By David J. Whittaker
Conflict and Reconciliation within the modern World provides a concise, unique and multi-faceted creation to the examine of recent clash occasions. utilizing 8 case- experiences, from 4 continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern eire, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it comprises dialogue on:
* threatened local peace and security
* cycles of inner discord, inhabitants displacement and violence
* controversy over motives, development and resolution
* the price of exterior mediation, enforcement or intervention akin to sanctions or ''punishments''
* skill, timing and permanence of reconciliation
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London took this to be an oblique reference to the evident wish of Greek Cypriots to attain a distinctive future for themselves free of dependence on a colonial guardian. Even more ominous in British eyes was the prospect that this might lead to union with Greece, in a union known as Enosis. The British response was prompt. They urged that in the light of the UN Charter Article 2 (7), which precludes UN intervention in the domestic jurisdiction of sovereign states, the matter of Cyprus should never be included on the agenda.
This is held to widen the gaps between rich and poor, and does little to heal fissures in society making for irreconcilability. Without farreaching social and economic changes in the post-apartheid society, black and white people are unlikely to be fully and permanently reconciled. 4 Cambodia Reconciliation after mayhem The conflicts in El Salvador and South Africa appear settled in that fighting is over, a new, popularly elected regime succeeds an autocratic one, and measures to promote reconciliation among former combatants have been put into place as a definite programme.
Sihanouk’s subjects, 10 million of them, generally displayed unpredictable loyalty, for there were significant Chinese and Vietnamese elements. Their attitudes swayed between monarchical respect and the resentful opposition of poor peasants and town dwellers. Turmoil erupted in 1970 when Sihanouk was overthrown in a military coup. A million terrified Cambodians fled their villages and sought refuge in tented camps thrown up around the cities. The void in Cambodian society was rapidly filled by an extreme leftwing insurrectionist group, the Khmer Rouge, whose guerrilla tactics gradually occupied more and more of the country.