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Introduction -- Part I. Transitional dilemmas, violent democracies and the United Nations' statecraft -- The transition from civil war to hybrid peace : 14 dilemmas of peace, democracy and state-building in post-conflict societies -- United Nations hybrid liberal peace dilemmas : contingent sovereignty, responsibility to protect and moral selectiveness -- From guns to votes to doves : violent transition with ballots and bullets -- What role do UN operations play in bringing simultaneously peace and democracy to post-civil war countries? -- Part II. Transitions to political, legal, civil and social orders -- From war to peace : when elections and political parties promote democracy? -- When the pen fails, the sword rules : constitution building and power-sharing for divided societies -- No justice, (no) peace? : democratic injustice or undemocratic justice in the name of human rights and reconciliation -- Silencing the guns through DDR and SSR : the securitization of peace or governance of insecure democracy -- From war to peace : voters but not yet citizens -- Part III. Conclusion and recommendations -- From hybrid democratic peace towards an integrated transition : conclusion, limitations and recommendations.

The Paris peace settlements following the First World War remain amongst the most controversial treaties in history. Bringing together leading international historians, this volume assesses the extent to which a new international order, combining old and new political forms, emerged from the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918. Taking account of new historiographical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of peacemaking after the First World War, it views the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the practice of international politics. The contributors address how a wide range of actors set out new ways of thinking about international order, established innovative institutions, and revolutionised the conduct of international relations. They illustrate the ways in which these innovations were merged with existing practices, institutions, and concepts to shape the international order that emerged out of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Introduction: the need for integrated approaches to peace and sustainability -- A state of art review of the peace-sustainability nexus -- Women's Movement towards Building Sustainable Peace in Cross-Cultural Society: the Case of Peace Agenda of Women in the Deep South of Thailand -- Boko Haram Insurgency on North-Eastern Nigeria, how has this influenced food insecurity in the region? -- Exploring the need for an Integrated Conflict Sensitivity Framework in development assistance that contributes to peaceful and sustainable post-conflict societies -- The Components of Peace Agreements and FDI Inflows in -- Post-Civil War Economies: a cross country analysis over the period 1990 to 2019 -- Peace through Community Building Efforts of the Rohingya in Bangladesh -- The Humane yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Refugees: A Potential Threat to Peace -- The Role of Media and Social Cohesion between Host and the Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar -- Human rights, social security and Ghana's response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- Non-adherence to principles of international law: The bane of environmental insecurity -- Peace, justice and security in Ghana: the need for peace education -- Co-benefits and synergies between food security and eight positive peace pillars -- Concluding remarks.

How is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in which local service delivery, local interactions and vertical relationships matter in building peace. Using the stories and experiences of municipal councillors, employees and civil society actors, it illustrates how local activities and agencies are performed and what it means for local peace in Lebanon. Through its analysis, the book illustrates what the practice of peacebuilding can look like at the local level and the wider lessons - both practical and theoretical - that can be drawn from it.

Für viele Deutsche war der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Anlass, diesen zweitgrößten Flächenstaat Europas erstmals als Akteur in der europäischen Geschichte wahrzunehmen. Doch für die Ukrainer ist dieser Konflikt nur der vorläufige Höhepunkt in einer langen Reihe von Versuchen, ihr Land als selbstständiges Staatswesen auf die Landkarte zu bringen. Anna Veronika Wendland entfaltet in diesem Buch, so kenntnisreich wie thesenstark, das gesamte Panorama der ukrainischen Geschichte von den Anfängen im mittelalterlichen Kyjiw über die frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbildungsversuche bis hin zu den katastrophalen Erfahrungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Kriege und Gewalt spielten in der immer wieder unterbrochenen Nationsbildung der Ukraine eine genauso prägende Rolle wie die friedlichen Phasen des Sich-Arrangierens mit den Nachbarn oder sogar des Profitierens von der Oberherrschaft des russländischen Imperiums oder der Sowjetunion. In diesem Wechselspiel entwickelten die Ukrainer ihre spezifischen Verfassungstraditionen und Freiheitsvorstellungen – und wurden so von einem Bauernvolk unter fremden Herren zu einer modernen, pluralistischen Industrienation, die sich heute ihrer Haut in einem Krieg gegen die Atommacht Russland erwehrt.

This book shows how creative methods involving stories and art can help educators to address the challenging topics of climate change and peace via new channels that inspire their learners and underline the role of each individual, with their specific talents and worldviews, in engaging with the crucial questions of this generation. Where climate change and human conflict meet, there is a particular potential for approaches beyond language and traditional classroom methods to offer students new channels of engagement. This book explains the reasons behind this and offers examples of such new channels in an inspirational resource for educators.

