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Additional Explanations of the Underlying Concepts: Online (Web) Sources Glaser, Tanya. "Structure: Lenses for the Big Picture -- Summary." University of Colorado: Conflict Research Consortium. Available at: Link This is a summary of a chapter in Building Peace by John Paul Lederach, entitled Structure: Lenses for the Big Picture. In this chapter Lederach presents a framework for understanding the structure of armed conflicts. The author analyzes the actors involved using a three level model. At the top level are elite leaders. Offline (Print) Sources Safty, Adel, ed. Leadership and Global Governance. Universal Publishers, 2002. This edited volume brings together contributions from a number of distinguished international figures who "discuss the leadership challenges facing the international community with reference to globalisation, the United Nations, peaceful resolution of disputes, public policy in the United States and elsewhere. They address these issues from their own cultural perspectives ranging from South Africa, the United States, to Japan the Middle East and Latin America, within the context of leadership challenges that they personally experienced." -From Publisher Safty, Adel, ed. Leadership and the United Nations. Universal Publishers, 2002. In this volume, "serving and former UN leaders and other leaders from around the world discuss some of the issues facing the United Nations and the international community in the 21st century. The discussion is usually framed in the context of leadership challenges." -From Publisher Lederach, John Paul. "Structure: Lenses for the Big Picture." In Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies. Herndon, VA: USIP Press, December 1997. Pages: 37-61. In chapter four, Lederach discusses the hierarchical structure of populations affected by conflict and suggests that we view this hierarchy in terms of a pyramid. The top level of this pyramid has the fewest number of people and includes top military, political, and religious leaders. This elite leadership plays a central role in the development of peace agreements. Primary Link [Backup Link] Examples Illustrating this Topic: Online (Web) Sources Come Together: From Confrontation to Conversation. 2004. Available at: http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/details.cfm?id=162 [Backup Link] An interview with Ivan Eland, Robert Reich, and Russell Train. Opposites may attract in love and physics but seldom in politics. Yet, some political opposites are indeed coming together. Driven by the notion that leadership has gone haywire, progressives and conservatives are finding common ground in what they oppose and what they propose. Join us for a journey beyond left and right. Boergers, Mary. "Track 1 1/2 Diplomacy in Northern Ireland." Peaceworks, No. 20 , May 1998 Available at: http://www.usip.org/pubs/peaceworks/smock20/chap7-20.html [Backup Link] This article describes the Track 1 1/2 Diplomacy project of the Ireland U.S. Public Leadership Program (IUSPLP). This project focuses on educating young political leaders from Northern Ireland on new diplomatic and peacebuilding skills. The goal is to effect the future in a positive way, through education today. Prendergast, John. U.S. Leadership in Resolving African Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia-Eritrea. Available at: http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr74.html [Backup Link] This report examines the role of Clinton Administration officials in helping to broker a peace settlement in the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, at the end of the 1990s. The Ethiopia-Eritrea case demonstrates that high-level, sustained, continuous U.S. engagement in peacemaking in Africa can have a major positive impact. Prendergast, John. U.S. Leadership in Resolving African Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia-Eritrea. United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Available at: Primary Link [Backup Link] This article describes the pro-active role that U.S. President Bill Clinton and other top U.S. officials took, along with envoys from the Organization for African Unity and European Union, to broker a peace settlement between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The case "demonstrates that high-level, sustained, continuous U.S. engagement in peacemaking in Africa can have a major positive impact." What Were the 1978 Camp David Peace Accords?. Available at: Primary Link [Backup Link] This page offers a short description of what took place during the course of the Camp David negotiations in November 1978. The negotiations involved top leaders from Israel (Prime Minister Menachem Begin), Egypt (President Anwar Sadat), and the U.S. (Jimmy Carter served as the mediator). This page includes several links to further informative information on the Camp David Accords. Offline (Print) Sources Schlesinger, Arthur M. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Miflin, January 1, 1965. This book examines President John F. Kennedy's time in office. It describes the actions he took in times of crisis, specifically during the Cuban crisis, that led to de-escalation. Watkins, Michael, Susan Rosegrant and Shimon Peres. Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2001. This work offers step-by-step descriptions of the key negotiations that led to the resolution of some of the most serious conflicts since the Cold War. The authors provide stories about negotiations in the Middle East, Bosnia, and North Korea. Discussion of relevant negotiation theory is combined with the first-hand accounts of individuals that played important roles in the negotiations described. Primary Link Safty, Adel. From Camp David to the Gulf: Negotiations, Language and Propaganda, and War. Black Rose Books, January 1996. This work presents analyses of the 1978 Camp David negotiations regarding the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as negotiations revolving around the first war in Iraq. The author concentrates on dissecting the language and propaganda employed by the leaders involved, as well as the media interpretations involved in these scenarios. Safty, Adel, ed. Leadership and Conflict Resolution. Universal Publishers, 2002. In this work, a "number of distingusihed leaders and scholars address the leadership challenges inherent in the peaceful resolution of some of the major conflicts around the globe. These include the Middle East, Ruwanda, Northern Ireland, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union." -From Publisher Kellerman, Barbara and Jeffrey Z. Rubin. Leadership and Negotiation in the Middle East. New York: Praeger, 1988. This book looks at the Israel-Lebanon conflict of 1982 in examining the role of national leaders as key actors in international politics and conflict management. Among leaders discussed are Menachem Begin, Yassir Arafat, Syria's Hafez al-Assad, Hosini Mubarak, King Hussein, Brezhnev, and Ronald Reagan. Audiovisual Materials on this Topic: Offline (Print) Sources Security Council . First Run Icarus Films. 1982. The film reviews several United Nations Security Council cases involving disarmament and arms limitation agreements, security guarantees, deadlines, and sanctions. It explains the role formal intermediaries and elite leaders play in the enacting and enforcing of UN policies. Primary Link [Backup Link] |
