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Aiding Peace?: The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict

Jonathan Goodhand

		ISBN: 978-1-58826-462-6 $55.00
		ISBN: 978-1-58826-487-9 $23.50
	2006/239 pages

"This is an important contribution and will be the starting point for further research."—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs

DESCRIPTION

As nongovernmental organizations play a growing role in the international response to armed conflict tasked with mitigating the effects of war and helping to end the violence there is an acute need for information on the impact they are actually having. Addressing this need, Aiding Peace? explores just how NGOs interact with conflict and peace dynamics, and with what results.

Jonathan Goodhand compares the programs of international and national NGOs in seven conflict arenas: Afghanistan, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Moldova, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Well grounded in an analysis of the political-economy context of each conflict, his important and perhaps unexpected results point to essential policy and practice changes in the interest of enhanced NGO peacebuilding efforts. Not least, they also highlight the need for a fundamental adjustment of expectations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Goodhand is lecturer in the Development Studies Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Introduction.
Armed Conflict in Theory.
Armed Conflict in Practice.
Understanding Responses to Conflict: International Intervention and Aid.
NGOs and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peacebuilding.
Armed Conflict and the International Political and Policy Landscape.
NGO Programming and Capacities for Peacebuilding.
Politics, Policy, and Practice.

LC: 2006020578
A project of the International Peace Academy

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Aiding Peace?: The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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