1st Edition
New Paths and Policies towards Conflict Prevention Chinese and Swiss Perspectives
Introduction: Understanding Conflict Prevention in the Shifting Global Context
Rachel F. Madenyika and Jason Tower
Part I: The Broader Norms of Prevention and Building Peace
1. How to sustain peace? A review of the scholarly debate
Björn Gehrmann
2. Political Violence Prevention: Definitions and Implications
Stephanie C. Hofmann
3. A Tale of Two ‘Peaces’: Peacebuilding in the Twenty-First Century: Liberal Peace, Developmental Peace and Peacebuilding
Yin He
4. How to Curb Conflict: Policy Lessons from the Economic Literature
Dominic Rohner
Part II: Approaches to Preventing Conflict
5. The Deep Roots of Swiss Conflict Prevention
David Lanz
6. Considerations for the Design and Preparation of National Dialogue Processes
Katia Papagianni
7. China and Mediation: Principles and Practice
Tiewa Liu
Part III: Opportunities for Peace?
8. How to Understand the Peacebuilding Potential of the Belt and Road Initiative
Dongyan Li
9. Security Sector Reform and Conflict Prevention
Albrecht Schnabel
10. ‘A Community of Shared Future for Mankind’ and Implications for Conflict Prevention
Guihong Zhang
Conclusion: Future Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Conflict
Rachel F. Madenyika and Jason Tower
Biography
Courtney J. Fung is Assistant Professor of International Relations at The University of Hong Kong.
Björn Gehrmann is a German Diplomat and Mediator, who worked for the Human Security Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2019.
Rachel F. Madenyika is UN Representative at the Quaker United Nations Office in New York, USA.
Jason G. Tower directs the Burma program of the United States Institute of Peace (Formerly Southeast Asia Regional Advisor, PeaceNexus Foundation, Yangon).
