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Bezig met laden... Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peacedoor Christopher Blattman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Blattman's theories are not terribly insightful. Unfortunately, organizing the book around these theories meant that the conflicts' analyses were fragmentary or incomplete. The book would really have benefited from more details, and a more comprehensive—instead of cherry-picked—analysis of at least some conflicts, preferably from Blattman's own expertise. > It turns out the planners in Lesotho—a mix of central government and foreign agencies—overlooked some important details. Not being able to sell cows was the whole point of buying them. Most Basotho men worked far away in South African mines. When they sent their money home, they didn’t want their wives to spend it, so they bought assets that were hard to liquidate. If you create a market for cows, you threaten their whole system of social control. The people with power (in this case, the migrant men) actively worked against the project. It failed spectacularly. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen-and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. Too many accounts of conflict forget this. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. That's because war is too costly to fight. Enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it or struggle over thin slices. So, in those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: what kept rivals from compromise? Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is not the norm; that there are only five reasons why conflict wins over compromise; and how peacemakers turn the tides through tinkering, not transformation. From warring states to street gangs, ethnic groups and religious sects to political factions, there are common dynamics to heed and lessons to learn. Along the way, we meet vainglorious European monarchs, African dictators, Indian mobs, Nazi pilots, British football hooligans, ancient Greeks, and fanatical Americans. What of remedies that shift incentives away from violence and get parties back to deal-making? Societies are surprisingly good at interrupting and ending violence when they want to-even the gangs of Medellin do it. Realistic and optimistic, this is book that lends new meaning to the old adage, "Give peace a chance.""-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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