scholarly journals Introduction

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Boulding
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Research Association ◽  
International Peace ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
The Subject

The papers brought together here represent a part of the work of the IPRA (International Peace Research Association) Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building that met during the 1994 Conference of the International Peace Research Association at Malta to address the issues of peace building in crisis areas. The focus here is particularly on new approaches to peace building, including United Nations reform and civil society innovation. After fifty years of UN peace building efforts, it is clear that the UN cannot function effectively without the involvement of civil society in each conflict region. How the UN, member states and civil society can interact effectively is an important new question for the peace research community, and these papers offer some fresh thinking on the subject.

Articulating an alternative: the contribution of John Burton

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Research Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
George Mason University

Taken together, these four volumes comprise the Conflict Series, and represent the fruits of work completed by John Burton, with others, in the last years of his formal academic career in the United States, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, and at the Center for Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia. Burton has now ‘retired’ (though he still writes vigorously) to his native Australia, and that event, together with the appearance of these works, prompts this synoptic evaluation of them in the context of Burton's life and previous work. What makes this particularly interesting in the case of John Burton is that his career has been less than singular; first a civil servant, then a diplomat, then an academic, he moved from Australia, then to the United Kingdom and thence to the United States, with various stops along the way. Though he has written a great deal—books, articles and conference papers—and was a key participant in the organization of the peace research movement in the 1960s, especially the International Peace Research Association and the Conflict Research Society in the United Kingdom (and is described on the back cover of CRP as ‘the founder of the field of conflict resolution’), he was never a professor during his extended residence i n the United Kingdom at, first, University College, London, and then at the University of Kent, achieving that status only later, at George Mason University.

scholarly journals Reseña de Congreso: Una Nueva Normalidad es Posible y Necesaria. XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigación para la Paz, CLAIP 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
Esteban A. Ramos Muslera
Keyword(s):  
Research Association ◽  
International Peace ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
America Latina ◽  
La Red

Durante los pasados días 3, 4, 5, 6 y 7 de agosto de 2021 se celebró el XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigación para la Paz del Consejo Latinoamericano de Investigación para la Paz (CLAIP), por vez primera, en modalidad 100% Online y libre de costo para todo tipo de participantes. El evento fue co-organizado por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) a través del Área de Paz del Instituto Universitario en Democracia, Paz y Seguridad (IUDPAS) y por el Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). El desarrollo del congreso contó como entidades co-convocantes con la Revista Latinoamericana Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto (ReLaPaC), con el Instituto Pensamiento y Cultura en América Latina (IPECAL), con la Red Interuniversitaria por la Paz de Colombia (REDIPAZ), con el Grupo de Estudos de Paz e Segurança Mundial (GEPASM), y con el Centro de Estudios e Investigación para la paz (CEIP); y, asimismo, con el auspicio de la International Peace Research Association (IPRA) y de 68 instituciones, centros de estudio e investigación, Grupos de Trabajo CLACSO, redes académicas, movimientos y organizaciones sociales firmantes del Manifiesto por Una Nueva Normalidad (CLAIP, 2020), investigadores e investigadoras, artistas y activistas por la paz de América Latina.

scholarly journals Ending Corporate Anonymity: Beneficial Ownership, Sanctions Evasion, and What the United Nations Should Do About It

2021 ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Vineet Chandra
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Beneficial Ownership ◽  
Terrorism Financing ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Defense Studies

In the vast majority of jurisdictions around the world, there is a generous array of corporate forms available to persons and companies looking to do business. These entities come with varying degrees of regulation regarding how much information about the businesses’ principal owners must be disclosed at the time of registration and how much of that information is subsequently available to the public. There is little policy harmonization around the world on this matter. Dictators and despots have long taken advantage of this unintended identity shield to evade sanctions which target them; in July of 2019, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) published a comprehensive, investigative report into North Korea’s supply chain for luxury vehicles outlawed by U.N.S.C resolution 1718. C4ADS found eighty-two previously unreported shipments of 803 luxury vehicles – including two armored Mercedes limousines Kim Jong-Un was later pictured in – between 2015 and 2017 alone. At least twenty-four corporate entities, mostly based in China and Russia, participated in the process of covertly moving the cars to North Korea as guarantors, consignors, or consignees. Hugh Griffiths, Senior Researcher and Head of Countering Illicit Trafficking-Mechanism Assessment Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and coordinator for the U.N. panel convened to monitor North Korean sanctions compliance, summed up the significance of the problem succinctly. “If you can smuggle luxury limos into North Korea, which is done by shipping container,” he says, “that means you can smuggle in smaller components – dual-use items for ballistic and nuclear programs.” Deficient beneficial ownership protections around the world are not just the esoteric consequence of complicated legal systems; they present a significant threat to international peace and security as a vehicle for terrorism financing, sanctions evasion, and other forms of criminal activity. In six parts, this paper considers the development of beneficial ownership regulation since the 1990s, describes current efforts to harmonize jurisdiction-specific approaches, suggests more intensive involvement by the United Nations, establishes the legal basis for the use of the U.N. Security Council’s legislative powers on this issue, and argues that the United Nations is the international organization best-suited to drive towards universal, international compliance with the modern regulatory consensus.

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