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Making Peace
A unique insider's view of how peace is being built in practice under extreme circumstances in places like Aceh.
The Mediator
- The first biography in English of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Finnish statesman and diplomat who brokered peace deals in Kosovo, Namibia and Indonesia.
War and Public Health
The first comprehensive examination of the relationship between war and public health, this book documents the public health consequences of war and describes what health professionals can do to minimize these consequences and even help prevent war altogether. It explores the effects of war on health, human rights, and the environment. The health and environmental impact of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons--is described in chapters that cover the consequences of their production, testing, maintenance, use, and disposal. Separate chapters cover especially vulnerable populations, such as women, children, and refugees. In-depth...
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.
From the Ground Up
The tsunami that struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 evoked international sympathy on a scale beyond any previous natural disaster. The international relief effort broke all records both in scale and diversity, with seven billion U.S. dollars donated from all over the world through public and private agencies for Sumatra alone. Simply as a reconstruction effort, therefore, the disbursement of those funds and the rebuilding of housing, infrastructure, and economy posed major national and international challenges. However this was not simply a reconstruction effort. Aceh at that time was a war zone, with Indonesia's military engaged in a major operation to crus...
Beyond Disasters
Unnatural" disasters -- The march toward disaster -- Understanding factors of vulnerability -- Storm clouds and silver linings -- Case study: Aceh : peacemaking after the Tsunami -- Case study: Sri Lanka : a "double blow" to development -- Case study: Kashmir : physical tremor, but no political earthquake -- Creating future opportunities for peace.
Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870–1990
This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated in the areas of culture and knowledge formation in a manner now recognised as colonial. Namibian people’s ways of being in the world was transformed when the Finnish Missionary Society started its work in Owambo in 1870 and introduced Christianity and European modes of education, medicine, material culture and social practices. In time, cultural colonialism faded and during the Namibian struggle for independence from South African rule in 1966–1990 Finns took an actively anti-colonial approach. The book was written as a collaborative effort of Namibian, Finnish and South African scholars.
Hadir Untuk Perdamaian Dari Poso hingga Afghanistan
Siapa mengira Amerika Serikat yang selama puluhan bahkan seratus tahun lebih menjadi ‘kiblatnya’ demokrasi menjadi paradoks sebagai negara yang ‘anti demokrasi’, bahkan muncul konflik, perebutan kekuasaan, diskriminasi dan korban nyawa. Baik dalam proses pemerintahan dibawah pimpinan Donald Trump, maupun saat proses pemilu dan peralihan kekuasaan dari Trump ke Biden. Fenomena yang hampir sama, bahkan belum kunjung usai, konflik terpendam, maupun konflik terbuka yang terjadi di negeri ini. Usai, konflik pilkada Jakarta, berlanjut ke Pemilihan Presiden, bahkan ketika dua kandidat yang bertarung Joko Widodo – Ma’ruf Amin dan Prabowo Sandiaga Uno sudah ‘akur’, berada dalam perahu...
TNI dan Perdamaian di Aceh Catatan 880 Hari Pra dan Pasca-MoU Helsinki
Tidak bisa dimungkiri, damai memang membawa berkah. Walaupun demikian, bisa jadi, tidak semua pihak senang ketika damai terwujud. Damai Aceh juga membawa berkah. Bagi masyarakat Aceh sendiri, damai menjadikan mereka bisa hidup nyaman, tanpa ada ketakutan dan kekhawatiran serta ancaman akan kehidupan dan masa depannya. Bagi pemerintah pusat dan daerah, dengan damai bisa membangun Aceh tanpa terkendala oleh konflik. Demikian pula dengan dunia internasional, tidak hanya lalu lintas laut di Selat Malaka menjadi aman, tetapi juga menjadi pembelajaran dan cermin bagi wilayah lain di dunia ini bahwa damai itu indah. Bagi dunia akademis, Damai Aceh ibarat mata air perdamaian yang tak ada habisnya un...
To See the Unseen
Author's account as a member of the Indonesian delegation of the Helsinki agreement, and his support peace in creating Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement.
