Long-Term Conflict Prevention and Industrial Development

The United Nations and Its Specialized Agency, Unido
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13619-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Nijhoff Law Specials

After decades of striving to prevent international conflict, major armed conflicts in the 1990s have taken place within national boundaries. After the series of national independence wars in the 1950s and 1960s and frequent geopolitical wars in the 1970s and 1980s, a category of 'wars of the third kind' prevailed. The aim of this book is to consider the root causes of recent internal conflicts, and to develop long-term conflict prevention strategies from here. New insights suggest the central role of politico-economic inequalities in ethnic, religious and cultural conflict. The United Nations system has just started to adjust to this new reality of conflict and make long-term conflict prevention a priority issue on international agendas. Whereas development practitioners should principally conceive their work through a conflict prevention lens, there is a shift in focus to United Nations agencies that deal with the economic characteristics of conflict. The unbroken significance of a sustainable industrial development process in developing countries, may allow the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) a particular vantage point and role in the long-term prevention of conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bredel, Ralf

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Währungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Über Autor(innen)

Ralf Bredel is a Researcher-in-Residence with the Europe and Newly Independent States Bureau of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. He holds doctor degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Vienna, and has been a visiting research fellow with the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, and the International Development Centre (Queen Elizabeth House) at the University of Oxford.