Overcoming Obstacles To Peace

"This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 major post-Cold War nation-building interventions. The authors assess the risk of renewed conflict at the onset of the interventions and subsequent progress along five dimensions: security, democratization, government effectiveness, economic growth, and human development. They find that transformation of many of the specific conditions that gave rise to or fueled conflict often is not feasible in the time frame of nation-building operations but that such transformation has not proven essential to achieving the primary goal of nation-building -- establishing peace. Most interventions in the past 25 years have led to enduring peace, as well as some degree of improvement in the other dimensions assessed. The findings suggest the importance of setting realistic expectations -- neither expecting nation-building operations to quickly lift countries out of poverty and create liberal democracies, nor being swayed by a negative stereotype of nation-building that does not recognize its signal achievements in the great majority of cases."--Page 4 of cover.

This book describes and analyzes protracted conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. In doing so, it emphasizes obstacles to peace rather than root causes of conflict. Case studies are presented from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Northern Kenya, Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan, and Zanzibar. Amongst other conclusions, the book shows that, to settle or transform protracted conflicts, distinction must be made between strategic and nonstrategic actors: the former must be able to prevail upon the latter in the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements. The theme and collection of the research presented in this book is unique in the literature. The case studies all employ methods of othick description, o process tracing (following particular actors and their interests), and in-depth personal interviews. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, undergraduate and post-graduate students, and professionals in conflict theory, analysis and resolution, African and development studies, political science and international affairs, as well as to mediators, negotiators, and facilitators in conflict resolution

How I found peace after looking in all the wrong places. Was it handed to me on a platter...NO! Did I try 100 ways that didn't work, absolutely. This book is my journey of how I learned to accept the things I could not change, how I learned to change the things I can, and how I gained the wisdom to know the difference.

Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is a meticulously documented account that explodes popular myths and deconstructs standard propaganda narratives about the conflict. With provocative and incisive analysis, it provides the knowledge and insights necessary to effect the paradigm shift required to achieve peace.

Be Bold, Confident, confront your fears and knock out the challenge! Life is a gift from God. We all have to be ready to face challenges as we pursue our purpose in life. A challenge sets you up for promotion, if and only if you dont lose hope, quit and give up. In this book, Juliana encourages anyone that might be facing a challenging situation that may seem difficult and hopeless right now to be steadfast, have faith and believe that they will overcome. The life of a human being is all about problem solving. Use the power of positivity, optimism and a winners mindset to knock out any obstacle that may be standing in your way of achieving your goal. The obstacle is afraid of you; therefore dont run away from it, you have overcome it already. Simply keep moving forward! Take steps today allowing God to hold your hand as you read and practice the nuggets in this book. Go and overcome them all. God bless you!

A simple guide to inner peace in plain, everyday language. For anyone -religious, spiritual, or neither - who wants inner peace.

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to end, because domestic obstacles to peace become institutionalized over time. Next, it tests this theory with a mixed methods approach—through historical case studies and quantitative statistical analysis. Finally, it applies the theory to an in-depth analysis of the ending of the Korean War. By analyzing the domestic politics of the war's major combatants—the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and North and South Korea—it explains why the final armistice terms accepted in July 1953 were little different from those proposed at the start of negotiations in July 1951, some 294,000 additional battle-deaths later.

The Middle East road map : overcoming obstacles to peace : hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 15, 2003