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Development Matters eBook Series

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  • Conflict and Development

    by Eleanor O' Gorman ...
    Series series Development Matters
    During the 1990s the drive of liberal peace efforts in the form of humanitarian intervention transformed the ways in which traditional development assistance operated in war and post-war situations. From Somalia and Rwanda to Bosnia and Sri Lanka, conflict, security and development became more intertwined as more integrated programmes and interventions were advocated by the international community ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges

    How Foreign Aid became a Casualty of War

    by Peter Gill ...
    'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.'LSE Review of BooksThe war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate.From the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the unending struggle in Helmand, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • United States Human Expedition

    by Timothy Rodgers ...
    The United States Human Expedition if adopted by the government, would become a non-combative branch of service that would evolve into a functional check and balance upon money. It would be implemented domestically until established and proven effective against poverty, criminal and substance abuse statistics. This publication covers the need to separate corporation from state. Corporations were ... Read more

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  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Edited by Cedric De Coning, Linnéa Gelot, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

    Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas ...
    Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty-defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line-over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more difficult, and slower, over time. This book will examine three central changes ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Gendered Agency in War and Peace

    Gender Justice and Women's Activism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina

    by Maria O’Reilly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official discourses surrounding them. Extending Nancy Fraser’s tripartite model of justice to peacebuilding ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Diasporas, Development and Peacemaking in the Horn of Africa

    Edited by Liisa Laakso, Petri Hautaniemi ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Exiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development in their homelands. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Gender in Transitional Justice

    Edited by S. Buckley-Zistel, R. Stanley ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence countries such Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Columbia, Chile and Germany. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Education for Sustainable Peace and Conflict Resilient Communities

    by Borislava Manojlovic ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict. It does so by examining the agency of conflict-resilient communities and the dynamic processes of their interactions with larger societal structure. Although education is seen as a human right, the design of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific

    Edited by Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Juliet Bennett, Serrena Eréndira Serrano Oswald ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association’s Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews “Nigeria’s Home-Grown DDR Programme”; C. Christian and H. Speight (USA) analyse “Water, Cooperation, and Peace in the Palestinian West Bank”; T. Galaviz (Mexico) discusses “The Peace Process Mediation Network between the Colombian ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • When the State Fails

    Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

    Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams ...
    Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of ... Read more

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