Overview
- First discussion of the conflict prevention dimension in the UN’s Agenda 2030
- Shows how conflict prevention can be enhanced at the UN and in regional organizations
- Indispensable for an understanding of the problems and challenges of conflict prevention in our times
- Eluciates the precedents of conflict prevention and how they might be enhanced in the future
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses the UN’s Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights. Many voices have already been raised, including that of the UN Secretary-General that the Sustainable Development Goals will not be met by 2030 unless there is a re-doubling of efforts. Still, on development as such, there is much striving.
The book puts the concept of preventive diplomacy into all of the issues of modern international relations, from the US/China confrontation to the various conflicts bedeviling Africa. It bridges the two worlds of the international relations specialist on the one hand and that of the academic interested in UN affairs on the other hand. There is normally little contact between those two specializations. The authors have taken several current issues to show how the millennium debates and the SDG targets are relevant to "realist school" conflicts, and that there is work under way to operationalize ideas and theories in this respect.
This is the first ever discussion of the conflict prevention dimension in the UN’s Agenda 2030 which seeks to advance sustainable development with a view to reinforcing peace and justice on the foundations of respect for universal human rights.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, a Barrister with degrees in philosophy, history and law, has been Chief Speechwriter to the UN Secretary-General, Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (Prevention, Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding), Director in the UN Department of Political Affairs, Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights, Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He wrote the first draft of Agenda for Peace and has published books on UN preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and human rights
Dr. Robin Ramcharan, Professor of International Relations (IR) at Webster University Thailand, with qualifications in International History, human rights, IR and International Law. He is also Executive Director of Asia Centre, a regional think tank and Director of the Research Institute on Preventive Diplomacy in ASEAN (RIPDA), both in Bangkok. He specializes in international security issues, especially traditional and non-traditional security in Southeast Asia. He has held teaching positions in in Canada, India, Switzerland and Thailand, notably at McGill University and the University of Toronto. He was also Professor at Alliance University, Bangalore, India, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and Visiting Researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He worked in international development cooperation at the World Intellectual Property Organization and in global problem solving at the World Economic Forum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conflict Prevention in the UN´s Agenda 2030
Book Subtitle: Development, Peace, Justice and Human Rights
Authors: Bertrand Ramcharan, Robin Ramcharan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36510-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36509-7Published: 28 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36512-7Published: 28 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36510-3Published: 27 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 149
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Diplomacy, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Conflict Studies