Coicaud presents a thoughtful and wide-ranging survey of the UN’s contribution to peacekeeping and world politics after the Cold War.

Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primary

Coincaud, Jean-marc

Foreign & International Law

United States Inst of Peace Pr

Of unparalleled breadth, depth, and authority, the Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice is a criminal law reform tool tailored to the needs of countries emerging from conflict. Its three volumes present four complete legal codes that national and international actors can use to create, overhaul, update, or plug gaps in the criminal laws in individual post-conflict states. Each volume offers not only substantive legal provisions but also expert commentary that explains wording choices, elaborates on the content of the provisions, and highlights associated considerations and reforms.This volume, the first to be published (the second and third volumes will appear in spring 2008 and spring 2009), opens with a User’s Guide that explains the development, purpose, and content of the book, and then lays out a comprehensive Model Criminal Code. The code is divided into two parts: a “General Part” that contains general principles of criminal law and penalties, and a “Special Part” that presents a catalog of criminal offenses, including those such as sexual offenses, organized crime, and corruption that are particularly common or destabilizing in post-conflict environments.The Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice is the culmination of a six-year project spearheaded by the United States Institute of Peace and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. More than two hundred experts and practitioners from across the world were involved in the drafting, vetting, and revision of the provisions and their commentaries. This enormous breadth of expertise has allowed the Model Codes to draw on lessons learned in a variety of post-conflict states and from the laws of a remarkable variety of the world’s legal systems and traditions. The result is an indispensable resource for those striving to reestablish the rule of law in societies recently wracked by violent conflict.―Each copy of this volume contains a CD of the complete text.

Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice: Modern Criminal Code

Criminal Law

Volume II of Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice continues the path-breaking work of volume I, providing an indispensable resource for those striving to reestablish the rule of law in societies recently wracked by violent conflict.

Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice: Model Code of Criminal Procedure

Politics & Social Sciences

Vivienne O'Connor

Politics & Government

Confronting the Truth shows how countries, which have experienced massive human rights violations, have created official, independent bodies known as truth commissions.Since 1983, truth commissions have been established in over 20 countries, in all parts of the world. Confronting the Truth documents the work of truth commissions in South Africa, Peru, East Timor, and Morocco. Taking testimony from victims and perpetrators, and conducting detailed investigations, truth commissions create a historical record of abuses that have often remained secret. They identify patterns of abuse, and the structural and institutional weaknesses, and societal and cultural problems, and weak legal systems that made the violation possible. To remedy these faults, they recommend governmental, societal and legal reforms to address the pain of the past, to safeguard human rights and due process, and to ensure that the horror will not be repeated.This video is 73 minutes long and in stereo. Please note that there are two different English language DVDs: one for PAL technology and one for NTSC technology.

Confronting the Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition

York, Steve

Fair explores the true significance of the madrassah and its role in Pakistan’s educational system. She chronicles the Pakistan government’s efforts to reform the madrassah system and offers important policy implications and suggestions for initiatives that might address some of the main concerns emanating from ostensible ties between education and security inside and outside Pakistan.

The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan (Perspectives)

Business & Money

Fair, C. Christine

Economics

Identity, Diversity And, Constitutionalism in Africa

In this innovative and stimulating volume, Francis Deng outlines a new relationship between governments and societies―a relationship informed by Western concepts but based on traditional African values such as respect for human dignity, equality, and self-rule.

Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa

Deng, Francis M.

Deng, Daniel J.

Deng, David K.

Jimenez, Vanessa

Sociology

Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War

Bringing together the experiences and insights of more than thirty experienced and emerging authors, human rights activists, and peace practitioners from Colombia and abroad, Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia in recent years.

History

Americas

American Negotiating Behavior: Wheeler-Dealers, Legal Eagles, Bullies, and Preachers (Cross-Cultural Negotiation Books)

Informed by discussions and interviews with more than fifty seasoned foreign and American negotiators, this landmark study offers a rich and detailed portrait of the negotiating practices of American officials. Including contributions by eleven international experts, i assesses the multiple influences―cultural, institutional, historical, and political―that shape how American policymakers and diplomats approach negotiations with foreign counterparts and highlights behavioral patterns that transcend the actions of individual negotiators and administrations.

American Negotiating Behavior: Wheeler-Dealers, Legal Eagles, Bullies, and Preachers

Solomon, Richard H.

Quinney, Nigel

This volume explores how peacemakers can productively work with informal mini coalitions of states or intergovernmental organizations that provide support for resolving conflicts and implementing peace agreements―an innovation often referred to as groups of “Friends.”

Working With Groups of Friends (Peacemaker's Toolkit)

Whitfield, Teresa

NATO's Balancing Act evaluates the alliance’s performance of its three core tasks―collective defense, crisis management, and cooperative security―and reviews its members’ efforts to achieve the right balance among them. Yost considers NATO's role in the evolving global security environment and its implications for collective defense and crisis management in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Africa, Libya, and elsewhere.

NATO's Balancing Act

Engineering & Transportation

Yost, David S.

Engineering

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