Building of Peace and Reconciliation

EXCERPTED FROM Connecting Peace , Justice , and Reconciliation

Building a Republican Peace

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

West Papua: Reconciliation as a Way of Promoting Peace Dialogue

Peace Building and Complex Political Emergencies

This paper examines the recent growth of the opium economy in North Eastern Afghanistan. A detailed analysis of one village in Badakshan Province reveals profound changes in the local economy and social institutions. The paper describes two major shifts in the local economy (1) the switch from wheat to poppy cultivation (2) the shift from the livestock trade to the opium trade. It then examines...

Public health and peace building in Nepal.

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 August 15, 2009 515 On May 4, 2009, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, resigned, adding yet another stage to the transformation of Nepal from bullets to ballots. The Maoists had initiated a leg islative agenda to “secure rights for all minority people in Nepal”. Politicians and everyday Nepalese alike spoke of the “New Nepal” with great promise, an...