effects in many cases, yet more often they become active for peace. Religious identities and ideas seem to have a particular … ; ambivalence ; civil war ; violent conflict …

The termination of war is mostly seen as a basis not just for recovery but for a fundamental transformation or change … in development paths towards peace, stability and development. The Central American peace processes of the last decades … were one of the first laboratories for the liberal peace-building paradigm which assumes that the threefold transformation …

literary analysis enable the author to draw conclusions concerning the way in which both societies deal with urban post-war …

International conflicts over natural resources are frequently cited as the most prominent threat to global peace in the …

, especially for post-war societies: continuity and change of social control mechanisms. The paper first presents the current … Guatemalan state sourced out policing functions to the private sector during the war, and traces the reinforcement of these … mechanisms in the post-war society. It argues that the proliferation of private security services is an outcome of the …