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Violent crises and internal wars are often consequences of the failure of states to provide stability and security for their citizens. International organisations and development agencies, in order to overcome cultures of violence and to support nation-building processes, have focused on security sector reform as an integral part of third-party intervention in recent years. This issue of the Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series examines the arguments for engagement with the security sector and provides an analysis of the dilemmas that arise, along with suggestions for how they might be overcome.

• Year2004

Considers how international agencies providing humanitarian assistance, development aid and/or support to peace processes can understand what their impacts are. The article builds on a collaborative learning project and identifies two major challenges: 1) selecting criteria or indicators for assessing progress; and 2) determining who or what particular outcomes can be attributed to. (revised for 2004 print edition)

• Year2004
• Author(s)Mary B. Anderson

The articles by Hugh Miall and Cordula Reimann in Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation (2001) attempt to map out a distinct theory of conflict transformation, but in the process they present the field of conflict resolution as a problem-solving theory (herein after, referred individually as ‘Article 1’ and ‘Article 2’, and collectively as ‘the Articles’). Conflict resolution is represented in the Articles by singularity of strategy, target group and as envisaging an end point to conflicts, when parties arrive at a ‘positive sum outcome’ (Miall, 2001:3; Reimann, 2001:13). This leads to a claim that conflict resolution is a relatively simplistic approach to contemporary conflicts (Miall, 2001:1), hence the Articles consider and develop conflict transformation as a more realistic approach to protracted violent conflict situations

• Year2003
• Author(s)Githathevi Kanisin

Over the last ten years, interest in conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities has increased significantly. As a result of this interest, there is a high demand for "model" projects, examples of good practice and "lessons learned" which can be transferred to other projects and regions. Supply, though, does not match this demand. There are still no quick and easy answers to the question of how best to assess, monitor and evaluate peace practices. On the contrary, experience shows that assessing and measuring the impact and outcomes of peacebuilding activities is actually a very complicated task. The articles and comments in this first issue of the Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series reflect the state of the art in peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA) from a variety of angles.

• Year2003

[Resumen traducido automáticamente] Se ocupa de los desafíos de vincular la teoría, la investigación y la práctica, y ofrece estrategias para hacerlo en todas las áreas relevantes del cambio social. El autor sostiene que las fuentes estructurales de conflicto han sido relativamente descuidadas en el análisis de conflictos y en el diseño de procesos de intervención. Hasta que esta situación no se revierta, será difícil generar relaciones estables, pacíficas y justas. (revisado para la edición impresa de 2004)

• Year2002
• Author(s)Kevin Clements

[Resumen traducido automáticamente] Un estudio de caso sobre el papel que pueden jugar los medios en el conflicto etnopolítico. Los autores retratan iniciativas de la ONG European Center for Common Ground en Grecia y Turquía, Macedonia, Sierra Leona y Burundi y comparten lecciones sobre el diseño, implementación y evaluación de proyectos destinados a cooperar con los medios de comunicación, promover el pluralismo y fomentar los estándares éticos en el periodismo.

• Year2002
• Author(s)Sandra Melone, Georgios Terzis, Ozsel Beleli

[Özet makine çevirisi] Teori, araştırma ve pratiği birbirine bağlamanın zorluklarını ele alır ve sosyal değişimin tüm ilgili alanlarında bunu yapmak için stratejiler sunar. Yazar, çatışma analizinde ve müdahale süreçlerinin tasarımında yapısal çatışma kaynaklarının görece ihmal edildiğini savunuyor. Bu durum tersine dönene kadar istikrarlı, barışçıl ve adil ilişkiler kurmak zor olacaktır. (2004 baskı baskısı için revize edildi)

• Year2002
• Author(s)Kevin Clements

[Özet makine çevirisi] Medyanın etnopolitik çatışmada oynayabileceği role ilişkin bir vaka çalışması. Yazarlar, Yunanistan ve Türkiye, Makedonya, Sierra Leone ve Burundi'deki STK Avrupa Ortak Zemin Merkezi'nin girişimlerini tasvir ediyor ve medyayla işbirliği yapmayı, çoğulculuğu teşvik etmeyi ve gazetecilikte etik standartları teşvik etmeyi amaçlayan projelerin tasarımı, uygulanması ve değerlendirilmesi hakkında dersler paylaşıyorlar.

• Year2002
• Author(s)Sandra Melone, Georgios Terzis, Ozsel Beleli

[Resumen traducido automáticamente] Explora la importancia de la reforma estatal para la transformación de áreas devastadas por la guerra. El autor presenta tres enfoques estratégicos: estrategias participativas (es decir, democratización, fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil, diálogo); fortalecimiento institucional y reforma institucional (es decir, federalización, descentralización, reforma constitucional y judicial); y necesidades de seguridad (es decir, derechos humanos, seguridad humana). (revisado para la edición impresa de 2004)

• Year2002
• Author(s)Günter Bächler

[Resumen traducido automáticamente] Ofrece una visión general de los hallazgos actuales sobre las causas de los conflictos armados, identificando la injusticia y la movilización como conceptos clave. El autor comparte ideas sobre dónde buscar señales de una posible escalada, dónde buscar y cómo aprovechar las oportunidades para prevenir una escalada violenta. (revisado para la edición impresa de 2004)

• Year2002
• Author(s)Dan Smith