How do international organizations change? Many organizations expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations argues that they do so not only at the collective direction of member states. Advocacy is a crucial but overlooked source of change in international organizations. Different actors can advocate for change: national diplomats, international bureaucrats, external experts, or civil society activists. They can use one of three advocacy strategies: social pressure, persuasion, and 'authority talk'. The success of each strategy depends on the presence of favourable conditions related to characteristics of advocates, targets, issues, and context. Institutionalization of new issues in international organizations as a multi-stage process, often accompanied by contestation. This book demonstrates how the advocacy-focused framework explains the origins of three workstreams of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations: communication, protection, and reconstruction. The issue of strategic communications was promoted by UN officials through the strategy of persuasion. Protection of civilians emerged due to a partially successful social influence campaign by a coalition of elected Security Council members and a subsequent (and successful) persuasion efforts by Canada. Quick impact projects entered peacekeepers' practice as the result of 'authority talk' by an expert panel. The three issues illustrate the diversity of pathways to change in international organizations, representing the top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in pathways. Moreover, they have achieved different degrees of institutionalization in UN's policies, structures, and frameworks: protection of civilians is the most institutionalized, as evidenced by measures to hold peacekeepers accountable for non-implementation, while quick impact projects are the least institutionalized.

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition. Amid an armed conflict that has disproportionally affected and targeted the Nasa, as well as ongoing processes of dispossession and oppression, the Nasa have built a tradition of organised, peaceful resistance. This book examines the nature of their responses to mining and how this is linked to peacebuilding, with a focus on how resistance is shaped and enacted to respond to the relationship mineral extraction has with violence and peace. The work is exploratory, ethnographic and interdisciplinary in nature, sitting in the intersection between the anthropology of mining, development studies and peace and conflict studies. The author presents and analyses narratives, participant responses, and her own experiences to illustrate the context and interconnected processes shaping Nasa responses to mining during this transition period. The book will bring international readers closer to these intricate dynamics, where access is otherwise limited because of security, cultural, linguistic and other barriers. The book provides a novel perspective on post-conflict mining governance by focusing on the Nasa's active role in responding to mining in a post-agreement, transitional context. It highlights, and encourages engagement with, the often-overlooked role of morality in debates about nature and development.

This book presents a new approach for studying peace beyond the absence of war. As war ends, the varying nature of the peace that ensues has been the object of much debate. Through in-depth case studies, including Cyprus, Cambodia, South Africa, Abkhazia, Transnistria/Russia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Myanmar, the book illustrates how conceptualising 'relational peace' provides a framework that can be applied across cases and actors, different levels of analysis, a variety of geographical contexts and using different temporal perspectives and types of data. This novel framework enables improved empirical studies of peace. The book contributes nuanced understandings of peace in particular settings and demonstrates the multifaceted nature of peaceful relations - what is termed 'relational peace practices' - making important contributions to the field of studying peace beyond the absence of war.

Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) - as the only permanent international court that addresses crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes - has important potential to end impunity and find justice for victims of atrocities, it is dependent on others for almost all aspects of its functioning. The Court has frequently relied on the peacekeeping operations that the UN deploys in the field and, over the past two decades, UN peacekeepers have provided logistical assistance and security to Court investigators, shared large amounts of information, and have even been involved in the arrest of Court suspects. But their track record has been inconsistent: they have sometimes refused to take action against people accused of war crimes and have found it difficult to balance their impartiality with court prosecutions. Despite the empirical importance of this phenomenon, we know preciously little about the circumstances under which it occurs. In Assisting International Justice, Buitelaar reveals the conditions under which UN peacekeepers address impunity in their mission areas. He presents an original single-country case study of assistance provided by the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a plausibility probe of other peace operations in ICC situation countries. Relying on new empirical material, including over 130 interviews of key decision-makers, and comprehensive archival research, this scholarly volume explores how the UN navigates the terrain of conflict mediation and punitive accountability and demonstrates the collaborative but contingent relationship between the UN and the ICC

Die erneute Machtübernahme der Taliban am 15. August 2021, knapp 20 Jahre nachdem sie von den USA und ihren Verbündeten militärisch besiegt wurden und als geschlagen galten, zeigt überdeutlich, dass das Projekt des Aufbaus eines afghanischen Staatswesens nach westlichem Vorbild gescheitert ist. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Wo liegen die Weichenstellungen für dieses Ergebnis und was kann und muss für die Zukunft daraus gelernt werden?

Klappentext: Im Sommer 2021 verließen die NATO-Truppen nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Afghanistan. Am 15. August desselben Jahres übernahmen die Taliban die Macht. Seitdem wird über die Frage diskutiert, ob und inwiefern das internationale humanitäre, politische und militärische Engagement in Afghanistan gescheitert ist. Dieses Buch zieht Bilanz. Es versammelt Beiträge deutschsprachiger Sozial- und Rechtswissenschaftler:innen, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten über und in Afghanistan geforscht haben. Es stellt auf den Prüfstand, welches Wissen der Intervention zugrunde lag und welche Vorstellungen gegenwärtige Diskussionen über deren Scheitern prägen. Die Beiträge verdeutlichen, mit welch vielfältigen und oft widersprüchlichen Ansprüchen und Motivationen die Interventionsakteure agierten. Sie zeichnen nach, wie Afghaninnen und Afghanen die Entwicklungen erlebten. Und sie heben die Bedeutung der Afghanistan-Einsätze innerhalb der intervenierenden Gesellschaften hervor. So wird deutlich, dass die Frage nach der Bilanz vor allem eine Frage der Perspektive ist und das Vermächtnis der Intervention über deren militärisches Scheitern hinausgeht.