."
	—George J. Mitchell, Former majority leader of the United States Senate; former chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland and the International Fact-Finding Committee on Violence in the Middle East; chairman of the board, Walt Disney Company; senior fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

	"Let's be honest. This book is just too big to carry around in your hand. But that's because it is loaded with the most critical essays linking the theory and practice of conflict resolution. The Handbook of Conflict Resolution is heavy on content and should be a well-referenced resource on the desk of every mediator—as it is on mine."
	—Johnston Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman and Mediation Services, United Nations

The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice

That rebels face a collective action problem is one of the most widely shared assumptions in the literature on civil wars. The authors argue that the collective action paradigm can be both descriptively inaccurate and analytically misleading when it comes to civil wars. They question both pillars of the paradigm as applied to the study of civil wars, namely, the free-riding incentive generated by the public goods dimension of insurgency and the risks of individual participation in insurgent collective action. The authors argue, instead, that although insurgent collective action may entail the expectation of future collective benefits, public (rather than just private) costs tend to predominate in the short term. Moreover, the costs of nonparticipation and free riding may equal or even exceed those of participation. The authors support these claims by triangulating three types of evidence: historical evidence from counterinsurgency operations in several civil wars; data from the Vietnam War's Phoenix Program; and regional evidence from the Greek Civil War. They conclude by drawing implications for the study of civil wars.

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How "Free" Is Free Riding in Civil Wars?: Violence, Insurgency, and the Collective Action Problem

The politics of life and death is explored from the perspective of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres [MSF]), an activist nongovernmental organization explicitly founded to respond to health crises on a global scale. Following the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I underline key intersections between MSF's operations that express concern for human life in the midst of humanitarian disaster and the group's self-proclaimed ethic of engaged refusal. Adopting the analytic frame of biopolitics, I suggest that the actual practice of medical humanitarian organizations in crisis settings presents a fragmentary and uncertain form of such power, extended beyond stable sovereignty and deployed within a restricted temporal horizon.

Doctors, Borders, and Life in Crisis

Please see the new, replacement volume "Leashing the Dogs of War."Like its predecessor, " Managing Global Chaos, " this comprehensive volume explores the sources of contemporary conflict and the vast array of possible responses to it. The authors 50 of the most influential and innovative analysts of international affairs present multiple perspectives on how best to prevent, manage, or resolve conflicts around the world.In the five years since "Managing Global Chaos" was published, the geopolitical landscape has changed in significant ways and we have learned important lessons. "Turbulent Peace" underlines the volatility and vulnerability of states and peoples in a world that is both increasingly interconnected and ever more differentiated and decentralized in its political and social structures. Four new themes emerge from "Turbulent Peace: " the return of geopolitics; the recognition that different societies require different peacemaking strategies; the pull and tug between conflict management and post-conflict governance issues, such as democratization; and the understanding that creating a sustainable peace is as difficult as making peace in the first place.Although this volume features many of the contributors to "Managing Global Chaos" (in most cases with updated and revised chapters), almost 70 percent of the contributors are new. The editors commissioned the new essays to address emergent themes in conflict analysis and management, to offer a wide range of viewpoints in contentious areas, and to respond to feedback from readers and the needs of educators. The result is a volume of unparalleled breadth and depth, an invaluable resource for teachers and students no less than for practitioners and policymakers."

