Further Reading and Resources

Nov 12, 2003

If War Is Not the Answer, What Is? The Peaceful Prevention of Deadly Conflict

• Introduction: Developing an Alternative to War
• Policies for a More Secure World
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Further Reading and Resources

Further Reading and Resources

Reports & U.N. Resolutions

Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
The World Bank Group Policy Research Report
Full report available for download or purchase at http://econ.worldbank.org/prr/CivilWarPRR/

FCNL Analysis of the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States of America, April 2003
Full text of September 2002 National Security Strategy and FCNL analysis available at http://www.fcnl.org/issues/mil/sup/national_security-strategy.htm

Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
The final report of the Carnegie Commission, along with other publications, is available at http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/frpub.htm

Preventing War and Disaster: A Growing Global Challenge
UN Sec. General Kofi Annan's 1999 Annual Report on the Work of the Organization
Available on the United Nations website at http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/Report99/toc.htm

Prevention of Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary General
United Nations, June 7, 2001
This report is available on the Quaker United Nations (QUNO) website at http://www.afsc.org/quno/Resources/SGPrvRpt.pdf

Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
August 21, 2000, Lakhdar Brahimi, chairman of the panel on United Nations Peace Operations
Available on the UN website at http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/

The Responsibility to Protect
Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
Available at http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/iciss-ciise/menu-en.asp

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000)
October 31, 2000: The Security Council calls on all Member States to increase representation of women within local, national and global institutions and increase attention to gender issues within peacemaking processes.
Resolution available at the UN website: http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/5451769.html

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1366 (2001)
August 30, 2001: The Security Council establishes the prevention of armed conflict as an "integral part of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security."
Resolution available at the UN website:  http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/6580126.html

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 57/337 (2003)
July 18, 2003: The UN General Assembly calls for "a comprehensive and coherent strategy comprising short-term operational and long-term structural measures for the prevention of armed conflict," while affirming the principles and directives of the Secretary General's report.
Resolution available at the UN website: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/r57.htm

Websites

Carnegie Commission on Prevention of Deadly Conflict
http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/index.htm

Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cicr/

Center for Strategic & International Studies, Preventive Diplomacy
http://www.csis.org/prevdip/cp_index.htm

Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/

Eastern Mennonite University, Conflict Transformation Program
http://www.emu.edu/ctp/

European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation
http://www.conflict-prevention.net/

Friends Committee on National Legislation
http://www.fcnl.org/

Global Action to Prevent War
http://www.globalactionpw.org/

International Crisis Group
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/

Quaker United Nations Office
http://www.afsc.org/quno.htm

Search for Common Ground
http://www.sfcg.org/

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Conflict Prevention &Recovery
http://www.undp.org/erd/

United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Conflict Prevention
http://www.usaid.gov/pubs/confprev/

United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Conflict Prevention Project
http://wwics.si.edu/

Books

Cases and Strategies for Preventive Action
Center for Preventive Action, Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Twentieth Century Fund, Edited by Barnett R. Rubin, the Century Foundation Press, 1998.
Copies available through the publisher, 1 (800) 552-5450

Conflict Prevention: Path to Peace of Grand Illusion?
Edited by David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel, United Nations University Press, 2003.
Copies available through the publisher, 2 United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-1462-70, New York, NY 10017, (212) 963-6387

Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy
By Michael S. Lund, United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996.
Copies available through the publisher, 1550 M St., NW, Washington D.C. 20005

Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation
Edited by William Zartman, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 2001.
Copies available through the Conflict Prevention Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004-3027 (202) 691-4187

War Prevention Works: 50 Stories of People Resolving Conflicts
By Dylan Matthews, published by Oxford Research Group, September 2001. This book contains 50 short accounts from all over the world of what ordinary people are doing to prevent & resolve conflicts peacefully.
Copies are available from the publisher at 51 Plantation Road, Oxford OX2 6JE, United Kingdom, or through their website at www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk

Videos

Bringing Down a Dictator
A co-production for PBS by York Zimmerman Inc. and is written, directed and produced by Steve York. This documentary tells the story of Otpor, the student group whose non-violent organizing in Serbia mobilized the population and helped bring down Slobodan Milosevic.
For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/weta/dictator/film/. Copies of the documentary are available through Films for the Humanities at 1-800-257-5126, or visit http://www.films.com

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
A co-production for PBS by York Zimmerman Inc. and WETA, Washington, D.C., written and produced by Steve York. This three hour documentary tells the stories of six successful nonviolent movements, from South Africa to Denmark, Chile to Poland, whose participants took on some of the most brutal and repressive regimes of the 20th century and were able to resist or dismantle these regimes through nonviolent action. For more information, see the PBS website at http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/.
Copies of the documentary are available through Films For the Humanities at 1-800-257-5126, or visit http://www.films.com