The Walls Between Conflict and Peace 1st Edition by Alberto Gasparini ISBN 9004272844 9789004272842

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ISBN 10: 9004272844 
ISBN 13: 9789004272842
Author: Alberto Gasparini

The Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and political societies, national and supranational societies. Such changes occur because over time cooperation between populations produces an active quest for peace, which is therefore a peace in constant movement. These are the concepts and lines of political development analysed in the book.

The first part of the book deals with political walls and how they evolve into borders, or even disappear. The second part discusses possible and actual walls between empires, and also walls which may take shape within present-day empires. The third part analyses various ways of being of walls between and within states: Berlin, the Vatican State and Italy, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, Belfast, Northern European Countries, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the USA and Mexico. In addition, discussion centres on a possible new Iron Curtain between the two Mediterranean shores and new and different walls within the EU. The last part of the book looks at how walls and borders change as a result of cooperation between the communities on either side of them.

The book takes on particular relevance in the present circumstances of the proliferation of walls between empires and states and within single states, but it also analyses processes of conflict and peace which come about as a result of walls.

The Walls Between Conflict and Peace 1st Table of contents:

• Part 1: Walls Dividing, Walls Uniting

  • Walls Dividing, Walls Uniting: Peace in Fusion, Peace in Separation
    • By Alberto Gasparini
    • This chapter delves into the paradox of walls that can both separate and, in a complex way, facilitate certain forms of peace or interaction.

• Part 2: Macro Walls and Macro Networks

  • Why Empires Build Walls: The New Iron Curtain Between Africa and Europe
    • By Max Haller
    • This chapter examines the motivations behind the construction of large-scale geopolitical barriers, particularly focusing on the “new iron curtain” between the continents.
  • The Enlargement Process and the “Dividing Lines of Europe”
    • By Melania-Gabriela Ciot
    • This contribution analyzes how processes like the enlargement of the European Union have inadvertently created new divisions or solidified existing ones.
  • Are Walls a National Security Issue? A View from the United States-Mexican Border
    • By Dennis Soden and Alejandro Palma
    • This chapter provides a case study of the U.S.-Mexico border, discussing the arguments for and against walls as tools of national security.

• Part 3: State, Security and Ethnic-Political Walls

  • The Berlin Wall
    • By Anneli Ute Gabanyi
    • A historical case study of the iconic Berlin Wall, its rise, impact, and eventual fall.
  • Vatican City-Italy Wall: Consolidating Social and Political Peace
    • By Domenico Mogavero
    • This chapter explores a unique “wall” that functions to consolidate rather than divide, examining the relationship between Vatican City and Italy.
  • The “Crossings” Along the Divide: The Cypriot Experience
    • By Maria Hadjipavlou
    • An analysis of the Green Line in Cyprus and the dynamics of crossings and interactions across this dividing wall.
  • Israel-Palestine: Concrete Fences and Fluid Borders
    • By Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti
    • This chapter delves into the complex and often paradoxical nature of the walls and borders between Israel and Palestine.
  • Ordinary Everyday Walls: Normalising Exception in Segregated Belfast
    • By Hastings Donnan and Neil Jarman
    • This contribution examines the “peace walls” in Belfast and how they have become integrated into the everyday lives of residents, normalizing a state of exception.

• Part 4: What Happens After the Wall?

  • European Twin Cities: Models, Examples and Problems of Formal and Informal Co-operation
    • By Thomas Lundén
    • This chapter explores cities divided by historical or political lines that have subsequently developed forms of cooperation.
  • Scenario for the New Town of Gorizia/Gorica
    • By Alberto Gasparini
    • A specific case study and forward-looking analysis of the twin city of Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), which were once divided by a border.

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