Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Publications
Conflict and Cooperation: Making the Case for Environmental Pathways to Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region
Jul 07, 2011The Great Lakes Region could be a potential model for a future worldwide initiative in environmental peacemaking, according to Patricia Kameri-Mbote. more
PECS News Issue 6 (Spring 2002)
Jul 07, 2011PECS News Issue 6 features a field report from the Philippines and a summary of the conference, The Road to Johannesburg. more
Defusing the Population Bomb: Is Security a Rationale for Reducing Global Population Growth?
Jul 07, 2011Urdal's analysis finds that population growth, land scarcity, and urbanization do not greatly influence patterns of war and peace, with a few exceptions. more
Response Paper - Pathways to Peace: Defining Community in the Age of Globalization
Jul 07, 2011Paper contribution to January 2010 seminar on environmental peacebuilding. more
A Southern African Perspective on Transboundary Water Resource Management
Jul 07, 2011Southern Africa’s transboundary rivers and their associated ecosystems could become either drivers of peace and economic integration or sources of endemic conflict, writes Anthony Turton. more
ECSP Report 8: Official Statements
Jul 07, 2011Excerpts from recent official statements in which environment, population, and human security issues are prominently cited in the context of national and security interests. more
66. The Third Yugoslavia, 1992 - 2001
Jul 07, 2011The Milosevic regime was a classic example of what has been called a “democradura,”
i.e., a system which combined some of the mechanisms of democracy (with the result that Milosevic’s Socialists were, at one point, forced to enter into a coalition with Seselj’s Radicals, in order to form a government) with many overtly authoritarian features (among which one might mention the constriction of press freedom, the use of the police against the political opposition, and systematic violations of human rights). If, as the author has argued elsewhere, political legitimacy hinges on the observance of routinized, legal, and accepted procedures for political succession, then much depends on the origins of the given regime. Accordingly, to understand the nature of the Milosevic regime and the roots of its crisis, one must return to its origins in 1987. more
ECSP Report 6: Event Summaries
Jul 07, 2011Event summaries from meetings sponsored by the Environmental Change and Security Program between June 1999 and May 2000. more
The Price of Neglect: From Resource Conflict to Maoist Insurgency in the Himalayan Kingdom
Jul 07, 2011Bishnu Upreti’s book, The Price of Neglect: From Resource Conflict to Maoist Insurgency in the Himalayan Kingdom was published in 2004, just as the Maoist insurgency was reaching a fever pitch and violence was spreading to the capital, Kathmandu. more
