TY - BOOK AU - Leeuwen,Mathijs van TI - Partners in peace: discourses and practices of civil-society peace building T2 - Non-state actors in international law, politics, and governance series SN - 9780754694748 AV - JZ5538 .L44 2009eb U1 - 303.6/6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Farnham, Surry PB - Burlington, VT, Ashgate KW - Peace-building KW - Case studies KW - Civil society KW - Consolidation de la paix KW - Études de cas KW - Société civile KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Peace KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Boxes; Acknowledgements; 1 Overcoming Conflict:The Importance of Civil-Society Peacebuilding; 2 Civil Society Building Peace: The Development of an Idea; 3 Mapping the Peacebuilding Landscape: Policies and Practices; 4 Grounding Local Peace Organizations: A Case Study of Southern Sudan; 5 Imagining the Great Lakes Region: Civil-society Regional Approaches for Peacebuilding in Rwanda, Burundi, and DR Congo; 6 Crisis or Continuity?Framing Land Disputes and Local Conflict Resolution in Burundi N2 - How do international organizations support local peacebuilding? Do they really understand conflict? Framing the debate using case studies from Africa and Central America, Partners in Peace challenges the global perceptions and assumptions of the roles played by civil society in peacebuilding and offers a radically new perspective on how international organizations can support such efforts UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=421344 ER -