Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

Woodhouse, Tom; Ramsbotham, Oliver

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“…Table 3 outlines the basic intervention theories, or strategic approaches, to conflict resolution and some common associated goals, objectives, and tasks. 13 All of these interventions tend to fall under liberal or constructivist theories, but the specific intervention strategies include conflict management, resolution, transformation , and prevention .…”

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Assessing the theory of change in national strategies

Thurston

2019

Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation

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The theory of change links a strategy’s theory about the source of the conflict and the intervention philosophy to the implementation of programs and activities in the field. This paper focuses on strategic assessment at the national level, a step above the operational assessment at the departmental or agency level. The paper first discusses the importance of understanding a strategy’s theory of change and how policymakers at the national level think about the problem and how to intervene. The paper uses counterterrorism and conflict resolution strategy as examples. The author discusses two special challenges: how policymakers frame the desired outcome, and multiple theories. The author argues for strategic assessment officers to discuss a strategy’s theory or theories of change so that policymakers and national-level leaders can better understand how different theories drive their intervention plans and strategies. By improving policymakers’ understanding of their theory of change, and improve the clarity of the desired outcomes, strategic assessment officers can better measure the effectiveness of national-level strategies.

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Assessing the theory of change in national strategies

Thurston

2019

Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation

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“…Much time and many perspectives focus on the type of methods that allow groups and societies to begin such a process. Many case studies and conflict resolution methodologies exist for communities (Ramsbotham et al, 2011), but at an organisational level far less scholarship has explored how institutions and organisations that are deeply embedded in conflict resolution at a societal level have dealt with and continue to cope with the demands of such organisational challenges internally as they continue to negotiate relationships and interdependencies with external, sometimes political, stakeholders (Eyben et al, 2000; Murphy, 2013). However, there is much within the realm of organisational studies which allows us to begin to explore the complex interrelationship between an organisation’s place within a society emerging from conflict and it role as an actor in and agent of the resolution of that conflict.…”

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Historical dialogue and memory in policing change: The case of the police in Northern Ireland

2016

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This paper explores the complex relationship between organisational change and historical dialogue in transitional societies. Using the policing reform process in Northern Ireland as an example, the paper does three things: the first is to explore the ways in which policing changes were understood within the policing organisation and 'community' itself. The second is to make use of a processual approach, privileging the interactions of context, process and time within the analysis. Thirdly, it considers this perspective through the relatively new lens of 'historical dialogue': understood here as a conversation and an oscillation between the past, present and future through reflections on individual and collective memory. Through this analysis, we consider how members' understandings of a difficult past (and their roles in it) facilitated and/or impeded the organisations change process. Drawing on a range of interviews with previous and current members of the organisation, this paper sheds new light on how institutions deal with and understand the past as they experience organisational change within the a wider societal transition from conflict to non-violence.

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“…And, ‘behaviour’ is identified with both cooperation and coercion. Further, the threats, coercion and destructive attacks relate to the violent conflict behaviour (Ramsbotham, Woodhouse, & Miall, 2011, pp. 10–11).…”

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“…While direct violence can be stopped by changing conflict behaviour, the overcoming of structural contradictions in society will lead to an end to structural violence. And, attitudinal change will put an end to cultural violence (Ramsbotham et al, 2011, p. 11). Galtung related positive peace ‘as the negation of both direct and indirect violence and conceptualized structural violence as the lead leitmotif of peace research.…”

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“…Jutila et al has emphasized on the subject (peace-researcher)-object relationship. Upadhyaya and Kumar have quite persuasively elaborated this argument: The new generation scholars especially from the revisionist and critical schools ((Dietrich, 2008; Lederach, 1995, 2005; Mac Ginty, 2006; Ramsbotham et al, 2011; Richmond, 2007; Sammadar, 2005) emphasize on the importance of local culture and trans-cultural tools in conflict-sensitive areas. These critical currents expanded the peace discourse by bringing on board the hitherto neglected issues of rights and justice in peace pedagogy and research activities.…”

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Conflict, Peace and Security: An International Relations Perspective with Special Reference to India

Lahiry

2019

Millennial Asia

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Conflict, peace and security are some of the enduring concerns of the Peace Research Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. They have become integrated in the dominant disciplines of international relations and political science and now are also part of most of the social science disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public policy, gender studies, international law and so on. This article purportedly seeks to examine some of the varied issues of conflict, peace and security and the challenges posed before the IR theorists to deal with them. It will also examine how the liberals, realists, Marxists, neo-Marxists and functionalists interpret conflict-transformation, peace-building and security. This article concludes with the argument that it is within the frontiers of critical theory as well as a class analysis of the structure of society within any state that social scientists can move from a paradigm of conflict reduction towards a more egalitarian model of peace and security. This article also concludes that only human security with a strong social welfare policy will lead to an egalitarian social order, especially in India.

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Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

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Historical dialogue and memory in policing change: The case of the police in Northern Ireland

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