Global Dynamics Of Peacebuilding

Peace refers to a state of communal friendship and harmony that exists in the absence of violence and animosity. Peacebuilding is a lengthy process that involves reshaping institutions, encouraging communication among people or entities, and mending relationships. It tries to resolve injustice through peaceful solutions and change the structural conditions that lead to conflict. Peacebuilding becomes strategic when it spans a long period of time and across all levels of society to form and maintain relations between people on a local as well as global scale. It entails a multifaceted set of approaches to lower the risk of a lapse or relapse into conflict by addressing both the causes and effects of conflict. Power-based work, compassion-based work, and rights-based work are the fundamental components of peacebuilding. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide an in-depth knowledge about the global dynamics of peacebuilding. Its extensive content provides the readers with a thorough understanding of the subject.

Peace and Conflict Studies is a vital resource in Political Science, exploring global peacebuilding and conflict resolution. In an interconnected world, understanding these dynamics is crucial. This book covers key theories and practices, from Johan Galtung's groundbreaking work to modern applications in peace journalism and environmental peacebuilding. 1-Foundations - Introduction to peace and conflict studies, exploring core concepts and methodologies. 2-Johan Galtung - Explore Galtung's theories on structural violence and peacebuilding. 3-PRIO - Investigate the Peace Research Institute Oslo's influence on global peace strategies. 4-Abdul Aziz Said - Delve into Said's work in interfaith dialogue and peacebuilding. 5-AU SIS - Discover the role of American University's School of International Service in shaping diplomats. 6-Peace Education - Analyze education's role in cultivating peace, from grassroots to formal systems. 7-Adam Curle - Reflect on Curle's pioneering efforts in humanizing conflict resolution. 8-Peace Journalism - Understand how peace journalism promotes non-violent solutions. 9-Peacebuilding - Explore the strategies and challenges of post-conflict peacebuilding. 10-Mari Fitzduff - Highlight Fitzduff's contributions to mediation and dialogue in peace studies. 11-An Agenda for Peace - Discuss Boutros-Ghali’s UN report on preventive diplomacy and peace strategies. 12-Mohammed Abu-Nimer - Examine Abu-Nimer's work in interfaith dialogue and Middle East peacebuilding. 13-Kristian Berg Harpviken - Analyze Harpviken’s research on humanitarian interventions. 14-Environmental Peacebuilding - Investigate how ecological efforts contribute to peace. 15-Janie Leatherman - Explore Leatherman's work on gender and peacebuilding. 16-Center for Justice and Peacebuilding - Highlight the center’s role in training leaders in conflict resolution. 17-Mats Berdal - Examine Berdal's research on post-conflict state-building. 18-Hizkias Assefa - Reflect on Assefa's contributions to peacebuilding in Africa. 19-Carter School - Discuss the impact of the Carter School on global peace education. 20-Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh - Analyze Tadjbakhsh’s work on humanitarian action and peace ethics. 21-Séverine Autesserre - Explore Autesserre’s advocacy for grassroots peacebuilding. This book is essential for professionals, students, and enthusiasts eager to deepen their understanding of global conflict dynamics. It offers unique insights and practical knowledge, making it a worthwhile investment in your intellectual journey.

Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence. This book presents nuanced and contextually specific knowledge of Sierra Leone’s political and war histories, and the outcomes of the implementation of programmes of post-conflict reforms. It embodies an analysis of the complex challenges involved in aligning international norms and values to local expectations and local priorities, and examines the role of local and global actors and structures in attempts to build a strong state and lasting peace. Using a theoretical framework informed by ‘liberal peace’ philosophy, as well as detailed and nuanced empirical evidence from the field, the book constructs a critical analysis of the contemporary global paradigm for building longer-term peace in war-torn, fractured and fragile societies. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, development studies, African politics, and IR/security studies.

This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet. Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. This volume develops the concept of ‘friction’ to better analyse the interplay between global ideas, actors, and practices, and their local counterparts. The chapters examine efforts undertaken to promote sustainable peace in a variety of locations, such as Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. These case analyses provide a nuanced understanding not simply of local processes, or of the hybrid or mixed agencies, ideas, and processes that are generated, but of the complex interactions that unfold between all of these elements in the context of peacebuilding intervention. The analyses demonstrate how the ambivalent relationship between global and local actors leads to unintended and sometimes counterproductive results of peacebuilding interventions. The approach of this book, with its focus on friction as a conceptual tool, advances the peacebuilding research agenda and adds to two ongoing debates in the peacebuilding field; the debate on hybridity, and the debate on local agency and local ownership. In analysing frictional encounters this volume prepares the ground for a better understanding of the mixed impact peace initiatives have on post-conflict societies. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, security studies, and international relations in general.

This book explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures help make global governance organizations accountable to local realities. Using rich ethnographic material from several countries, it will interest scholars, students, and policymakers.

Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners’ failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.

This updated and revised second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding contains cutting-edge analyses of contemporary attempts to reach and sustain peace. The book covers the main actors and dynamics of peacebuilding, as well as the main challenges that it faces, with accessible chapters. The volume is comprehensive, covering everything from the main international institutions for peacebuilding to the links between peacebuilding and climate change, or peacebuilding and trauma. It is also firmly interdisciplinary, with a number of chapters devoted to showcasing how different disciplines interpret peacebuilding and how they contribute to it. Bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners on peacebuilding, many from the Global South, the handbook offers a valuable “hands-on” perspective on how peace can be secured and sustained. There is a significant emphasis on comparison and the book shows how peacebuilding is best examined from the vantage point of multiple cases. The book is organised into six thematic sections: Part I: Architecture and Actors Part II: Reading Peacebuilding Part III: Issues and Approaches Part IV: Violence and Security Part V: Everyday Living Part VI: Disciplinary Approaches This book will be essential reading for students of peacebuilding, mediation and post-conflict reconstruction, and of great interest to students of statebuilding, intervention, civil wars, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

ECOWAS and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace-building testifies to the fact that we cannot talk of West African affairs, more so of conflict and peace-building, without talking about ECOWAS. For over two decades now, West Africa has remained one of Africas most conflict-ridden regions. It has been a theatre of some of the most atrocious brutalities in the modern world. It has, nonetheless, witnessed one of the most ambitious internal efforts towards finding regional solutions to conflicts through ECOWAS. The lead role of ECOMOG the ECOWAS peacekeeping force in search of peaceful solutions to civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Cote dIvoire has yielded a mix of successes and failures. In this book, the authors take a candid look at the role that ECOWAS has played and show how the sub-regional organisation has stabilised and created new conditions conducive to nation building in a number of cases. Conversely, the book shows that ECOWAS has aggravated, if not created, new tensions in yet other cases. The comparative advantage that ECOWAS has derived from these experiences is reflected in the various mechanisms, protocols and conventions that are now in place to ensure a more comprehensive conflict prevention framework. This book provides a nuanced analysis of the above issues and other dynamics of conflicts in the region. It also interrogates the roles played by ECOWAS and various other actors in the context of the complex interplay between natural resource governance, corruption, demography and the youth bulge, gender and the conflicting interests of national, regional and international players.

Ho-Won Jeong and a cast of experts explore the ways in which the dynamics of post-conflict situations can be transformed to sustainable peace. Contributors focus on designs and models of peacebuilding, functions of peacekeeping, capacity building through negotiations, reconciliation, the role of gender in social reconstruction, and policy coordination among different components of peacebuilding. The analysis illustrates past and current experiences of peacebuilding and suggests conceptual and policy approaches that can overcome the weaknesses of existing strategies.