{"product_id":"2940148581741","title":"CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE SAHEL: THE TUAREG INSURGENCY IN MALI","description":"Since 1990, the United States and other developed nations\u003cbr\u003ehave committed substantial diplomatic, economic, and military\u003cbr\u003eresources to resolve extreme intra-state conflicts. The world has\u003cbr\u003efound that the hatreds behind the conflicts often are very\u003cbr\u003edifficult to suppress—and even harder to dissipate. It also has\u003cbr\u003ediscovered that military interventions alone rarely attenuate\u003cbr\u003ethe underlying problems that provoked the violence. One result\u003cbr\u003ehas been a growing worldwide literature on mechanisms to\u003cbr\u003eanticipate intra-state conflict and on measures which may\u003cbr\u003epreclude the necessity for expensive military interventions.\u003cbr\u003eBut models and formulae are problematic in the analysis of\u003cbr\u003econflict. Human culture is so complex that it is difficult to\u003cbr\u003eidentify—let alone “control for”—all of the variables. History\u003cbr\u003erarely “reproduces the experiment.” The analyst often is left\u003cbr\u003ewith the sad role of explaining why problems of conflict were not\u003cbr\u003eforeseen, despite the best of resources and intentions. And\u003cbr\u003emilitary force continues to play a key role in intra-state conflict\u003cbr\u003eresolution, though often with less than satisfactory results.\u003cbr\u003eWhen a society faced with a situation of severe internal\u003cbr\u003econflict finds an internal solution which does not require outside\u003cbr\u003eintervention, that is of keen interest. If the society can do it in a\u003cbr\u003eway that preserves ongoing processes of political and economic\u003cbr\u003ereform, that is remarkable. If the society employs its military\u003cbr\u003eestablishment as a key instrument in its processes of national\u003cbr\u003ereconciliation, that achievement is worthy of serious study.\u003cbr\u003eIn this paper, Lieutenant Colonel Kalifa Keita describes how\u003cbr\u003ehis country—the Republic of Mali—did all of these. I can only\u003cbr\u003eecho his words, “truly, this is a story for our times.”","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072678772976,"sku":"2940148581741","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148581741_p0.jpg?v=1763711238","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148581741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}