UNU Update: from civil strife to civil society

	UNU Update
	The newsletter of United Nations University and its network of research and training centres and programmes
		Issue 24: March-April 2003

NEW TITLES FROM UNU PRESS

From Civil Strife to Civil Society:
Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States

In the 1990s, the United Nations, the militaries of key member states and NGOs became increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. As deliverers of humanitarian assistance or as agents of political, social, and civic reconstruction in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor, these actors have had to learn ways of interacting with each other to optimize benefits for the populations they seek to assist.

The challenges have proved daunting. Civil and military actors have different organizational cultures and operating procedures and are confronted with the need to work together to perform tasks to which different actors may attach quite different priorities.

From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States explores the nature of these challenges, blending the experience of scholars and practitioners. It is underpinned by an understanding that recovery from disruption is a laborious process that can easily be derailed.

The first section offers a rigorous examination of the dimensions of state disruption and the roles of the international community in responding to it. Other sections cover: military doctrine for dealing with disorder and humanitarian emergencies; mechanisms for ending violence and delivering justice in post-conflict times; the problems of rebuilding trust and promoting democracy; reconstitution of the rule of law; and the reestablishment of social and civil order.

Editors are William Maley, Associate Professor of Politics, University College, University of New South Wales, Charles Sampford, Foundation Professor of Law and head of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Brisbane, and Ramesh Thakur, head of the Peace and Governance Programme and Vice Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo. Contributors are William Maley, Charles Sampford, Ramesh Thakur, Amin Saikal, Paul F. Diehl, Simon Chesterman, David M. Malone, Thomas E. Seal, Frederick M. Burkle, Jr, Cees de Rover, Helen Durham, Reginald Austin, Mark Plunkett, Michael Kelly, Lorraine Elliot, Fiona Terry, Samuel M. Makinda, Adrien Whiddett, Martin P. Ganzglass, Sadako Ogata and Raimo Väyrynen.

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