Books about Breaking the Conflict Trap

Civil war conflict is a core development issue. The existence of civil war can dramatically slow a countryA's development process, especially in low-income countries which are more vulnerable to civil war conflict. Conversely, development can impede civil war. When development succeeds, countries become saferA'when development fails, they experience a greater

Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological challenges in contemporary approaches to

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen Demokrati(e)sierung helfen kann, Bürgerkriege in ethnisch gespaltenen Gesellschaften langfristig zu überwinden. Dabei konzentriert sich die Analyse auf den Konflikttyp "Guerilla versus Staat", der sich zu einem stabilen Gewaltsystem entwickelt hat. Welche demokratischen Reformen helfen nun, solch einen Konflikt zu

Once considered an exclusively internal affair, international organisations have, over the last few decades, become increasingly involved in the management of ethnopolitical conflicts and have been active in attempts to prevent and/or resolve them. This book presents a series of studies covering the work of eight different organisations active in