Peace or democracy?: peacebuilding dilemmas to transition from civil wars

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- List of peace operations -- List of illustrations -- Glossary of abbreviations and technical terms -- About the author -- Introduction -- I.1 Concept foundations -- I.2 The objective -- I.3 Justification: why do peacebuilding, democratization, civil wars, and fragile states matter? -- I.4 A note on global peace data: is the world becoming more or less peaceful? -- I.5 A note on postwar democratization: democratic peace theory and sequential transition models -- I.6 Book structure -- I.7 Methodology: research design -- I.8 Definitions: what are we talking about? -- I.9 Overview of the chapters -- Notes -- References -- Part I Transitional dilemmas, violent democracies, and the United Nations's statecraft -- Chapter 1 The transition from civil war to hybrid peace: 14 dilemmas of peace, democracy, and state-building in post-conflict societies -- 1.1 Transition from hybrid war to hybrid liberal peace: background approach -- 1.2 Theoretical foundation: transitional dilemmas -- 1.3 Dilemmas and trade-offs between efforts to promote peace or democracy: an advanced approach -- 1.4 Premises of the Philosophical-Actors-Tactical (P-A-T) framework of transitional post-conflict and peacebuilding dilemmas: its properties and limitations -- 1.5 Summary of the chapter -- References -- Chapter 2 United Nations hybrid liberal peace dilemmas: Contingent sovereignty, responsibility to protect and moral selectiveness -- 2.1 United Nations's statecraft: "benign" autocracy versus autonomy -- 2.2 Westphalia versus post-Westphalia peace: legality, legitimacy, sovereignty, and R2P -- 2.3 Who deserves to be free and safe? Selectiveness, efficiency, and other dilemmas -- 2.4 Summary of the chapter -- Note -- References.

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.

"Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war, Pereira Watts argues they are in fact at a crossroads. Offering an innovative framework, based on Philosophical, Actors and Tactical considerations, Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding, with respective trade-offs. She focuses on explaining the contradictions in modern post-conflict recovery, the challenges facing interim governments, and the role of the international community. Based on an analysis of more than 40 countries between 1989 and 2022 and more than 60 UN Peace Operations, she presents key issues that commonly need to be addressed in such scenarios: Elections and Political Parties; The Constitution; Checks, Balances and Power-sharing; Transitional Justice; Human Rights, Amnesty, Truth Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals; Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration; and Media Reform and Civil Society. Solving any of these dilemmas leads to others that shape a complex apparatus for restoring peace and installing a new political regime. An essential resource for decision-takers, policymakers, international analysts and practitioners in the field of peacebuilding, that will also be of great value to students of International Relations and Peace Studies as well as anyone interested in peacekeeping, democracy building and state-building"--