Strategies of peace : transforming conflict in a violent world / edited by Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Searching for Strategy in an Age of Peacebuilding / Daniel Philpott -- 1. Strategic Peacebuilding: An Overview / John Paul Lederach and R. Scott Appleby -- 2. Strategic Peacebuilding: Concepts and Challenges / Peter Wallensteen -- 3. The Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice / Hal Culbertson -- 4. Reconciliation: An Ethic for Peacebuilding / Daniel Philpott -- 5. Whose Strategy, Whose Peace? The Role of International Institutions in Strategic Peacebuilding / Simon Chesterman -- 6. How Strategic Is UN Peacebuilding? / Nicholas Sambanis -- 7. Targeted Sanctions, Counterterrorism, and Strategic Peacebuilding / George A. Lopez and David Cortright -- 8. Peace and Justice? The Contribution of International Judicial Processes to Peacebuilding / Robert C. Johansen -- 9. Human Rights and Strategic Peacebuilding: The Roles of Local, National, and International Actors / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- 10. Economic Globalization and Strategic Peacebuilding / Jackie Smith -- 11. The Response Imperative: Tensions and Dilemmas of Humanitarian Action and Strategic Peacebuilding / Larissa Fast -- 12. Turning from Hatred to Community Friendship: Forgiveness Education as a Resource for Strategic Peacebuilding in Postaccord Belfast / Robert D. Enright, Jeanette Knutson Enright and Anthony C. Holter -- 13. Religion and Peacebuilding / Gerard F. Powers -- Conclusion: Strategic Peacebuilding beyond the Liberal Peace / Oliver P. Richmond.

How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty? In Strategies of Peace, the first volume in the Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding series, fifteen leading scholars propose an imaginative and provocative approach to peacebuilding. Today the dominant thinking is the "liberal peace," which stresses cease fires, elections, and short run peace operations carried out by international institutions, western states, and local political elites. But the liberal peace is not enough, the authors argue. A just and sustainable peace requires a far more holistic vision that links together activities, actors, and institutions at all levels. By exploring innovative models for building lasting peace-a United Nations counter-terrorism policy that also promotes good governance; coordination of the international prosecution of war criminals with local efforts to settle civil wars; increasing the involvement of religious leaders, who have a unique ability to elicit peace settlements; and many others--the authors advance a bold new vision for peacebuilding.