Narayanan Ganesan is Professor of Southeast Asian politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan. His research focuses mainly on interstate and intrastate tensions and conflict in Southeast Asia, and his major recent edited works include State Violence in East Asia (with Sung Chull Kim), Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics and Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1.Open Roads to Peace and Democratization; Mónica Dias Chapter 2.Post-Nuclear / Post-Colonial Challenges to Democratization in the Pacific; Robert Jacobs Chapter 3.Democratization, Peace and the Differences betyween Asian and Western Approaches: The Case of Cambodia; Makiko Takemoto Chapter 4.Democratization and its impact on ethnic conflict and peace in Myanmar; Narayanan Ganesan Chapter 5.The peace process in Sri Lanka: The challenges for democracy after decades of civil conflict and terrorism; Raquel Duque Chapter 6.A democratic tradition as the background to armed conflict: The paradox of the Colombian case; Margarita Cuervo Chapter 7.The roads to reinvigorate the peace agreements: Between electorial and justice reforms in Guatemala; Jose Carlos Sanabria Chapter 8.The Angolan Process of Peace and Democratization: a case study; Raul Tati Chapter 9.Peace and conflict in Mozambique: A long Road to democracy; António L Fontes Ramos Chapter 10.Comparative Analysis of the Regional Security System of Europe and Asia: dilemmas of the Asian Security System; Gen Kikkawa Conclusion. Impact of democratization on civil conflict; Narayanan Ganesan

Narayanan Ganesan is Professor of Southeast Asian politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan. His research focuses mainly on interstate and intrastate tensions and conflict in Southeast Asia, and his major recent edited works include State Violence in East Asia (with Sung Chull Kim), Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics and Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1.Open Roads to Peace and Democratization; Mónica Dias Chapter 2.Post-Nuclear / Post-Colonial Challenges to Democratization in the Pacific; Robert Jacobs Chapter 3.Democratization, Peace and the Differences betyween Asian and Western Approaches: The Case of Cambodia; Makiko Takemoto Chapter 4.Democratization and its impact on ethnic conflict and peace in Myanmar; Narayanan Ganesan Chapter 5.The peace process in Sri Lanka: The challenges for democracy after decades of civil conflict and terrorism; Raquel Duque Chapter 6.A democratic tradition as the background to armed conflict: The paradox of the Colombian case; Margarita Cuervo Chapter 7.The roads to reinvigorate the peace agreements: Between electorial and justice reforms in Guatemala; Jose Carlos Sanabria Chapter 8.The Angolan Process of Peace and Democratization: a case study; Raul Tati Chapter 9.Peace and conflict in Mozambique: A long Road to democracy; António L Fontes Ramos Chapter 10.Comparative Analysis of the Regional Security System of Europe and Asia: dilemmas of the Asian Security System; Gen Kikkawa Conclusion. Impact of democratization on civil conflict; Narayanan Ganesan

Narayanan Ganesan is Professor of Southeast Asian politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan. His research focuses mainly on interstate and intrastate tensions and conflict in Southeast Asia, and his major recent edited works include State Violence in East Asia (with Sung Chull Kim), Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics and Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia.

• Chapter 1.Open Roads to Peace and Democratization; Mónica Dias Chapter 2.Post-Nuclear / Post-Colonial Challenges to Democratization in the Pacific; Robert Jacobs Chapter 3.Democratization, Peace and the Differences betyween Asian and Western Approaches: The Case of Cambodia; Makiko Takemoto Chapter 4.Democratization and its impact on ethnic conflict and peace in Myanmar; Narayanan Ganesan Chapter 5.The peace process in Sri Lanka: The challenges for democracy after decades of civil conflict and terrorism; Raquel Duque Chapter 6.A democratic tradition as the background to armed conflict: The paradox of the Colombian case; Margarita Cuervo Chapter 7.The roads to reinvigorate the peace agreements: Between electorial and justice reforms in Guatemala; Jose Carlos Sanabria Chapter 8.The Angolan Process of Peace and Democratization: a case study; Raul Tati Chapter 9.Peace and conflict in Mozambique: A long Road to democracy; António L Fontes Ramos Chapter 10.Comparative Analysis of the Regional Security System of Europe and Asia: dilemmas of the Asian Security System; Gen Kikkawa Conclusion. Impact of democratization on civil conflict; Narayanan Ganesan