Journeys Through Conflict: Narratives and Lessons: Hayward R. Alker: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Journeys Through Conflict

Narratives and Lessons

Journeys Through Conflict

Narratives and Lessons

Description

Journeys Through Conflict is the story of the Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS) project of the International Social Science Research Council. It relates the history of the project, presents its empirically grounded approach to anticipating violent conflict, and shows how the approach may be extended to other social science research arenas. Phase analysis of conflict life cycles, comparative case studies, reconstructed narratives, and policy lessons are hallmarks of this pathbreaking work by an international, interdisciplinary group of expert conflict analysts. Journeys Through Conflict projects alternate pathways to war and peace by a unique coding, graphing, and computational procedure that takes into account both contested conflict histories and future conflict resolutions.

Chapter 1 Preface: The Origins of the CEWS Vision
Part 2 Building Conflict Early Warning Systems
Chapter 3 The Challenge of Developing Conflict Early Warning Systems: A Proposal
Chapter 4 The Double Design of the CEWS Project
Chapter 5 Peacemaking and Conflict Transformation in Guatemala
Part 6 Comparative Studies of Prevention Successes and Failures
Chapter 7 Could Humanitarian Crises Have Been Anticipated in Burundi, Rwanda, and Zaire? A Comparative Study of Aniticipatory Indicators
Chapter 8 Escalatory Dynamics in the Moldova-Dniestr and Chechnya Conflicts
Chapter 9 Why Are Some Ethnic Disputes Settled Peacefully, While Others Become Violent? Kin-Group Conflicts in Post-Communist Europe
Chapter 10 Non-Conventional Diplomacy: Experiences of NGOs and People's Participation in Selected Peace processes
Chapter 11 Domestic and Transnational Strategies for Namaging Separatis Conflicts: Four Asian Cases
Part 12 A Prototype Information System for Early Warning Networks
Chapter 13 A comparative Look at Early Warning Indicators: PIOOM, the State Failures Project and CEWS Cases
Chapter 14 A Synthetic Framework for Extensible Conflict Early Warning Information Systems
Chapter 15 Exploring Alternative Conflict Trajectories with the CEWS-Explorer
Part 16 Sharing Informational Resources within Global CEW Networks
Chapter 17 Lessons from CEWS, FEWER and Other Early Warning Projects

Product details

Published	Aug 27 2001
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	464
ISBN	9780742510289
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	230 x 146 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing