Realizing Peace: A Constructive Conflict Approach

413 Pages·2015·4.177 MB·English

by  Louis Kriesberg

realizing peace

Realizing Peace
A CONSTRUCTIVE CONFLICT APPROACH
Louis Kriesberg
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Kriesberg, Louis.
Realizing peace : a constructive conflict approach / Louis Kriesberg.
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ISBN 978–0–19–022866–8 (hardcover) — ISBN 978–0–19–022867–5 (paperback)
1. Peace-building—United States—History. 2. United States—Foreign relations—1945–1989.
3. United States—Foreign relations—1989– I. Title.
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Glossary ix
1. Toward More Constructive Conflicts 1
2. Escalations and De-escalations in the Cold War, 1945–1968 22
3. Transforming Conflicts, 1969–1988 57
4. Cold War Ends, New Conflicts Arise, 1989–1992 99
5. America in a Globalizing World, 1993–2000 137
6. The War on Terrorism and Other Foreign Conflicts, 2001–2008 186
7. Attempted Course Change after 2008 233
8. Building the Conditions for Constructive Strategies 282
notes 317
index 375
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Preface and Acknowledgments
i have spent much of my life preparing to write this book. I wanted to apply my
understanding of the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies to find better
ways to resolve conflicts than large-scale violence. My concern particularly was with
how Americans could constructively manage engagements in foreign conflicts. I
wanted to confront challenging problems and suggest specific actions that persons
inside and outside of the U.S. government might take that would have more con-
structive results.
Friends and colleagues who know that I often point to possible paths to positive
changes in terrible international conflicts, often point to a current international
mess and ask me challengingly, “What would you do NOW?” My deflective re-
sponse often would be, “You should have asked me five years ago.” I wrote this
book to think more systematically of serious answers to questions about what to
do now.
I am indebted to innumerable persons for their help over many years in under-
standing the conflicts about which I write in this book. They include former stu-
dents and now colleagues who do research and writing on the matters discussed in
the book and those who try to apply the ideas of conflict resolution and peace stud-
ies. I owe much to associates in community organizations, colleagues from many
countries in professional organizations, and colleagues in many conflict resolution
centers in the United States and abroad, as well as to several programs at the Max-
well School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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In particular, I want to mention the Syracuse Area Middle East Dialogue group
(SAMED); the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association; the
Peace, War and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association;
and the International Peace Research Association. I have benefitted from my en-
gagement in several Maxwell School programs, including Executive Education
and National Security Studies. I especially am grateful for the support and friend-
ship of Catherine Gerard, Elizabeth Myers, Deborah A. Toole, and all others as-
sociated with the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and
Collaboration.
I thank colleagues who read chapters of this book in earlier drafts, providing valu-
able information and insights: William Banks, Frederick F. Carriere, Bruce Dayton,
Miriam Elman, Galia Golan, Robert A. Rubinstein, Brian Taylor, and Stuart Thor-
son. I appreciate the support and excellent editorial handling of the manuscript by
Angela Chnapko, Oxford University Press editor.
I value the interest and comments of my sons Daniel Kriesberg and Joseph Kries-
berg and of their families about this book, and I acknowledge the incentive they give
me to try to make their world safer and less destructive than mine was. I thank es-
pecially Paula Freedman, my partner, who added so much joy to writing this book,
as she read and re-read every chapter with enthusiasm and critical editing.
Glossary
AFL American Federation of Labor
AFSC American Friends Service Committee
AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution
AU African Union
AUB American University of Beirut
BDA Banco Delta Asia
BDS Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations
CORE Committee of Racial Equality
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
DOD Department of Defense
DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
DLC Democratic Leadership Council
DOP Declaration of Principles
DOS Department of State
EC European Community
EU European Union
FOR Fellowship of Reconciliation
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
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