Theoretical Framework on Conflict Resolution Sample Clauses

Theoretical Framework on Conflict Resolution. Conflict Resolution (CR) is a relatively young but fast growing and one of the most interdisciplinary academic fields which begun to emerge in the 1950s. As a matter of fact, after the First World War in the United States and Europe proponents of peace undertook efforts to initiate institutions to promote peace which led to the establishment of the League of Nations which was included in the President Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx‟s 14 points. Although the League was weakened by the absence of the US as a member as well as by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it became as a precedent for strengthening of international institutions and prepared the groundwork for the establishment of the United Nations after the Second World War. (Xxxxxxxxx, 2008, pp. 17-18) In the post war period, efforts were undertaken by governments and nongovernmental institutions to prevent wars, xxxxxx reconciliation and promote cooperation in various fields by creating international institutions as the United Nations, UNESCO, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, European Coal and Steel Community which evolved into the present European Union. Concurrently, in this period, scholarly endeavours increased to establish research centres for CR. In this context, the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford, California played an important leading role with scholars like Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx, who contributed to this new emerging field. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx and von Xxxxxxxxxxx joined other scholars to initiate The Journal of Conflict Resolution in 1957 and established the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan. In Europe, the pioneers of such institutions have been the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway founded in 1959 with Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as Director, who also founded the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and in Sweden, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) set up in 1966 (Kriesberg, 2009, pp. 18-20). During the 1970s and 1980s, CR advanced considerably in becoming institutionalized in universities, government agencies and also in the nongovernmental circles which were increasing their influence in this period. After the end of the Cold War and the breaking up of the Soviet Union some of the protracted conflicts were settled by negotiated agreements, but also new ones erupted (Xxxxxxxxxxx, 1994). Post Cold War period witnessed an expansion and diffusi...
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