Sport and Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Mostar and MItrovica : constested grounds for peacebuilding

Sport Entrepreneurship: A Recent Approach in Entrepreneurship and Sport Management

Innovation, creativity and change are the key elements and unavoidable factors in sport. The importance of this issue encourages us to study sport from the point of view of entrepreneurship. During the recent years, spreading the sport management and development of entrepreneurship have created a new frame work in sport in a way that a new approach has been appeared regarding sport management a...

International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis

International peacebuilding can improve the prospects that a civil war will be resolved. Although peacebuilding strategies must be designed to address particular conflicts, broad parameters that fit most conflicts can be identified. Strategies should address the local roots of hostility; the local capacities for change; and the (net) specific degree of international commitment available to assi...

Thematic Paper on Peacebuilding and Service Delivery

Peacebuilding is concerned with the long-term consolidation of peace in countries that have experienced conflict, with a view to building resilience. Peacebuilding has been defined by the United Nations as ‘a range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict, to strengthen national capacities at all levels for conflict management, and to lay the foundations for...

Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Resistance or Emancipation ?

Despite the EU’s longstanding engagement in the Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is in the middle of what some local actors think is its most serious constitutional crisis since the war, Chandler (2009: 74) is right to say that BiH is an ‘inverted state’, not representative of local interests, but of external agendas. It represents the EU’s ambitions in the field of peacebuilding (Björkdah...