Crafting Peace Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States
by Lezhnev, Sasha; Prendergast , JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-08
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Crafting Peace analyzes warlords in depth, including their organizational structure and the context in which they operate, ultimately exploring the effectiveness of various short and long-term strategies to deal with warlords. Instead of focusing strictly on economic causes, the focus here is on the extremely frail political/security environment that allows warlords to rise up, seize power, and profit in the midst of chaos. This deeper political context, under-analyzed in other texts in terms of its effect on warlordism, is crucial to understanding both why warlords arise and how they should be dealt with.
Author Biography
Sasha Lezhnev is Policy Advisor at Global Witness
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| The Globalized Gangster: Defining Warlordism | p. 1 |
| Defining Warlords | p. 1 |
| Warlord Organizations: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Structure | p. 12 |
| Warlords from History | p. 15 |
| Warlords and Globalization | p. 17 |
| Sierra Leone: The Long Road to Peace | p. 25 |
| The Dynamics of Warlord Conflict in a Failing State | p. 26 |
| Unseating the Warlords | p. 32 |
| Conclusion | p. 43 |
| Tajikistan: Warlords Reintegrated? | p. 51 |
| Ethno-Regional Warlordism and Frail Political Institutions | p. 53 |
| Warlordism During and After the Civil War | p. 57 |
| Dealing with the Commanders | p. 60 |
| Conclusion | p. 66 |
| Dealing with Warlords | p. 73 |
| Strategies of Coercion | p. 75 |
| Transforming Political Incentives | p. 83 |
| Conclusion | p. 93 |
| Chronology of Events and Key Developments in Sierra Leone | p. 97 |
| Chronology of Events and Key Developments in Tajikistan | p. 101 |
| Bibliography | p. 103 |
| Index | p. 115 |
| About the Author | p. 119 |
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