Bridging Elite and Grassroots Initiatives: The Road to Sustainable Peace in Syria

Conclusion: “I Hope It Wasn’t All a Waste”

10.1093/oso/9780190095574.003.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 319-336

Author(s):

James Waller

Keyword(s):

Northern Ireland ◽

Good Friday ◽

The Road ◽

Sustainable Peace ◽

New Beginning ◽

Good Friday Agreement

As we have seen throughout history, the road to a sustainable peace is a long and winding one, rife with potholes and perils. So, in a comparative sense, Northern Ireland deserves credit that the Good Friday Agreement, despite rewarding separateness over integration, has held for more than 20 years. Yet it seems there is a dangerous trajectory in contemporary Northern Ireland that has regional, global, and, most importantly, human implications for how we understand the transitions a society goes through in moving from conflict to a stable, enduring, and sustainable peace. More than two decades after the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland finds itself in a shallow, troubled sleep, and its future, moving more quickly each day, is trending in a darker and more dangerous direction. How it awakes from that troubled sleep will determine whether it is on the edge of a new beginning or a painfully familiar old precipice.

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Peace in Lebanon and the Middle East

Contemporary Arab Affairs ◽

10.1080/17550910802015766 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 149-155

Author(s):

Salim El Hoss

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Middle East ◽

Final Analysis ◽

Full Scale ◽

Conventional Wisdom ◽

Current Crisis ◽

The Road ◽

The Core ◽

Road Map ◽

Sustainable Peace

Lebanon has never experienced an extended interval of sustainable peace since its independence. In 1975, Lebanon was the scene of a civil war. In 1982, a full-scale war was mounted by Israel. In the process massacres were perpetrated by the Israelis. The current crisis has been punctuated by momentous tragic events which brought salient changes in the sordid course of life in the country, unleashing a prolonged cabinet crisis, and finally an intricate, highly critical discord over the election of a new president. It was no accident that so many spots of tension are boiling at the same time in the Middle East in Lebanon, in Palestine, in Iraq, and in Sudan. The conventional wisdom is that, in the final analysis, Palestine lies at the core of all the mayhem. The linkage between the repeated Lebanese crises and the Palestinian issue is only too obvious. The proclivity of Arab officialdom is to negotiate within the context of what is known as the Arab initiative. The Euro–American declared position is that any negotiations should be conducted in accordance with the Road Map sponsored by the Quartet. Both initiatives leave a lot to be desired.

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Quakerism: A Quest for Peace in the Road from Elephant Pass

Tribhuvan University Journal ◽

10.3126/tuj.v32i1.24788 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 215-226

Author(s):

Badri Prasad Pokharel ◽

Paras Adhikari

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

20Th Century ◽

Human Mind ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Positive Thinking ◽

The Road ◽

Sustainable Peace ◽

The World ◽

Different Parts

The 20th century ended very cruelly in different parts of the world with huge mass of massacres, blood shedding and terrorism which subsequently deteriorate human mind and people who were destined to live in terror, skepticism, and ultimately lack of belief not only in others but in self too. The intensive integration of sustainable peace has been preoccupied, but pragmatically such words remain in rhetoric. Quakerism with the inception of Quakers, a group of friends aligned with positive thinking for the conflict hit society, has embarked the contemporary war ridden society for human betterments, equality, progress and ultimately belief along with the inclination of happy and prosperous meme. Nihal de Silva, a Sri Lankan novelist best known for writing about the civil war that panicked the land for more than three decades has been remembered for bringing the trauma and anticipation of pacification in his works. His best and ever known novel The Road from Elephant Pass is analyzed and interpreted as a commencement of human betterment and sustainable peace in the long war ridden peninsula.

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Post-Gaddafi Libya and the African Union: Challenges and the Road to Sustainable Peace

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/0021909615583366 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 271-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Mediel Hove

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

United Nations Security Council ◽

African Union ◽

The Road ◽

Active Involvement ◽

Sustainable Peace ◽

Resolution 1973 ◽

The Arab Spring

The overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt by revolutionary demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2011 inspired Libyans to depose the Gaddafi regime. The heavy handedness of Gaddafi attracted the intervention of the West and the United States under the emblem of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. The article argues that instead of effecting regime change, the demonstrations whose epicentre was Benghazi culminated in a deeply contested civil war. This was caused partly by the United States of America and its allies’ active involvement at the expense of the African Union and its member states.

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Seeking to uncover biology's chemical roots

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 435-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Addy Pross

Keyword(s):

Environmental Changes ◽

Biological Systems ◽

Significant Development ◽

The Road ◽

Physical Chemical ◽

Systems Chemistry ◽

Biological World ◽

Inanimate Matter ◽

The Origin Of Life ◽

Opening Up

Despite the considerable advances in molecular biology over the past several decades, the nature of the physical–chemical process by which inanimate matter become transformed into simplest life remains elusive. In this review, we describe recent advances in a relatively new area of chemistry, systems chemistry, which attempts to uncover the physical–chemical principles underlying that remarkable transformation. A significant development has been the discovery that within the space of chemical potentiality there exists a largely unexplored kinetic domain which could be termed dynamic kinetic chemistry. Our analysis suggests that all biological systems and associated sub-systems belong to this distinct domain, thereby facilitating the placement of biological systems within a coherent physical/chemical framework. That discovery offers new insights into the origin of life process, as well as opening the door toward the preparation of active materials able to self-heal, adapt to environmental changes, even communicate, mimicking what transpires routinely in the biological world. The road to simplest proto-life appears to be opening up.

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