For international and domestic actors, post-conflict peacebuilding is one of the most difficult
policy arenas to understand and in which to operate. Environmental and natural resource …

This article will introduce the 'perpetual peacebuilding'paradigm. Academics and policy-
makers have accepted that the linearity of the liberal peace neither reflects, nor should it …

The frequent failure of international peace missions and the 'crisis of the liberal peace'led to
the promotion of a local or cultural turn in peace research and work that focuses on the role …

This article explores how the 'liberal democratic peace package'is received in post-conflict
spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raises critical questions …

This article examines how major powers conceive the role of the United Nations (UN) in
peacebuilding. We conceptualize the UN's role along the distinction between conflict …

Mary Anderson published her seminal book Do No Harm: How aid can support peace–or
war in 1999, which popularised the idea of conflict sensitivity in development, humanitarian …

Recent peacebuilding literature provides a sustained critique of externally designed conflict
management processes and promotes instead local mechanisms. Such mechanisms, it is …

Over the past 20 years scholars have repeatedly highlighted the complex relationship
between conflict, peace and economics. It is today accepted that economic factors at the …

The concept of friction is applied to challenge the assumption that the main goal of peace
support operations is to permanently stabilise a country. By exploring missions in Somalia …

Peacebuilding scholarship has not responded adequately to critiques of peacebuilding
practice. This failure results from two related problems; an implicit assumption of a …