[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: includes chapter on Timor-Leste

[Bu Wilson]

(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415670319/" style="color: purple; " target="_blank">Routledge website(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415670319/" style="color: purple; " target="_blank">Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific:

Why Some Subside and Others Don’t

 

Edited by Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey & Anthony Regan

Published September 2012 by Routledge; 298 pp.

Abstract

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline.

In few regions has the apparent decline in conflict been as dramatic as in the Asia-Pacific, with annual recorded battle deaths falling in the range of 50 to 75 percent between 1994 and 2004. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this book looks at internal conflicts based on the mobilization of ethnic and nationalist grievances, which have been the most costly in human lives over the last decade.

The book identifies structures, norms, practices and techniques that have either fuelled or moderated conflicts. As such, it is an essential read for students and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies and Asian studies.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Diminishing Conflicts: learning from the Asia-Pacific Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony Regan

 

Part 1: Conflict Diminished?

2. Timor Leste: international intervention, gender and the dangers of negative peace Susan Harris Rimmer

3. Maluku: anomie to reconciliation John Braithwaite

4. Aceh: democratization and the politics of co-option Edward Aspinall

5. Solomon Islands: from uprising to intervention Matthew Allen and Sinclair Dinnen

6. Punjab: federalism, elections, suppression Robin Jeffrey

7. Sri Lanka: the end of war and the continuation of struggle Bina D’Costa

 

Part 2: Conflict Deferred?

8. Bougainville: conflict deferred? Anthony Regan

9. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT): diminishing violence or violent peace? Kabita Chakma and Bina D’Costa

10. Eastern Burma: long wars without exhaustion Desmond Ball and Nicholas Farrelly

11. Fiji: the politics of conflict reduction Jon Fraenkel

 

Part 3: Conflict Undiminished?

12. Southern Thailand: marginalization, injustice and the failure to govern Tyrell Haberkorn

13. Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas: cause or symptom of national insecurity? Paul D’Arcy

14. Southern Philippines: the ongoing saga of Moro separatism Ron J. May

15. Kashmir: placating frustrated people Christopher Snedden

16. The Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea: conflict ignored Nicole Haley

17. Conclusion: Lessons Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony Regan



Comment on the book by Anthony Regan, co-editor

“This publication demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary research toward a singular concern - in this instance, conflict. One of the real strengths of the book is that each author, whilst writing about conflict, is an acknowledged international expert in the case study that they discuss. The volume is applicable to practitioners, policymakers, and academics, and highlights the deep academic knowledge on this issue that resides at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific”. 

 

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Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
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