International Journal on World Peace articles from December 2003

International Journal on World Peace archives from December 2003

Rethinking the United Nations System: prospects for a World Federation of Nations.
December 1, 2003... This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the need to reform the United Nations by looking at what aspects of the current system have succeeded and which have failed. It considers changes in the international system which require the UN...

Reform of the United Nations Security Council: a comment on the South African Position.
December 1, 2003... This article investigates the possibilities for the reform of the UN Security Council as desired by many developing and non-aligned nations, like South Africa, which want to see the Security Council democratized. The author suggests that such...

An interreligious council at the UN: UN Charter possibilities and constraints.
December 1, 2003... Since UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan emphazied the role of religion and culture in his UN Millennium Declaration Goals, there have been discussions about more actively involving religions in the UN. The author was invited to participate in a...

Aid conditionality and the peace process: an analysis of its implementation.
December 1, 2003... This essay investigates the potential of aid conditionality to positively influence peace processes. It outlines what peace conditionality entails, and how and why it could be used. Drawing on the three case studies of El Salvador, Israel and...

The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... THE CHECHEN WARS: WILL RUSSIA GO THE WAY OF THE SOVIET UNION? Matthew Evangelista Brookings Institution Press, 2002 244 pages, paper, $19.95 At the time of writing of this review of Matthew Evangelista's clearly written book...

Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... SEARCHING FOR PEACE IN EUROPE AND EURASIA: AN OVERVIEW OF CONFLICT PREVENTION AND PEACEBUILDING ACTIVITIES Edited by Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen, and Juliette Verhoeven A Project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention...

The Courage for Peace.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... THE COURAGE FOR PEACE Louise Diamond Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2000 263pp. $15.95 Louise Diamond, co-founder of the Institute for MultiTrack Diplomacy, works in areas of inter-ethnic conflict to empower peacebuilders. "Our...