Civil Conflict Resolution
Last updated: September 22, 2008
Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois
Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. IX / No. 2 / Winter 1994-1995
Summary
As new waves of ethnic conflicts beset an increasingly larger number of states in the world system, scholars and policy makers have applied themselves to the task of determining the causes of these conflicts, how to prevent them, and how to limit their impact. Their efforts have been impeded by a political reluctance among the great powers, particularly the United States, to take on the burdens of an increasingly divisive world. Conversely, the availability of sophisticated new technologies for resolving and managing conflicts has, in some instances, made their task easier.The role of these three themes—ethnicity, external intervention, and technology—in the generation and resolution of conflict formed the focus of a workshop hosted on November 19, 1994, by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security. The assembled scholars discussed some of the long-term causes of conflict, various forms of external intervention such as preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping in curtailing or limiting conflict, and finally the role of technology in facilitating the cooperative resolution of conflict. This issue of Swords and Ploughshares carries some of the presentations made by these scholars.
Contents
Introduction 
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Dilemmas of Self-Determination [PDF]
Long-Term Causes of Conflict in Central Asia [PDF]
The Process of State Implosion [PDF]
PDD-25: A New Failure of Nerve? [PDF]
Humanitarian Assistance and Military Forces [PDF]
Misuse of Enforcement by the U.N. Security Council [PDF]
The Role of Technology in Civil Conflict Resolution [PDF]