Fragile peace : state failure, violence and development in crisis regions

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Fragile peace : state failure, violence and development in crisis regions

edited by Tobias Debiel with Axel Klein

Zed Books , Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, c2002

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Der zerbrechliche frieden : Krisenregionen zwischen Staatsversagen, Gewalt und Entwicklung

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Translated from the German

Published in association with the Development and Peace Foundation, Bonn

Originally published: Bonn : J.H.W. Dietz Nachf

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Several regions of the world are characterized by persistent internal conflict and deeply rooted structures of violence. In this work. the contributors explore why domestic and international efforts to re-establish order, human security, democratic processes, and an economy capable of developing, are proving so difficult to achieve. They look at three regions in particular - the Caucasus, Central America and the Horn of Africa - and investigate the wider questions involved in state failure, the dynamics of economies geared to violence, the roles of outside actors and aid agencies in supporting reconstruction, and what effective judicial reform, decentralization and other changes may achieve. They are all concerned to encourage more effective action, processes and policies to help regions and countries to end, or recover from, endemic warfare and violence. Without such a transition, the prospects for their populations remain bleak and the flight of refugees to more secure and prosperous countries will continue.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Uwe Holtz Foreword to the English Edition - James Oporia-Ekwaro and Axel Klein 1. Introduction - Tobias Debiel PART 1: STATE FAILURE, WAR ECONOMIES, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE 2. The Reconstruction and Transformation of War-Torn Societies and State Institutions: What Role can Outside Actors Play? - Nicole Ball 3. An Independent System of Justice: The Condition Required to Check Arbitrary State Rule - Hans-Joachim Heintze 4. Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Crisis Prevention - Andreas Mehler PART 2: CRISIS REGIONS BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND DEVELOPMENT: APPROACHES TO CONFLICT SETTLEMENT AND CHECKS ON THE RULE OF THE STATE 5. State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Southern Caucasus - Rainer Freitag-Wirminghaus 6. Crisis of the State, Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Georgia - Data Darchiashvili 7. The Central American Conflict System: Outside Actors and Changing Violence - Sabine Kurtenbach 8. Crisis of the State, Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Guatemala - Bernardo Arevalo De Leon 9. The Turbulent Horn of Africa: Political Regimes in the Process of Change - Axel Klein 10. Crisis of State, the Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Ethiopia - Siegfried Pausewang PART 3: REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11 11. Resort to Violence by Non-State Actors: The Terrorism of September 11 as a Challenge to Foreign Security and Development Policy - Tobias Debiel

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