Civil Society, Peace, and Power
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Om bidragsyterne
David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
Melanie Greenberg is the President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
Laurel Stone is Program Manager for Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
This important book provides valuable insights about the expanding role of civil society in building sustainable peace. The wide-ranging authors expertly specify and analyze the complex relations within, as well as between, civil society and state organizations in transnational and societal settings. The book should be read by persons engaged in overcoming destructive conflicts, by students and scholars studying their efforts, and by all who would support the work of establishing inclusive and enduring peace.
- Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies,
A timely contribution, combining new conceptual approaches on the power of civil society and human security with case studies examining diverse and innovative ways through which civil society organizations around the world have engaged with political and military actors in order to challenge and shape existing power structures. A very recommended reading!
- Thania Paffenholz, IPTI, Graduate Institute, Geneva/Switzerland,
Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building more peaceful and sustainable societies . The multiple case studies featured in this volume illustrate the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems-based approaches to peacebuilding and human security that involve diverse civil society groups (NGOs, religious organizations, media, etc.), government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and security forces. This unique comprehensive approach encompasses diverse stakeholders seeking to understand the drivers of conflict and the possibilities for working together to build peace. The book illustrates how the involvement of civil society can result in better informed, more inclusive, more accountable government decision making, and more effective peacebuilding policies.
Importantly, a number of the case studies provide a gender perspective on peacebuilding and civil society issues, voicing and giving attention to women’s perspectives without being focused only on gender issues. Further, authors from the Global South offer the perspectives of those directly immersed in ongoing struggles for justice and peace.
Introduction
John Paul Lederach
1: Civil Society and the Power to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Peter van Tuijl
Section 1:
2: Civil Society and the 2030 Agenda: Forging a Path to Universal Sustainable Peace through Policy Formulation
Erin McCandless
3: The Politics of Inclusion: Civil Society Engagement in the New Deal
Kristen Wall and Rachel Fairhurst
4: Integrating Gender into the New Deal Process
Dewi Suralaga, Mahbouba Seraj and Karen Robinson
Section 2
5: From National Security to Human Security: Developing Effective Partnerships between the UN, Regional Organizations and Civil Society
Darynell Rodriguez
6: The Role of WANEP in Crafting Peace and Security Architecture in West Africa
Emmanuel Bombande
7: The Role of Women in Regional Peace and Security: Experiences from the Pacific
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls and Laurel Stone
Section 3
8: Civil Society’s Peacebuilding Approach to Civil-Military-Police Coordination in Security Sector Reform
Lisa Schirch
9: Unlikely Partners for Conflict Transformation: Engaging the Military as Stakeholders for Peace in Mindanao
Myla Leguro and Hyunjin Deborah Kwak
10: POLSEDE, Civil Society, and Security Sector Reform in Guatemala
Bernardo Arévalo de Le?n and Ana Glenda Táger
Conclusion: Civil Society Empowerment for Human Security
David Cortright, Melanie Greenberg, Laurel Stone and Anna Milovanovic
Charles Hauss' series, "Peace and Security in the 21st Century," aims to make sense of the changing world of peace and security by publishing books that investigate security issues and peace efforts that involve cooperation at several levels of society. By looking at how security and peace interrelate at various stages of conflict, the series explores new ideas for a fast changing world that will seek to redefine and rethink what peace and security mean in the first decades of the century. Until recently, security was defined mostly in geopolitical terms with the assumption that it could only be achieved through at least the threat of military force. Today, however, people from as different backgrounds as planners in the Pentagon and veteran peace activists think in terms of human or global security, where no one is secure unless everyone is secure in all areas of their lives. This means that it is impossible nowadays to separate issues of war and peace, the environment, sustainability, identity, global health, etc. Although they will cover a variety of topics, the books will focus on the overarching theme that students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have to find new models and theories to account for, diagnose, and respond to the difficulties of a more complex world
Series Editor: Charles Hauss, Alliance for Peacebuilding
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Om bidragsyterne
David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
Melanie Greenberg is the President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
Laurel Stone is Program Manager for Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.