Resolving Conflicts

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The paper states that there are several proven ways and means of arriving at closure for policymakers who wish to resolve conflicts, through political, economic, and military tools. The paper reviews some of those strategies and points out why these approaches have become more difficult since the onset of the Cold War. The paper comments that John J. Hamre and Gordon R. Sullivan, writing in "The Washington Quarterly" point out that Afghanistan is an example of a "failed state" that truly needs post-conflict reconstruction politically and socially, not just militarily. The paper continues on the subject of the Taliban.

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"A second potential solution according to Hamre and Sullivan is to place a "quarantine" around the failed state. It is not an easy solution, because it entails massive transportation and communication resources, and any potential threats within the borders of the quarantined state must be monitored, intercepted, and those efforts require enormously expensive and risky operations on the part of the nation doing the blockade. Number three on the authors' list is to totally give up on the future viability of the failed state, and "carve it up" into pieces. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Textbook Chapter 8 "Post-War Reconstruction."Dixon, Robyn. (2007, Dec. 15). Zimbabwe may shatter, but Mugabe holds firm. The Los Angeles Times, p. A-1 - A-5.
• Foreign Policy. (2007). Failed States Index 2007. The Fund for Peace and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 54-62.
• Hamre, John J.; & Sullivan, Gordon R. (2002). Toward Postconflict Reconstruction. The Washington Quarterly, 25(4), 85-96.
• Kriesberg, Louis. (2007). Long Peace or Long War: A Conflict Resolution Perspective. Negotiation Journal, 23(2), 97-116.
• U.S. Department of State. (2003). A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

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