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| Author: | Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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| Publisher: | A CFR Book. The Century Fund |
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Release Date: June 1998
120
ISBN 0870784129
$11.95
In 1996, there were violent intrastate conflicts in ninety countries around the world. Governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and scholars continue to investigate how these deadly conflicts can be prevented. In order to assess what has been learned about conflict prevention and encourage further examination of cases and strategies, the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) of the Council on Foreign Relations convenes an annual
conference. CPA's December 1996 Conference on Preventive Action examined three regions where CPA has programs—Nigeria, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, and the South Balkans— and three tools of prevention—religion, economic sanctions and incentives, and small weapons disarmament.
This conference volume is the second book in CPA's series of Preventive Action Reports. It uses CPA's case studies to examine the effectiveness of the tools of preventive action, and draws on comparative studies to guide the analysis of the case studies. Included: Edward J. Laurance of the Monterey Institute of International Studies on small weapons disarmament; David Cortright of the Fourth Freedom Forum and George Lopez of the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, on the use of economic sanctions and incentives; Reverend Donald Shriver of Union Theological Seminary on
religion and violence prevention; Steven Burg of Brandeis University on the South Balkans; Michael Lund of Creative Associates International on Burundi and the Great Lakes region of Central Africa; and Peter Lewis of American University on Nigeria.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction: Experience in Prevention
2. Nationalism and Civic Identity: Ethnic Models for Macedonia and Kosovo
3. Learning from Burundi's Failed Democratic Transistion, 1993-96: Did
International Initiatives Match the Problem?
4. Nigeria: The Challenge of Preventative Action
5. Carrots, Sticks, and Cooperation: Economic Tools of Statecraft
6. Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Conflict Prevention: The New Post-Cold
War Logic of Disarmament
7. Religion and Violence Prevention
Appendix A. Program: Center for Preventative Action's Third Annual Conference
Appendix B. Directories of Organizations Working in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Appendix C. Selected Bibliography
Appendix D. Authors' Biographies
Appendix E. Advisory Board of the Center for Preventative Action
Notes
Index
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