Observatorio PSyD
El observatorio opina
16 de Marzo de 2018
Vanguardia de Ideas 16-03-2018
Isabel Adé Portero
Doctora en Historia Contemporánea
Robbie Gramer and Emili Tamkin, “Decades of U.S. Diplomacy with North Korea: a Timeline”, Foreign Policy Report, March 12, 2018.
“Trump's potential meeting with Kim Jong Un follows decades of mostly failed U.S. talks with the Hermit Kingdom.
President Donald Trump stunned the world, and even parts of his own administration, when he agreed last week to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks amid a high-wire nuclear standoff.
The meeting would be unprecedented: No sitting U.S. president has met a North Korean leader. But it would follow decades of tough diplomatic wrangling on North Korea by past administrations, where successes were fleeting and failure was common. […]
Experts are torn on whether a Trump-Kim meeting would help soothe tensions or just make things worse. Some think a summit would play right into Kim’s hands for a public relations coup, forcing Washington to treat Pyongyang as an equal.
But others welcome the development. “I would rather have summits and stability over fire and fury,” says Mintaro Oba, a former State Department official who worked on North Korean issues. […]
Trump has agreed to a historic meeting with Kim Jong Un, possibly by the end of May, though North Korea has yet to formally accept the offer. […]”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/12/a-timeline-of-u-s-negotiations-talks-with-north-korea-trump-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-nuclear-weapons-diplomacy-asia-security/
YOUSSEF MAHMOUD, LESLEY CONNOLLY, AND DELPHINE MECHOULAN (Eds.), Sustaining Peace in Practice: Building on What Works, International Peace Institute (IPI), February 2018
Abstract:
“Prevention is generally viewed as a crisis management tool to address the destructive dynamics of conflict. The sustaining peace agenda challenges this traditional understanding of preventive action by shifting the starting point of analysis to what is still working in society—the positive aspects of resilience—and building on these.
The goal of this volume is to build a shared understanding of what sustaining peace and prevention look like in practice at the national and international levels. Many of its chapters were previously published as issue briefs that fed into a series of monthly, high-level conversations convened at IPI in 2016 and 2017.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first part explores the concept of sustaining peace and what it means in practice. The second applies sustaining peace to five areas: the Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality, entrepreneurship, human rights, local governance, and preventing violent extremism. The third part looks at sustaining peace and the United Nations, specifically UN peace operations and regional political offices. The final part looks at a specific country—the Gambia—through the lens of sustaining peace.”
https://www.ipinst.org/2018/02/sustaining-peace-in-practice-building-on-what-works
“Trump's potential meeting with Kim Jong Un follows decades of mostly failed U.S. talks with the Hermit Kingdom.
President Donald Trump stunned the world, and even parts of his own administration, when he agreed last week to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks amid a high-wire nuclear standoff.
The meeting would be unprecedented: No sitting U.S. president has met a North Korean leader. But it would follow decades of tough diplomatic wrangling on North Korea by past administrations, where successes were fleeting and failure was common. […]
Experts are torn on whether a Trump-Kim meeting would help soothe tensions or just make things worse. Some think a summit would play right into Kim’s hands for a public relations coup, forcing Washington to treat Pyongyang as an equal.
But others welcome the development. “I would rather have summits and stability over fire and fury,” says Mintaro Oba, a former State Department official who worked on North Korean issues. […]
Trump has agreed to a historic meeting with Kim Jong Un, possibly by the end of May, though North Korea has yet to formally accept the offer. […]”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/12/a-timeline-of-u-s-negotiations-talks-with-north-korea-trump-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-nuclear-weapons-diplomacy-asia-security/
YOUSSEF MAHMOUD, LESLEY CONNOLLY, AND DELPHINE MECHOULAN (Eds.), Sustaining Peace in Practice: Building on What Works, International Peace Institute (IPI), February 2018
Abstract:
“Prevention is generally viewed as a crisis management tool to address the destructive dynamics of conflict. The sustaining peace agenda challenges this traditional understanding of preventive action by shifting the starting point of analysis to what is still working in society—the positive aspects of resilience—and building on these.
The goal of this volume is to build a shared understanding of what sustaining peace and prevention look like in practice at the national and international levels. Many of its chapters were previously published as issue briefs that fed into a series of monthly, high-level conversations convened at IPI in 2016 and 2017.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first part explores the concept of sustaining peace and what it means in practice. The second applies sustaining peace to five areas: the Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality, entrepreneurship, human rights, local governance, and preventing violent extremism. The third part looks at sustaining peace and the United Nations, specifically UN peace operations and regional political offices. The final part looks at a specific country—the Gambia—through the lens of sustaining peace.”
https://www.ipinst.org/2018/02/sustaining-peace-in-practice-building-on-what-works
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