Committee for Conflict Transformation Support

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Newsletter 13

The Interplay of Domestic, Regional and International Forces in Peacebuilding

Footnotes

  1. See the Brahimi Report: Report on the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, Summary of Recommendations at www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/2000/08/brahimi-recommend.htm Report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the Report, 20 October 2000, A/55/502 and A/55/305, p. 1.
  2. It is conceptualised by Louise Diamond and others (Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy) as structural and relational peacebuilding, i.e. buildings and institutions must be built again and relationships too.
  3. Students recently offered me two intriguing definitions of the international community in essays for a conflict theory course. One was simply, "a many headed monster". Another definition offered was "the USA" (!) We are reminded of the plea in Chalmers Johnson's book Blowback by Ashok Bath, executive director of the Asialink Advertising Corporation and a voice in Asian business affairs: "Is there no way to go but a generic world order in which every country is forced to have the same interpretation of democracy as the U.S.?" C. Johnson (2000), Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown & Co.)
  4. Pugh cites discussions with leaders from the Tuzla and Sarajevo Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Circle 99 in Sarajevo and concerned NGO representatives from Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka and Tuzla, 1997-1998. (p. 130)
  5. The prospective recipients (in Tual, Kai islands) knew nothing about it. See "Dutch NGO questions delay of financial aid for Maluku", Indonesian Observer, January 29, 2001. Here was useful "whistleblowing" interaction which we could plot or visualise on a "grid" such as Czempiel suggests - it would need our perceived horizontal levels, national governments, aid pledging conferences, UN agencies - head office and field offices, INGOs, with vertical connecting lines to localised groups, communities, and individuals.
  6. Ambon Ekspres, 30 March 2001, p.8
  7. For a refreshing window on a world view which challenges the current seemingly dominant liberal "globalisation" model, see Paul Salem, ed.(1997) Conflict Resolution in the Arab World (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

References

Brahimi Report: Report on the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, Summary of Recommendations at www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/2000/08/brahimi-recommend.htm

Report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the Report, 20 October 2000, A/55/502 and A/55/305.

Bertram, Eva (1995) "Reinventing Governments: the Promise and Perils of United Nations Peacebulding", Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 39, no.3 Budiardjo, Carmel (2001) "Visit to the New East Timor" Tapol, No.161, March/April 2001.

Buruma, Ian (1995) Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (Vintage Books)

Chandler, David (1999) "The Limits of Peacebuilding: International Regulation and Civil Society Development in Bosnia" in International Peacekeeping Vol. 6. No.1

Chopra, Jarat (2000) "The UN's Kingdom of East Timor", Survival vol. 42, no.3

Cousens, E.M. and Kumar, C (2001) Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies (Lynne Rienner publishers, Inc.)

Czempiel, Ernst-Otto (1989) "Internationalising Politics: Some answers to the Question of Who Does What to Whom" in Czempiel and Rosenau, Global Changes and Theoretical Challenges (Lexington Books)

Deacon, B and Stubbs, P (1998) "International actors and Social Policy Development in Bosnis-Herzegovina: Globalism and the 'New Feudalism'", Journal of European Social Policy Vo.8 No2.

Duffield, Mark (2000) "Globalisation and Conflict - A Reply", CODEP/DFID Experts Consultation on Globalisation and Conflict, London, 19 June 2000.

Hess, Gregory (2001) Written comments for personal Interview. gregory.hess@thepeacepathgroup.org

Maclean, Sandra (1999) "Peacebuilding and the New Regionalism in southern Africa" Third World Quarterly Vol. 20, No. 5

Moore, David (2000) "Levelling the Playing Fields and Embedding Illusions: Post-Conflict discourse and Neo-Liberal Development in War-torn Africa" in Review of African Political Economy, No. 83

Morris-Suzuki (2000) "For and Against NGOs", New Left Review March/April 2000

Nair, Sheila (2000)"Human Rights, Sovereignty and the East Timor 'Question'", Global Society, Vol 14, No.1

Paris, Roland (1997) "Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism" in International Security, Vol 22 No.1

Patrick, Stewart (2000) "The Check is in the Mail: Improving the Delivery and Coordination of Postconflict Assistance" in Global Governance, Vol.6 No.1, Jan-March 2000.

Pugh, Michael, ed. (2000) Regeneration of War-Torn Societies (Macmillan Press)

U.S. Institute for Peace Special Report on Peacebuilding in Bosnia (J. Demichelis June 98) at www.usip.org/oc/sr/BosniaNGO.html

Von Hippel, Karin (1999) Democracy by Force: US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (Cambridge University Press)

Waltz, Kenneth 1959, Man (sic) the State and War, for some time now a classic in international relations.

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