Searching for Peace in the Asia Pacific: an Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-SEP-07

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SEARCHING FOR PEACE IN THE ASIA PACIFIC: AN OVERVIEW OF CONFLICT PREVENTION AND PEACEBUILDING ACTIVITIES

Edited by Annelies Heijmans, Nicola Simmonds, and Hans van de Veen

A Project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention

Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004

848 pages, paper.

The book is the fourth in the regional series of the Searching for Peace Program of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). It covers Asia Pacific, following Central and South Asia, and Europe and Eurasia--subsequent volumes will cover other regions, such as Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The editors, Annelies Heijmans and Nicola Simmonds, managing the ECCP Asia Pacific Program, and Hans van de Veen, senior journalist and coordinator of an independent network of journalists, Environment and Development Productions, presented the major outcome of the Searching for Peace in the Asia Pacific project.

The publication brought together more then 30 authors and experts and...

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