International Journal on World Peace articles from June 2001

International Journal on World Peace archives from June 2001

Transformational Conflict Resolution and the Northern Ireland Conflict.
June 1, 2001... This paper examines a conceptual framework for transformational conflict resolution using ten propositions. The propositions are explained and related to efforts at peace building by NGOs in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The context of the...

Privatization in Costa Rica: Political and Economic Impact.
June 1, 2001... Globalization is forcing Costa Rica to face the dilemma of becoming less socialist and less nationalist, or to remain the hybrid socialist, state run capitalist system it has been. We doubt that Costa Rica will be able to change radically....

Explaining Intra-State conflicts in Africa: The Case of Burundi.
June 1, 2001... Within the African context, the new post-colonial states have been characterized by intra-national crises and violent inter-ethnic and inter-regional confrontations. These may be explained by the failure of the ruling classes to establish...

The United Nations. (News).(United States voted out of United Nations Human Rights Commission)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Human Rights Commission of the United Nations convened in Geneva for its annual six week session, attended by some 3000 delegates from 53 countries. The delegates are elected for a three year termfrom the regional groups of which they are a...

Sierra Leone. (News).(civil war and motivation of Revolutionary United Front)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... While there is some evidence that the civil war in this country may be winding down, it is not altogether persuasive and may be an example of the wish that is father to the thought. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF), infamous for atrocities...

Missile Defenses. (News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Bush administration has renewed the quest for a "strategic defense initiative (SDI)," first launched by the Reagan administration, put on the back burner by the Clinton Administration, and now renamed the Missile Defense Shield (MDS)....

Yugoslavia. (News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia, has been arrested by the government of his successor, Mr. Vojislav Kostunica, on charges of corruption and misuse of power. Although the bill of particulars has not yet been made...

Rebels with a Cause: The Minds and Morality of Political Offenders.
June 1, 2001... Nicholas N. Kittrie Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000 440 pages, cloth, index, $35.00 Nicholas Kittrie, distinguished University Professor at American University and an international lawyer and criminologist, has long urged...

Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries.
June 1, 2001... Edited by Mwangi S. Kimenyi and John Mukum Mbaku Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, Great Britain), 1999 xxi+426 pages, cloth, $94.95 Public choice theory was very much in vogue in the US during Reagan's presidency...

Governing the Frozen Commons, The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection.
June 1, 2001... Christopher C. Joyner. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 1998 352 pages, hardcover $49.95, paperback $24.95 Antarctica is considered a frozen global commons. Far from being a neglected continent, it plays host...

Moving Beyond Conflict Prevention to Reconcillation: Tackling Greek-Turkish Hostility. (Book Reviws).(Review)
June 1, 2001... M. James Wilkinson Washington, DC: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1999 48 pages, no price indicated James M. Wilkinson, former US special Cyprus coordinator from 1985 to 1989, in his report to the Carnegie Commission On...

The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 1, 2001... P. Terrence Hopmann Columbia South Carolina Press, 1998 365 pages, paper, $24.95 In recent years, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union, there has been a deluge of studies on conflict, its management, prevention and...

Encyclopedia of Genocide. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Israel W. Charny, editor in chief Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CL10, 1999 2 vols., CXLIII+718 pages, illustrated, $175.00 The term "genocide" was coined by the Polish, Jewish legal scholar Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), who escaped the...

Ending Violent Conflict. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Michael Renner Washington, DC: World Watch Institute, 1999 71 pages, $5.00 The century of extremes, which is what this, the most war-ravaged period in human history is sometimes called, indicates the imperative to end violent...

The United States and Human Rights: Looking Inward and Outward. (Book Reviews).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by David P. Forsythe Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 xxviii+404 pages, cloth, $55.00 In the wake of the loss of the United States seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission in May 2001, there is soul...