Numerous empirical studies have examined the role of third-party peacekeeping in reducing
violence around the world. Their results reveal an extraordinary relationship between …

This introductory article explores the multiple synergies between international practice
theory and diplomatic studies. The timing for this cross-fertilizing exchange could not be …

An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.
In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peace-or how individuals …

In political scientists' drive to examine causal mechanisms, qualitative expert interviews
have an important role to play. This is particularly true for the analysis of complex decision …

One likely effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be an increased focus on health diplomacy,
a topic that has rarely been taken up by international relations scholars. After reviewing …

In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others.
Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the'international pecking …

This article is a conceptual scoping of the notion and practice of everyday peace, or the
methods that individuals and groups use to navigate their way through life in deeply divided …

This article undertakes a critical assessment of the local turn in critical peacebuilding
scholarship. It comes to the conclusion that the local turn is hampered by a binary and …

Humanitarian aid has long been dominated by a classical, Dunantist paradigm that was
based on the ethics of the humanitarian principles and centred on international …

Calls for a greater inclusion of local actors have featured for some time in debates on how to
make humanitarian action more efficient and address unequal power relations within the …