Transforming the Aceh conflict: from military solutions to political agreement

Schulze, Kirsten E. ORCID: 0009-0000-9136-8115 (2014) Transforming the Aceh conflict: from military solutions to political agreement. In: Freedman, Amy L., (ed.) The Internationalization of Internal Conflicts: Threatening the State. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415507899

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Abstract

Internal security crises, from environmental disaster, extreme poverty and deprivation, armed conflicts, or ethnic or religious conflict, provide sites of opportunity for those seeking to internationalize conflicts. Domestic conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia have started as internal problems, but have taken on regional and international dimensions as parties to the conflict within the country and sympathetic external forces have joined forces with each other for mutual gain. This book examines the international dimension to internal conflicts and asks: under what conditions do domestic conflicts become opportunities for regional or global actors to become involved? Why have some countries been able to successfully deal with this problem while others have not? Who are the actors who seek to internationalize conflicts? Why and with what means do they become involved and how do their agendas get internalized/localized? Cases include: the separatist movements in the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Aceh (Indonesia); and the civil wars in Rwanda/Congo, and Sierra Leone/Liberia, Lebanon, and Iraq. This book finds that a combination of greater democratization internally, coupled with constructive outside mediation efforts, can produce conditions necessary to prevent conflicts from escalating or diffusing, and can facilitate peace-building.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	http://www.routledge.com/
Additional Information:	© 2013 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions:	International History
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2013 14:52
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 17:43
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51695

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