Sustainable Peace: The Role of the Un and Regional Organizations in Preventing Conflict

By Connie Peck and David A. Hamburg

This book argues that the most sustainable means of promoting peace within states is the development of good governance, which can address the root causes of conflict and meet basic human security needs. Good governance offers groups a 'voice' in resolving grievances at an early stage before they grow into major problems, safeguards human rights, and promotes a fairer distribution of resources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847685616
• ISBN13: 9780847685615
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A review of the organizational school

Peck writes lucidly and with erudition, outlining the roles that myriad international organizations have played, or have capacity to play, in precipitating resolution to conflict. Of particular note and value is her focus upon mechanisms of function, rather than upon units of function. As organisations tend to redefine their roles upon a fairly frequent basis, Peck focuses instead upon what specific means of intervention seem to produce the greatest success. The only questionable aspect of this work is a marked tendency to view organizational interventions (by fairly large, significant actors: OSCE, OAU, OAS, UNDPKO) as really the only means by which conflict should be addressed, and peace built. That aside, Peck's work provides a remarkable catalogue of the role that organisations have been able to fill, and offers insightful analysis into how more peaceful future outcomes may be provided for.