Publisher's Synopsis
This study is based on participative field research in Serbia, Croatia,, Eastern Slavonia and latterly Bosnia between 1992 and 1996. It addresses the nature and impact of second-track interventions, with particular emphasis on: local strategies for preventing the escalation of violence; capacity building for peace amid structural conduciveness for war; the transition from new social movements to NGO formations; tenstions between the "therapeutic" and "direct action" approaches to conflict resolution; and dilemmas in training and engagement, for example, the "facilitation versus empowerment" debate. The book should be of interest to practitioners, policy-makers, students of development, international relations, conflict analysis and peach-building. International relations students should be particularly interested in this analysis of the role of non-official actors in determining (or not) the course of war or the building of peace. Development students should find the study combines development theory and international realizations in analyzing a complex political emergency.
