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Peacebuilding After Peace Accords: The Challenges of Violence, Truth and Youth

by Tristan Anne Borer, John Darby

  • Paperback
  • 124 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm

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For students and activists of global peace studies.

Examines why peace deals often fail to end violence.

Shows you the path to building a truly lasting peace.

A scholarly examination of the complex challenges faced by societies striving to build peace after conflict.

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During the 1990s, optimism abounded because international violence was in decline. The number of armed conflicts decreased worldwide from more than fifty in the early 1990s to fewer than thirty a decade later. This drop resulted largely from negotiations leading to peace accords. However, in a disturbingly large number of places, war was actually succeeded not by peace but by a stalemate. Peace accords were plagued by problems, including economic hardship, burgeoning crime, postwar trauma, and persistent fear and suspicion. Too often, negotiated settlements merely opened another difficult chapter in the peace process, or worse, led to new phases of conflict. This disappointing record is the subject of a multiyear project conducted by the University of Notre Dame's Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC). Located at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, RIREC explored three significant challenges of the postwar landscape: the effects of violence in internal conflicts after peace agreements have been signed; the contributions of truth-telling mechanisms; and the multidimensional roles played by youth as activists, soldiers, criminals, and community-builders. The project led to the 2006 publication of three edited volumes by the University of Notre Dame Press: John Darby's Violence and Reconstruction; Tristan Anne Borer's Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies; and Siobh
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  • Title

    Peacebuilding After Peace Accords: The Challenges of Violence, Truth and Youth

  • Authors

    Tristan Anne Borer +2

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    February 2007

  • Weight

    178g

  • Page Count

    124

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268022044

  • ISBN-10

    0268022046

  • Eden Code

    5289733