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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention -- Commodification, Compartmentalization, and Militarization of Peacebuilding -- Humanitarian Actors and the Politics of Preventive Action -- Praxis versus Policy -- Defining a Role for Civil Society -- Peacebuilding on the Ground -- Women and Gender Equality in Peacebuilding -- West Africa's Tragic Twins -- Peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa -- Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia -- Participatory Peacebuilding -- Sustainable Peace -- Prospects for the Emergence of a Global Small Arms Regime -- Cultures of Violence -- From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes centre stage. This collection presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools which promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts.

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Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances. The contributors investigate the causes and consequences, as well as the uses and abuses, of armed humanitarian intervention. One enduring concern is that such interventions are liable to be employed as a foreign policy instrument by powerful states pursuing geo-political interests. Some of the chapters interrogate how the presence of ulterior motives impact on the moral credentials of armed humanitarian intervention. Others shine a light on the potential adverse effects of such interventions, even where they are motivated primarily by humanitarian concern. The volume also tracks the evolution of the R2P norm, and draws attention to how it has evolved, for better or for worse, since UN member states unanimously accepted it over a decade ago. In some respects the norm has been distorted to yield prescriptions, and to impose constraints, fundamentally at odds with the spirit of the R2P idea. This gives us all the more reason to be cautious of unwarranted optimism about humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect.