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This article examines the assumptions that underlie theories of conflict management and asks whether traditional means used to ameliorate violent conflict are appropriate given the complex interrelationships that typify life in war zones. By applying Pierre Bourdieu's concept ofhabituswe argue that intervention in violent conflict is limited by both the policymakers' and the intervenors' own life experiences and cultures. This curtails the range of alternatives that are “perceived” to be available for managing conflict. We use the example of United Nations peacekeeping as a means of illustrating the limitations of current conflict management techniques as they are applied at the ground level. The article concludes with a discussion of typical approaches to conflict management used by peacekeepers and ways that such environmentally and culturally constrained thinking can be overc

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00625.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Postmodernism is a useful tool for expanding our conceptualization and application of peace studies. In particular, as a system of ideas that stresses the unavoidably ethnocentric and normative character of Western assumptions about conflict resolution, postmodernism offers us a means to adjust planning and expectations to different societal conditions. Cultural differences are neither trivial nor peripheral. In peace studies, just as in the conventional political arena, Americans need to guard against what Noam Chomsky has called the “tradition of naivete and self‐righteousness that disfigures our intellectual histo

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00626.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Book reviewed in this article:Peace/Mir: An Anthology of Historic Alternatives to War, edited by Charles Chatfield and Ruzanna Ilukhina.Realizing Peace: An Introduction to Peace Studies, by Thomas Keefe and Ron E. Roberts.Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide(6th edition), edited by Michael T. Klare.

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00627.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Book reviewed in this article:Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s, by Amy Swerdlow.One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953, by Lawrence S. Wittner.American Women in the 1960's: Changing the Future, by Blanche Linden‐Ward and Carol Hurd Green.Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze, by Robert Kleidman.Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, by John Lofland.Justice and the Genesis of War, by David A. Welch.Global Gender Issues, by V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan.Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation, by Frank Kofsky.Making War and Waging Peace: Foreign Intervention in Africa, edited by David R. Smock.South Africa's Other Whites: Voices for Change, by Robert Scott Jaster and Shirley Kew Jaster.Peace&Change, January 1, 1994—August 31, 1994 Report From the Edi

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00628.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00629.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00630.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0149-0508    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0130.1995.tb00631.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY