Making Peace Last: A Toolbox for Sustainable Peacebuilding
No bigger challenge faces humanity than how to build peace. In this insightful, provocative, and practical book, Robert Ricigliano shows us how to take a systems approach. A very useful contribution! --William Ury, Harvard Negotiation Project, and author of The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can StopThe advance of peace in the post-cold-war era stopped around 2003 and global peace efforts must be reinvigorated. In his book Rob Ricigliano uses his research and experience to describe not only why so many well intended peace programs fail, but, more importantly, what can be done to systematically untangle the remaining wars and humanitarian outrages on our watch. --Jan Egeland, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, 2003-2006Thankfully, Making Peace Last arrives just as American policymakers realize that in order to build a modern security strategy, we must move away from reaction and toward resilience, away from borders and toward relationships. Today, our strength lies in the ability to see the United States in the scheme of things rather than as the scheme of things. This book shows us how. --Lorelei Kelly, Director, New Strategic Security Initiative