International and Civil Conflict Resolution: Third-Party Intervention
Last updated: September 22, 2008
Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois
Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. VIII / No. 2-3 / Winter-Spring 1994
Summary
The articles in this special issue of Swords and Ploughshares are based on a workshop, “International and Civil Conflict Resolution: Third-Party Intervention,” held February 5, 1994, at the University of Illinois and organized by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security. The workshop addressed what has arguably become one of the most prominent threats to the security of the interstate system in the contemporary world: the increasing number of states that appear to be riven by ethnic and other types of conflicts, which sometimes lead to state collapse and which always create large numbers of refugees, thereby threatening neighboring countries.Nearly forty of the world’s countries are now afflicted by “militarized intrastate disputes,” or disputes that have resulted in at least a thousand casualties. Can the world community play a role in resolving some of these disputes and thus alleviate some of the resulting human suffering, particularly at a time when there is an increasing reluctance on the part of the world’s only superpower to become involved outside its borders?
Contents
Introduction 
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Westphalia Revisited [PDF]
Regional Alternatives to UN Peacekeeping Operations [PDF]
Intervention and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia [PDF]
Multilateral Initiatives in Defense of Democracy [PDF]
Military Operations Other Than War [PDF]
SARI: A Peace Process for South Asia [PDF]