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Recovering from Civil Conflict
A number of international contributors emphasize the conceptual and practical challenges facing post-conflict societies and the international community in the management of the transition from civil conflict to peaceful coexistence.
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Civil Society and Global Finance
This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.
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Recovering from civil conflict : reconciliation, peace, and development
This volume highlights some of the major conceptual and practical challenges facing post-conflict societies and the international community in managing transition.
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We need a sustainable development goal 18 on global health security
WHO has defined the provision of global public health security as the \"activities required...to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries\".1 Achievement of a coherent and effective approach to global health security will need clarity about the roles, responsibilities and resources of states, regional intergovernmental organisations, global intergovernmental organisations, national security sectors, civil society organisations, and other non-state associations, such as major foundations.
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Security Sector Governance and Reform: Back to Basics
Security sector reform (SSR) is an important element of interventions in transition societies. The article evaluates the concept of security sector reform and its application, and it draws lessons for future SSR activities. The article proceeds in three sections: first, the basic objectives and activities of SSR programmes and strategies are reviewed; second, challenges and lessons of applied SSR are elaborated; and, third, it is argued that most SSR activities are not implemented as intended and may even weaken their stated objectives. The article concludes with a plea for a return to SSR basics as well as a continuous engagement with the conceptual and practical development of SSR.
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Evolving Internal Roles of the Armed Forces: Lessons for Building Partner Capacity
The end of the Cold War more than two decades ago created new international realities, along with hopes and expectations for greater peace and stability worldwide. Part of that peace dividend was expected to be the result of a decrease in defense spending, with direct consequences for the size and functions of nations' armed forces. Governments and societies have been contemplating the appropriateness of newly defined or previously secondary purposes for their armed forces, which extend beyond their core role of national defense. These include the assignment of a variety of external and internal military and civilian roles and tasks. Some of these are performed as a subsidiary activity in support of operations under civilian command. An examination of the internal roles of the armed forces in 15 Western democracies shows that armed forces assist in internal security provision mainly as a resource of last resort when efforts are required to respond to exceptional situations.
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Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Second-Generation Preventive Action
In response to the human suffering and regional instability caused by internal conflicts, the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, as well as groups of concerned states, seem to be increasingly willing and able to launch interventions into states that cannot and will not provide for the security of all of their citizens, or that tolerate or instigate gross human rights violations. However, the jurisdiction and capacity of international organizations to prevent internal conflicts, successfully manage and end them once they have broken out, and prevent their re-emergence through sustainable post-conflict peacebuilding, are still weak. The contribution argues that peacebuilding is only sustainable if it embraces core principles of conflict prevention; that preventive action is more feasible (although more complex) in the post-conflict environment; and that lessons from post-conflict preventive action must inform and encourage pre-conflict prevention.
The jurisdiction and capacity of international organizations, in particular the United Nations, in preventing internal conflicts, are still weak. This seems to be counterintuitive: with greater experience with such conflicts over the past ten years, the international community should be in a better position to address internal conflict. Many studies and reports have in recent years highlighted the key challenges that need to be resolved before the roots of violent conflict can be effectively addressed and violence can be prevented. These reports include, among many others, the Carnegie Commission's Report on Preventing Deadly Conflict, a variety of policy papers produced by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Conflict Prevention Network of the European Union, the Swedish, Dutch, Canadian and British Foreign Ministries and, most recently, the Brahimi Report. Every attempt by the international community to prevent or manage an internal conflict requires international legitimacy, regional resources and local expertise.
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Civil society and global finance
Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens
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