Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in recent years. In Estonia and Guyana, peacebuilding initiatives sought to ward off violence. In Burundi and Sri Lanka, initiatives focused on ending ongoing hostilities, and in Cyprus and Tajikistan, these efforts brought peace to the country after its violence had ended.
The contributors follow a systematic assessment framework, including a common set of questions for interviewing participants to prepare comparable results from a set of diverse cases. Their findings weigh the successes and failures of this particular approach to conflict resolution and draw conclusions about the conditions under which such interactive approaches work, as well as assess the audience and the methodologies used.
This work features research conducted in conjunction with the Working Group on Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, convened by the Wilson Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword, by Lee H. Hamilton
- Preface, by Steve McDonald
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Approaching the Subject
- 1. Intrastate Conflicts and the Problem of Political Will, by Michael Lund
- 2. Unofficial Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace, by Michael Lund
- Part II. Assessing Country Cases
- Averting Conflict Escalation
- 3. Estonia: Psychopolitical Dialogue Contributing to Conflict Prevention, by Susan H. Allen
- 4. Can Dialogues Change the Course of a Small Nation? The Social Cohesion Program in Guyana, by Michael Lund
- Ending Active Conflicts
- 5. Tajikistan: Peace Secured, by but the State of Our Dreams?, by Anna Matveeva
- 6. Sri Lanka: When Negotiations Fail—Talks for the Sake of Talks; War for the Sake of Peace, by Hannes Siebert with Chanya Charles
- Transcending Past Conflicts
- 7. The Harvard Study Group on Cyprus: Contributions to an Unfulfilled Peace Process, by Diana Chigas
- 8. The Burundi Leadership Training Program, by Susanna Campbell and Peter Uvin
- Part III. Findings and Implications
- 9. Learning from the Case Studies: Impacts and Explanations, by Michael Lund
- 10. Contemporary Implications: From Trust-Building to Institution-Building, by Michael Lund
- Contributors
- Index
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