Islands of agreement : managing enduring armed rivalries / Gabriella Blum.

By: Blum, Gabriella [Author]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2007]Copyright date: c2007Description: xiii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 067402446X (alk. paper); 9780674024465 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Peaceful change (International relations) -- Case studies | Conflict management -- Case studiesDDC classification: 327.172 LOC classification: JZ5538 | .B58 2007
Contents:
Islands of agreement: the conceptual framework -- India and Pakistan: islands of the subcontinent -- Greece and Turkey: archipelagos of agreement -- Israel and Lebanon: an island of agreement at work -- Testing theory in practice.
Summary: "We are culturally conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms of strict opposition. Correspondingly, we tend to focus our attention on conflict prevention or conflict resolution. But as Islands of Agreement demonstrates, peace and war are seldom polar totalities but increasingly can and do coexist within the confines of a single scenario." "Through a strategy she calls 'islands of agreement, ' Blum argues that within the most entrenched and bitter struggles, adversaries can carve out limited areas that remain safe or even prosperous amidst a tide of war. These havens effectively reduce suffering and loss and allow mutually beneficial exchanges to take place, offering hope for broader accords."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-337) and index.

Islands of agreement: the conceptual framework -- India and Pakistan: islands of the subcontinent -- Greece and Turkey: archipelagos of agreement -- Israel and Lebanon: an island of agreement at work -- Testing theory in practice.

"We are culturally conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms of strict opposition. Correspondingly, we tend to focus our attention on conflict prevention or conflict resolution. But as Islands of Agreement demonstrates, peace and war are seldom polar totalities but increasingly can and do coexist within the confines of a single scenario." "Through a strategy she calls 'islands of agreement, ' Blum argues that within the most entrenched and bitter struggles, adversaries can carve out limited areas that remain safe or even prosperous amidst a tide of war. These havens effectively reduce suffering and loss and allow mutually beneficial exchanges to take place, offering hope for broader accords."--Jacket.

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