How We Stopped War, 1990-2021:180 Historical Cases of Successful Efforts to Reduce Armed Conflict
“There have always been wars and there is nothing that can be done about it” That widespread notion is decisively disproven by these summaries of 180 wars that have been stopped or prevented since 1990. Many organizations and individuals have found ways to resolve conflicts and to make peace. We can learn a lot from […]
Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina – UPDATED
External Links:Bloomsbury AcademicAmazonGoogle Books On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered in Sarajevo to mark the official formation of a new, unified, and multiethnic military: The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet, just over a decade before, many of these soldiers had fought each other in a vicious conflict that […]
Stopping War: 101 Successful Efforts to Reduce Armed Conflict
The original objective of Dr. Short’s calling attention to 101 peacebuilding successes was to provide evidence that peacebuilding can in fact be effective in order to encourage more support for such work. The cases in this report clearly confirm that peacebuilders can not only prevent wars, but also actually stop political violence that has already […]
Peace and Conflict Since 1991: War, Intervention and Peacebuilding Organizations.
[ Co-Authored with Milt Lauenstein ] Peter Lang ( 2020 ) This book provides a fact-filled overview of the problem of political violence and what is being done to ameliorate it. The book presents extensive data about wars that have taken place since 1991, including information on what started and stopped them, the actions being […]