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This is a guide for practitioners and policymakers seeking to prevent deadly conflict and mitigate political instability. By integrating theory and practice, emphasizing the importance of analyzing the causes of peace as well as the causes of conflict, and stressing the social aspect of conflict analysis, the author provides a sturdy framework for translating analysis into effective action. Historical and contemporary case studies illustrate key points, and a variety of analytical tools and useful appendices illuminate emerging trends in complex and volatile environments. This inclusive handbook enables practitioners to anticipate and respond with greater agility to threats and opportunities and provides students and educators with a thoughtful reference.

Polemology --- Conflict management --- Peace-building --- Conflict management. --- Peace-building. --- 856 Conflictbenadering --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management

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Polemology --- Peace-building --- Conflict management --- Security, International --- 856.6 Vredesopbouw --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek

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Peace-building. --- Conflict management. --- Consolidation de la paix --- Gestion des conflits --- 813 Methodologie --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT --- PEACE --- Conflict management --- Peace-building --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Polemology

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This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Individuals from all over the world and all walks of life share numerous practices, habits, and narratives when they serve as interveners in conflict zones. These common attitudes and actions enable foreign peacebuilders to function in the field, but they also result in unintended consequences that thwart international efforts. Certain expatriates follow alternative modes of thinking and acting, often with notable results, but they remain in the minority. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners' everyday life and work, this book proposes innovative ways to better help host populations build a sustainable peace.

Polemology --- Sociology of culture --- Peace-building --- Intercultural communication --- Peaceful change (International relations) --- Consolidation de la paix --- Communication interculturelle --- Transformations pacifiques (Relations internationales) --- International cooperation --- Coopération internationale --- Maintien de la paix --- Processus de paix --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- #SBIB:327.6H00 --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: algemeen --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- Intercultural communication. --- Political science --- International cooperation. --- International Relations --- General. --- #SBIB:327.5H20Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: algemeen --- Peaceful change (International relations). --- Coopération internationale --- Processus de paix. --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire. --- Coopération internationale. --- Peace-building - International cooperation --- International relations --- Peace --- World politics --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Conflict management --- Peacekeeping forces --- Anthropological aspects

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The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-6). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from select individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.

Peaceful settlement of international disputes --- Polemology --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Congo --- Peace-building --- Community development --- Conflict management --- Internal security --- Violence --- Ethnic conflict --- Consolidation de la paix --- Développement communautaire --- Gestion des conflits --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Conflits ethniques --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (République démocratique) --- History --- Histoire --- INTERNAL SECURITY -- 930.3 --- VIOLENCE -- 930.3 --- ETHNIC CONFLICT -- 930.3 --- CONGO -- 327.1 --- PEACEBUILDING -- 327.1 --- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- 327.1 --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT -- 327.1 --- INTERNAL SECURITY -- 327.1 --- VIOLENCE -- 327.1 --- COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT -- 930.3 --- ETHNIC CONFLICT -- 327.1 --- #SBIB:327.6H00 --- #SBIB:328H412 --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: algemeen --- Instellingen en beleid: Zaïre / Congo --- Développement communautaire --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Crisis management --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Peace-building - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Community development - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Conflict management - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Internal security - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Violence - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Ethnic conflict - Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) - History - 1997 --- -Peace-building --- -Community development