Preventing deadly conflict
By: I. William Zartman
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780745686912; 9780745686929
Subjects: Prevention; Crisis management; Violence; Conflict management; War; Responsibility to protect (International law)
Description: Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system. So how does prevention work when it works, and what can be done when tried and tested practices fail? In this book, I. William Zartman offers a clear and authoritative guide to the key challenges of conflict prevention and the norms, processes and methods used to dampen and diffuse inter and intra-state conflict in the contemporary world. Early-stage techniques including awareness de-escalation, stalemate, ripening, and resolution, are explored in full alongside the late or crisis stage techniques of interruption , separation and integration. Prevention, he argues, is a battle that is never won: there is always more work to be done. The search for prevention - necessary but still imperfect - continues into new imperatives, new mechanisms, new agents, and new knowledge, which this book helps discover and apply.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The inevitability and value of conflict; title: The ubiquity of prevention; title: Norms for long-term prevention; title: Mechanisms of mid-term prevention; title: Methods of pre-crisis prevention; title: Means of late (and earliest) post-crisis prevention; title: Conclusions : the elusive quest for prevention.