Turbulent peace : the challenges of managing international conflict

Part 1 Multiparty mediation - concepts, issues, strategies, and actors: introduction to multiparty mediation multiparty mediation and the conflict cycle the practitioner's perspective. Part 2 Conflict prevention and aversion: the role of the OSCE High Commissioner in conflict prevention, Max van der Stoel Canada and the crisis in Eastern Zaire, Gordon Smith and John Hay managing potential conflicts in the South China Sea - informal diplomacy as process, Hasjim Djalal and Ian Townsend-Gault Burundi - parallel diplomacy or the policy of nonindifference, Fabienne Hara. Part 3 Ending violent conflict: the road to Madrid, James A. Baker III the Oslo accords - multiparty facilitation through the Norwegian Channel, Jan Egeland peacemaking in Southern Africa - the Namibia-Angola settlement of 1988, Chester Crocker more and less than it seemed - the Carter-Nunn-Powell mediation in Haiti, 1994, Robert Pastor the road to Sarajevo, Richard Holbrooke bringing peace to Cambodia, Richard H. Solomon ending violent conflict in El Salvador, Alvaro de Soto Angola - the Lusaka peace process, Paul J. Hare Haiti - Canada's role in the OAS, Barbara McDougall Northern Ireland - the Good Friday Agreement, John de Chastelain the Ecuador-Peru peace process, Luigi R. Einaudi Mozambicans negotiating through third parties - the role of the community of St Egidio, Andrea Bartoli the multilevel peace process in Tajikistan, Harold Saunders multiparty mediation in Northern Ireland, Paul Arthur. Part 4 Implementation and peacebuilding: a Bosnia federation memoir, Dan Serwer the United Nations in Angola -post-Bicesse implementation, Margaret Joan Anstee Mozambique -implementation of the 1992 Peace Agreement, Aldo Ajello.

Herding cats : multiparty mediation in a complex world

Among the unwelcome legacies of the past century are a group of conflicts, both intrastate and interstate, that seem destined never to end. From Kashmir to Nagorno-Karabakh, Colombia to Sudan, the Korean Peninsula to the Middle East, these deeply entrenched, intermittently violent conflicts have so far resisted all outside efforts to resolve them.What lessons aside from the apparent futility of mediation can such dismal situations possibly offer? As the distinguished contributors to "Grasping the Nettle" make plain, this is not a rhetorical question. Unyielding conflicts offer numerous insights not only about the sources of intractability but also about such facets of mediation and conflict management as how to gain leverage, when to engage and disengage, how to balance competing goals, and who to enlist to play supporting roles.The first part of this eye-opening volume identifies and analyzes the defining characteristics and underlying dynamics of intractable conflicts. The second part turns the spotlight on no fewer than eight current cases, in each instance chronicling the conflict's evolution, evaluating the internal and external factors that have conspired to prevent a settlement, and assessing whether past peacemaking initiatives have in fact only aggravated the conflict. The conclusion makes the point that even intractable conflicts eventually end and highlights the strategic approaches and tactical steps that have yielded success in the past for mediators and conflict managers from governments, international organizations, and NGOs."

Grasping the nettle : analyzing cases of intractable conflict

"Leashing the Dogs of War" receives Outstanding Academic Title Award by the library journal CHOICE. Read the CHOICE review at http: //www.usip.org/newsmedia/ crocker_hampson_all/index.html. Since "Turbulent Peace" was first published in 2001, the international landscape has changed profoundly. "Leashing the Dogs of War" replaces its well-established predecessor as the definitive volume on the sources of contemporary conflict and the array of possible responses to it. The authors more than forty of the most influential and innovative analysts of international affairs present multiple perspectives on how best to prevent, manage, or resolve conflicts around the world. "Leashing the Dogs of War" assesses the nature and extent of the changes wrought by 9/11 and its aftermath, and explores their wide-ranging implications. For the United States, of course, the changes have been dramatic. It has engaged in a war on terrorism and has become both a third party in certain conflict arenas and a direct party to the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. But these events have also affected other actors, from the United Nations to humanitarian NGOs to collective defense and security organizations such as NATO and the OSCE.At the same time, some things have not changed. Failed states, economic stagnation, weapons proliferation, nuclear missiles, and identity-based conflicts continue to threaten global security. Looking at the combination of old and new threats, are traditional instruments of negotiation, mediation, peacekeeping and peace enforcement still effective in managing and resolving conflict? How do conflict management efforts and the campaign against terrorism interact in various security environments? Are our institutions be they states, coalitions of the willing, international organizations, or NGOs capable of creating and implementing a peacemaking strategy? All these questions are addressed in this new volume.Authoritative, provocative, and insightful, "Leashing the Dogs of War" offers an unparalleled breadth and depth of analysis of conflict in today s world. It is a must read not only for students of international relations and conflict resolution but also for anyone in government and outside seeking to understand the dynamics of contemporary conflict and the best means of resolving it."

Pamela Aall

Papers

Turbulent peace : the challenges of managing international conflict

Herding cats : multiparty mediation in a complex world

Grasping the nettle : analyzing cases of intractable conflict

Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World

Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict.