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Peace-building situations can be described as battlefields of ideas where key international policy makers engage in internal battles for control over intervention policy. Knowledge production, based on timely information and analysis, is seen as crucial to winning these battles of ideas. By providing detailed information, analysis and recommendations, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has assumed an important role in this process. Yet we know little about the specific role the ICG plays in battles for intervention policy. This article investigates ICG analyses and recommendations and the way they fit into the specific internal debates within the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 2000-01. By looking at the work of the ICG in BiH around the elections in 2000, the article demonstrates that it often acted as a legitimising agent of US positions and policy in the country. Adapted from the source document.

Building a durable peace by means of external nationbuilding can be a cumbersome and uncertain exercise. The outcome often hinges on the attitudes of the local population and elites and their willingness to endorse the process. This article scrutinises the attitudes of the recipient population and political elites towards different aspects of the external nationbuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It addresses the problems of state identity, reconciliation and democratisation in an externally administered nationbuilding endeavour. The empirical findings from Bosnia and Herzegovina are used to illustrate the degree to which external nationbuilding can lay the infrastructure for a durable peace in the aftermath of ethnic war. Adapted from the source document.

1. Peacemaking and peacebuilding : two ends of a tail / Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kostic -- 2. American nation-building abroad : exceptional powers, broken promises and the making of 'Bosnia' / Roland Kostic -- 3. Reconstituting crisis : revisiting the Dayton and Rambouillet agreements and their impact in Kosovo / Jens Stilhoff Sorensen -- 4. The liberal trap : peacemaking and peacebuilding in Afghanistan after 9/11 / Florian Krampe -- 5. Sudan : the role of foreign involvement in the shaping and implementation of the Sudan comprehensive peace agreement / Øystein H. Rolandsen -- 6. The Ouagadougaou political accord / Camilla Elowson -- 7. Going it alone : the Casamance conflict and the challenges of internal peacemaking / Jannie Lilja and Mohamed Lamine Manga -- 8. An appraisal of the liberal peacebuilding exercise in Sierra Leone / Eldridge Vigil Adolfo -- 9. Rethinking peacemaking : peace at all costs? / Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kostic.

Many scholars argue that hostland social integration will encourage moderate political attitudes among diasporas. On the other hand, structural integration is thought to affect the opportunity structure of diasporas, but not their political attitudes. In this paper we offer an alternative explanation for the relationship between integration and diaspora attitudes. Our argument, based on findings in social psychology and social work, is that structural integration empowers diasporas to process and contextualize war-related experiences and make sense of daily life, and through the mechanism of a higher sense of coherence, enables them to envision a common future with other groups both in the host and homeland. We find support for our claims in a unique set of survey data collected amoung four diaspora populations in Sweden: structural integration encourages reconciliatory attitudes among diasporas, while social integration does not. Through their transnational engagement, structural integration of diasporas has the potential to encourage lasting peace in their homelands. ; Paper presented at "Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future," the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), 15-18 Feb, New York.

Liberal state- and nationbuilding fails to include into its framework of analysis environmental problems of post-conflict societies. Economic development projects such as large hydro projects or open cast mining for lignite, as an element of broader state-building exercise, lead to environmental stress for the communities, and can further exacerbate inter-communal incompatibilities. The case study of statebuilding in Kosovo is used to highlight the complexities of sustaining a peaceful post-conflict situation within the framework of existing peacebuilding model. Moreover, it emphasises that environmental and societal security requirements have to be addressed simultaneously to reduce the risk of reoccurring conflicts. The expectations is that by better understanding of the interaction between societal and environmental security, further valuable conclusion can be drawn about the capacity and limitations of prevailing models to build peace in the aftermath of civil wars.