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"Nearly fifty percent of peace agreements break down before they can be implemented, and sometimes the war that resumes can be even worse than before. This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of the peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia. The successes and failures in these three countries highlight the incentives available to ...

This book traces the end of hostilities and the often acrimonious, sometimes naive, but always laboured negotiations towards peace and elections in Mozambique. There is careful examination of the many international actors involved, from the covert intervention of South Africa, the reaction of other African states, the role of the United Nations and that of humanitarian and religious groups. Care is ...

Conceptualising peacekeeping -- UN peacekeeping operations : overview of case studies and relevance to evolving concepts and practice -- Conceptualising co-deployment -- International experiment with co-deployment -- Wars and armed conflicts in Africa : challenges to peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies -- UN peacekeeping in Africa : an overview -- OAU peacekeeping ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index. xii, 192 pages : map ; 23 cm

This book reveals the little known story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Through a remarkable series of events involving the humanitarian intervention of Chiune Sugihara, and Jan Zwartendijk, the Jews found an escape route to safety. During only a few precious weeks in the summer of ...

Zur Abteilung IV der Reichsstatthalterei Oberdonau gehörte in der Unterabteilung IVc (Wirtschaft und Arbeit) das Sachgebiet IVc/W4 mit dem Aufgabenbereich der "Entjudung (mit Ausnahme des landwirtschaftlichen Grundbesitzes)", ab 1944 lautet das Aktenzeichen Ib/J.

Guy Arnold has specialised in African and Third World affairs for the last 40 years and is the author of books on these themes. In this text, he provides a landmark modern history of the world's most troubled and misunderstood continent. The end of the Second World War heralded the rapid end of European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1963, thirty African ...

Bibliogr.: p. [509]-518. XXII, 548 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"This series showcases new scholarship exploring the backgrounds of human rights today. With an open-ended chronology and international perspective, the series seeks works attentive to the surprises and contingencies in the historical origins and legacies of human rights ideals and interventions. Books in the series will focus not only on the intellectual antecedents and foundations of human rights, ...