Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End

Roy Licklider

Published by New York University Press 1993

Stopping the Killing

How Civil Wars End

Roy Licklider

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814765425.001.0001

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Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Cambodia -- all provide bloody evidence that civil wars continue to have a powerful impact on the international scene. Because they tear at the very fabric of a society and pit countryman against countryman, civil wars are often the most brutal and difficult to extinguish -- witness the American Revolution.
And yet, civil wars do inevitably end. England is no longer criss-crossed by warring armies representing York and Lancaster or King and Parliament. The French no longer kill one another over the divine right of kings. Argentines seem reconciled to living in a single state, rather than several. The ideologies of the Spanish Civil War now seem largely irrelevant. And the possibility of Southern secession is an issue long-buried in the American past.
The question then begs itself: how do people who have been killing one another with considerable enthusiasm and success come together to form a common government? How can individuals and factions work together, politically and economically, with others who have killed their friends, parents, children and lovers? How are armed societies disarmed? What effect does a total military victory have on a lasting peace? In sum, how are civil societies constructed from civil violence and chaos? This is the central concern of Stopping the Killing.
In this highly original and much needed volume, a distinguished group of experts on civil wars discuss both specific conflicts and broader theoretical issues. Individual chapters examine civil wars in Colombia, the Sudan, Yemen, America, Greece, and Nigeria, and analyze the causes of peace, the relationship between the battlefield and the negotiating table, and issues of settlement. An introduction and conclusion by the editor unify the volume. Contributors include: Jonathan Hartlyn (Univ. of North Carolina), Caroline Hartzell (Univ. of California, Davis), Jane E. Holl (U.S. Military Academy), John Iatrides (Southern Connecticut State University), James O'Connell (University of Bradford), Donald Rothchild (Univ. of California, Davis), Stephen John Stedman (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Robert Harrison Wagner (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Harvey Waterman (Rutgers Univ.), Manfred Wenner (Northern Illinois Univ.), and I. William Zartman (Johns Hopkins Univ.).

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Licklider Roy :

Roy Licklider is professor of political science at Rutgers University, and author of Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon and The Private Nuclear Strategists.

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A good primer on what will almost certainly be the major foreign policy problem of our time.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PART I. Introduction
ONE. How Civil Wars End: Questions and Methods Roy Licklider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
TWO. The Unfinished Agenda: Negotiating Internal Conflicts I. William Zartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
PART II. Cases
THREE. Civil Violence and Conflict Resolution: The Case of Colombia Jonathan Hartlyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
FOUR. The Peace Process in the Sudan, 1971-1972 Donald Rothchild and Caroline Hartzell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
FIVE. The Civil War in Yemen, 1962-1970 Manfred W. Wenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
SIX. The End of the Zimbabwean Civil War Stephen John Stedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
SEVEN. The End of the American Civil War Stephen John Stedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
EIGHT. The Ending of the Nigerian Civil War: Victory, Defeat, and the Changing of Coalitions James O’Connell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
NINE. The Doomed Revolution: Communist Insurgency in Postwar Greece John O. Iatrides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
PART III. Theoretical Issues and Problems
TEN. The Causes of Peace Robert Harrison Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
ELEVEN. When War Doesn't Work: Understanding the Relationship between the Battlefield and the Negotiating Table Jane E. Holl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
TWELVE. Political Order and the "Settlement'' of Civil Wars Harvey Waterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
THIRTEEN. What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here? Roy Licklider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: May 1, 1993
ISBN: 9780814765425