"This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 major post-Cold War nation-building interventions. The authors assess the risk of renewed conflict at the onset of the interventions and subsequent progress along five dimensions: security, democratization, government effectiveness, economic growth, and human development. They find that transformation of many of the specific conditions that gave rise to or fueled conflict often is not feasible in the time frame of nation-building operations but that such transformation has not proven essential to achieving the primary goal of nation-building -- establishing peace. Most interventions in the past 25 years have led to enduring peace, as well as some degree of improvement in the other dimensions assessed. The findings suggest the importance of setting realistic expectations -- neither expecting nation-building operations to quickly lift countries out of poverty and create liberal democracies, nor being swayed by a negative stereotype of nation-building that does not recognize its signal achievements in the great majority of cases."--Page 4 of cover.

How I found peace after looking in all the wrong places. Was it handed to me on a platter...NO! Did I try 100 ways that didn't work, absolutely. This book is my journey of how I learned to accept the things I could not change, how I learned to change the things I can, and how I gained the wisdom to know the difference.

Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

Tiffeny L. Marsh's Overcoming Obstacles is a poignant story that illuminates her personal journey through seemingly overwhelming setbacks into a lovely place of hope and peace. Though life is often wrought with trials and tribulations, these obstacles do not have to define us or defeat us. They can actually become the very things that bring us into an awareness of God's extraordinary mercy and grace. If you have ever thought that defeat defines your future, give yourself the gift of reading this book. It will minister hope and encouragement, particularly to those who may feel alone amidst facing difficult and challenging life circumstances.

Have you ever lived in chaos? Perhaps, you are hiding a hermit mindset because your inner has many fears and stress. You aren't able out of them. Fear is the limiting factor stopping you from working toward what you want. Learning how to overcome fear is one of the most liberating pursuits you can undertake. The journey will be easier if you maintain your determination and consistency. Mastering fear and using it to live life fully while also developing your skills to help others. Together explore: - Greatest obstacles; - Brutal reality; - Standing on the edge; - Stronger than before; - Lost and struggling; - The personal brand; - Restoring hope within; - Finding peace; - Bonus chapter! Developing limiting beliefs and acknowledging the fears, a path is for anyone who conquers life fully.

The Middle East road map : overcoming obstacles to peace : hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 15, 2003

The Middle East road map: overcoming obstacles to peace: hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 15, 2003

Gentle Lessons for a Recovering People Pleaser offers you remarkable, groundbreaking information; step-by-step instructions to identify life's purpose; and the tools to transform inner turmoil to the tranquility desired. A multitude of books are on the market to tell you what to do, but rarely do they give you specific steps on how to accomplish achieving peace in your life. This book offers both! People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Each has something to teach you, the calling to assist you, or the experience to give you guidance. Relationships offer life-long lessons to help you learn how to build a solid emotional foundation within. Your role is to identify and accept the lesson and then use what you have learned in all your relationships at home, work, or play. Few of us are aware of the repressed, unhealed emotional wounds we carry inside from childhood traumasa "even fewer are aware that these wounds create problems and pain within us daily. As long as these wounds are unrecognized and repressed, we see life through the emotional lens of a child. With McDowell's knowledge, you will be able to recognize and release the pain, heal the past, and begin to see life differently. Ali McDowell, R.N., MA, Hypnotherapist, Teacher, Spiritual/Life Coach, and Ordained Minister, has forty years of teaching and counseling experience. She has held successful workshops on her process as described in her new book. She is a two-time cancer survivor and the author of The Good News: It's Cancer. She is as inspiration to all who know her. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and her dog."

Hope I have never been so appauled, As to see an American child, Ripped from her parents arms, To be sent to another country, I would think they would just lose Hope. Do you know what happens when a child loses Hope? It cuts out all the Light.

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to end, because domestic obstacles to peace become institutionalized over time. Next, it tests this theory with a mixed methods approach—through historical case studies and quantitative statistical analysis. Finally, it applies the theory to an in-depth analysis of the ending of the Korean War. By analyzing the domestic politics of the war's major combatants—the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and North and South Korea—it explains why the final armistice terms accepted in July 1953 were little different from those proposed at the start of negotiations in July 1951, some 294,000 additional battle-deaths later.