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Crafting Peace analyzes warlords in depth, including their organizational .

Crafting Peace analyzes warlords in depth, including their organizational structure and the context in which they operate, ultimately exploring the effectiveness of various short and long-term strategies to deal with warlords. Sasha Lezhnev discusses this approach by looking at real-world cases in Sierra Leone and Tajikistan.

John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs . Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States. Co-authored by Sasha Lezhnev. Lexington Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7391-1765-1

John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council  . ISBN 978-0-7391-1765-1. Not On Our Watch : The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. Co-authored with Don Cheadle.

State-building policies involve undermining the power of warlords by supporting alternative sources of authority; promoting . Citation: Iavor Rangelov.

State-building policies involve undermining the power of warlords by supporting alternative sources of authority; promoting democratization; fostering economics reconstruction and employment; and, as a last resort, conducting structured peace negotiations that may provide for warlord reintegration. The study is driven by a problem-solving imperative and moves swiftly from empirical analysis to policy recommendations. This sleek structure, however, comes at a price.

Sasha Lezhnev, John Prendergast. Crafting Peace analyzes warlords in depth, including their organizational structure and the context in which they operate, ultimately exploring the effectiveness of various short and long-term strategies to deal with warlords. Instead of focusing strictly on economic causes, the focus here is on the extremely frail politial/security environment that allows warlords to rise up, seize power, and profit in the midst of chaos.

Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States, by Sasha Lezhnev, John Prendergast, published by Lexington Books, 2006 ISBN 978-0-7391-1765-1. Blood and Soil: Land, Politics and Conflict Prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa, by John Prendergast, published by International Crisis Group, 2004 ISBN 978-760853-0-0. God, Oil & Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan, principal author, John Prendergast, published by International Crisis Group, (Africa Report, 39), January 28, 2002 ASIN: B000FPCBP.

Early peace efforts in Sierra Leone were unsuccessful, noted Lezhnev. An attempt at peace accords in 1999 that brought members of the RUF into the government only served to entrench the warlords and increase their power. There are two main approaches to dealing with warlords: forcefully dealing with them in the short-run, and reconstructing their political security environment around them over the long-term," concluded Lezhnev.

John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs at. .Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States, by Sasha Lezhnev, John Prendergast, published by Lexington Books, 2006.

John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. He is the Founding Director of the Enough Project, a nonprofit human rights organization, and co-founder with George Clooney of The Sentry. Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast, published by Hyperion, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4013-0335-8.

Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States. Published August 28, 2006 by Lexington Books.

John Prendergast (born March 21, 1963) is an American human rights activist, author, and former Director for African .

John Prendergast (born March 21, 1963) is an American human rights activist, author, and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. He is the Founding Director of the Enough Project, a nonprofit human rights organization affiliated with the Center for American Progress. Blood and Soil: Land, Politics and Conflict Prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa, by John Prendergast, published by International Crisis Group, 2004.