Tag: Peace

Free Download D. Negroponte, "Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War"
English | 2012 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 0230120946, 134929909X | PDF | 1,4 mb
The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work examines how peace was made and whether it has endured.

Free Download Prime Minister for Peace: My Struggle for Serbian Democracy By Panic, Milan;Murphy, Kevin C(With)
2015 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1442243627 | PDF | 7 MB
In this remarkable memoir, Milan Panic tells the formerly unknown story of his attempts to oust Slobodan Milosevic and his battles with the U.S. State Department in an effort to bring peace to the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars. A young cycling champion who fought the Nazi occupation in Yugoslavia with Tito’s partisans, Panic defected after World War II from his now-communist country to start a new life in the United States. But his greatest challenge still lay ahead when he was invited to serve as prime minister of Yugoslavia. But in Belgrade, ancient enmities and suspicions festered, and the threat of tragedy and bloodshed loomed large as ethnic conflict raged. And even as Panic implored the West for support, he would have to outwit the machinations of a wily Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Including behind-the-scenes details of his rivalry with Milosevic, this book is a compelling chronicle of the road to peace in the Balkans.

Free Download Norrin M. Ripsman, "Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below: Ending Conflict between Regional Rivals"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1501702475 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.6 mb
In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking. Through a qualitative empirical analysis of all the regional rivalries that terminated in peace treaties in the twentieth century―including detailed case studies of the Franco-German, Egyptian-Israeli, and Israeli-Jordanian peace settlements―Ripsman concludes that efforts to encourage peacemaking that focus on changing the attitudes of the rival societies or democratizing the rival polities to enable societal input into security policy are unlikely to achieve peace.

Free Download Chris Gilligan, Jonathan Tonge, "Peace or War?: Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Routledge Revivals)"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367000865, 0367000830 | EPUB | pages: 167 | 0.6 mb
First published in 1997, this volume responded to the peace process of the 1980s and 1990s between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, emerging just prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. It constituted one of the first major academic examinations of the attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland in the 1990’s, and explores the historical origins of the process, before moving towards a critical account of the role of political parties in the development of the peace process. Critics have argued equally that the process was a sham, tactically repositioning Irish republicanism, and that it provided a framework for reconciliation or even conflict resolution. This book outlines the political changes which allowed the peace process to develop, along with analysing specific themes divided into three broad sections: the general aims of the peace process, the political perspectives and the issues under discussion. Aiming to promote discussion, these contributors explore the origins and function of the peace process, followed by an analysis of political perspectives including the Unionists, the SDLP and Irish Republicanism. Finally, they consider key issues of interest for the peace process, including the ever-present border debate, security strategies, education, and economics, whilst Rachel Ward makes the case for the skilled contributions of women available to formal politics.

Free Download Sven Biscop, "Peace Without Money, War Without Americans: Can European Strategy Cope?"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1472442881, 1472442911 | EPUB | pages: 142 | 1.2 mb
Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 confirmed the picture; Washington will support European action, but only if and when Europe takes the initiative. Just as the focus of American strategy is shifting to Asia and the Pacific, vital interests in the European neighbourhood require resolute action. Autonomy is being forced upon Europe, but it is an autonomy constrained by a lack of means as, following the financial crisis, defence budgets across the EU member states are slashed. The ramifications of the Arab Spring and the crisis in Ukraine pose challenges of an enormous scale for the EU and its members. Peace Without Money, War Without Americans is the double challenge that European strategy-makers face. What can be expected from strategy at a European level? Can Europe cope?

Free Download Elise Boulding, Clovis Brigagao, Kevin Clements, "Peace Culture And Society: Transnational Research And Dialogue"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813312183, 0367282488 | EPUB | pages: 308 | 0.8 mb
Elise Boulding, current Secretary General of IPRA, is Professor Emerita of Sociology, Dartmouth College. A futurist, she writes on local-global peace-building, development, family life and women. A founding member of IPRA, she served on the Commission to recommend the establishment of the U.S. Institute of Peace, has been a member of the UN University Council (1980-85) and served on the UNESCO Peace Prize jury (1982-87). Clovis Brigagao, a political scientist, is currently Chief of Cabinet of the State Government of Rio de Janeiro. He was Secretary General of IPRA during 1986-88, and is also a research associate at the University of Brasilia and on the Advisory Board of the Commission Sudamericana de Paz, Santiago. He has written in the fields of international relations, peace studies and ecology, and is the founder of IPRA’s Study Group on Ecological Security. Kevin Clements is Senior Lecturer in sociology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He writes on development, defense and security issues, and the problems of multilateral disarmament. He is the new Secretary General of the Asian Peace Research Association as of fall, 1990, and will be one of the organizers of the second Pugwash Symposium on Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region in 1991.

Free Download Willis W Harman, "Paths To Peace: Exploring The Feasibility Of Sustainable Peace"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367297841 | EPUB | pages: 114 | 0.5 mb
A primer on thinking about peace in a nuclear age, this book describes the kinds of peace efforts that have been tried-and those that might be tried-from the highest echelons of government policymaking to the grassroots level of individual endeavour. Its primary goal is to enable the reader to understand ways of eliminating the threat of nuclear war and to be empowered to take action. The book describes and compares nine basic methods people have used to achieve peace, ranging from such conventional approaches as the theories of deterrence and balance of power to more unconventional strategies such as nonviolent resistance. Essentially all significant ideas for achieving and maintaining international peace fall into one of these nine categories or combine features from several. Many have been tried, but all clearly have been found wanting. Yet the authors’ tone is one of optimism as they explore some of the major changes of the past quarter century. They contend that these changes alter the balance of advantages and disadvantages among the various paths to peace, so that what seemed partially workable in the past may not be appropriate to the present and what seemed totally impractical in the past might have a chance of working today. The book concludes with a scenario that may make a stable peace possible in the foreseeable future.

Free Download Meera Lester, "My Pocket Meditations: Anytime Exercises for Peace, Clarity, and Focus"
English | 2017 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 1507203411 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Experience a moment of peace anywhere with this beautiful, pocket-sized book that can help calm your mind and focus your thoughts throughout your busy days.

Free Download Harvey Sicherman, "Palestinian Autonomy, Self-government, And Peace"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813384710, 0367282194 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.5 mb
Describing the changes of heart and mind that reordered the Middle East in the wake of the First World War, AlbertHourani, one of the great scholars of the modern Middle East,has written: "Wars are catalysts, bringing to consciousness feelings hitherto inarticulate and creating expectations of change." The Gulf War of early 1991 bears the signs of having been such a catalyst. Having proved its assertiveness and strength, and having led a wide-ranging coalition into battle,the United States has, since the war’s end, embarked on an energetic diplomatic effort aimed at settling the long-standing conflict between the majority of the Arab states and Israel. The peace conference that Secretary of State James A. Baker III has organized will grapple with a number of issues. One of the most contentious and significant will be the future of thePalestinians of Gaza and the West Bank.

Free Download How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War by Philipp Ther, translated by Jessica Spengler
English | July 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1509550593, 1509550607 | EPUB | 304 pages | 0.4 MB
When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong?