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Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Author: Christine Bichsel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1134035179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides the first systematic analysis of peace-building in Central Asia for inter-ethnic conflicts over water and land in the Ferghana Valley based on concrete, in-depth and on-site investigation. The core analysis centres on peace-building projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan by three international aid agencies –an international NGO, a bilateral governmental donor and a multilateral agency – and the shared approach which the donors developed and used for conflict transformation. Using ethnographic case material, the author critically examines both the theoretical assumptions guiding this approach and its empirical outcomes when put into practice. Building on existing work in conflict transformation and the ethnography of international assistance in Central Asia, the book sheds light on Western attempts to transform the post-socialist societies of Central Asia and provides fresh empirical data on and insights into irrigation practices, social institutions, and state and identity formation in the Ferghana Valley. The book provides a novel and innovative approach to the study of development assistance and peace-building. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of Central Asian Studies, post-Soviet Studies, Development and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Central Asia : conflict, resolution, and change
Author: Roald Z. Sagdeev
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780967023311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cooperation and Conflict Management in Central Asia
Author: Reimund Seidelmann
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783631524466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The newly independent states in Central Asia face development, transformation and regionalization challenges. These include the definition of their domestic and foreign national politics, the build-up of peaceful regional cooperation and the management of the Islamic fundamentalism, sustainable socio-economic development and the rehabilitation of the environment - in particular water resources. Apart from country studies the volume presents results from two collaborative research projects on Central Asia regarding water resources and political developments. It combines views from politicians and scientists both from Central Asia and Germany towards these matters and gives an overview about the most pressing problems as well as ideas for their solution in the Central Asian region.
Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Author: Christine Bichsel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1134035187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deals with irrigation disputes and conflict transformation in Central Asia. It analyzes aid projects which seek to transform inter-community conflicts between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the Ferghana Valley, addressing both the practicalities of aid and the discourses within which notions of these practicalities are formed.
Crossroads and Conflict
Author: Gary K. Bertsch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 113668445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world's second largest reserves of petroleum lie beneath the land-locked Caspian Sea, making the Caucasus of vital importance to both regional and global economic and security interests. This book brings together experts from the US, Russia and the Caucasus to examine the issues of conflict, foreign policy tradeoffs, and security in the region. It takes into account the geopolitical factors, Western and Russian involvement, and the interaction between domestic and external pressures. Crossroads and Conflict looks at the challenges faced by these countries and examines the possibilities for future peace and prosperity in the region.
Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Author: Karen Dawisha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-06-13
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521597319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the former Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The Challenge of Regional Cooperation in Central Asia
Power, Networks and Violent Conflict in Central Asia
Author: Idil Tunçer-Kılavuz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-27
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1317805119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the five Central Asian republics gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, expectations of violent conflict were widespread. Indeed, the country of Tajikistan suffered a five-year civil war from 1992 to 1997. The factors that the literature on civil wars in general and on the Tajikistan civil war in particular cites as the causes of war were also present in Uzbekistan – but this country had a peaceful transition. Examining this empirical puzzle by isolating the crucial factors that caused war to break out in Tajikistan but not Uzbekistan, this book applies a powerful comparative approach to the broader question of why civil wars occur. Based on fieldwork in both countries, it challenges many common explanations of civil war both generally and in Tajikistan in particular. This includes highlighting the importance of elites’ power perceptions, which have their origins in the interaction of structural-, process-, and network-related variables. Without examining these interactions, macro-structural explanations alone cannot explain the occurrence of civil war in one country and its absence in another. Applying the insights of bargaining theories of war from the literature on international relations to the civil war in Tajikistan, this book will be of interest to students of violent conflict, civil wars, Central Asia and Asian Politics.
