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Peacebuilding aims to resolve conflicts by addressing the root causes. The mainstream theory of peacebuilding is the liberal approach, which has been successful in some regions but has also faced criticism and failures in others. In response to the need for new approaches to peacebuilding, China was under the spotlight as an emerging and active actor in conflict-affected areas, through economic assistance, UN peacekeeping contributions, and mediation efforts. So can China's practice bring stability and peace to the local communities? This book explores China's approach through the Developmental Peace framework, promoting sustainable peace through multi-dimensional development: economic growth, effective governance, and the human right to survival and development. Based on extensive interviews in China and conflict zones like South Sudan, the author demonstrates China's potential for achieving stability, though long-term observation is needed to ensure sustainable peace. Developmental Peace offers a comprehensive analysis of China's role in international peacebuilding, providing valuable insights into conflict resolution and sustainable peace.

In their PRIF Report the authors focus on the various forms of resistance to and backlash against gender equality and gender-sensitive human rights in peacebuilding processes. Based on 33 interviews with key stakeholders, they explore how peacebuilders understand and perceive resistance to and backlash against the realisation of gender-sensitive human rights in peacebuilding. The report also sheds light on the counter-measures and strategies used by peacebuilders. Finally, the authors discuss the impact of feminist foreign policy on gender-sensitive human rights in peacebuilding.

The paper examines the role of conflict-generated diasporas and their agency in state-sanctioned truth-seeking processes by asking how such a process impacts the diaspora community in the country of residence and what purpose the process serves the diaspora. It builds on the case study of the Colombian diaspora in Switzerland as the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-repetition (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición; CEV) from 2018-2022 was the first truth commission to officially have a mandate to include diaspora communities in their truth-seeking.

Der Ukraine-Kenner Winfried Schneider-Deters greift mit drei aktuellen Abhandlungen, verfasst im Kriegswinter 2022 / 2023 in Kyjiw, in die bundesdeutsche Debatte um Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine ein. Er erörtert kritisch die zwiespältige Aufnahme der russischen Aggression in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Aufrufe deutscher Intellektueller zur Einstellung der Waffenlieferungen sowie zu Verhandlungen und Kompromissen mit dem Aggressor sind faktisch Aufforderungen zur Kapitulation; deren Unterzeichner machen sich damit nach Auffassung des Autors zu Putins "nützlichen Idioten". Schneider-Deters zeigt die Parallelen zwischen Putin und Hitler auf und analysiert das russische "Weimar-Syndrom" nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion sowie die Wurzeln des gegenwärtigen, spezifisch russischen Faschismus, des "Rushism" (Russian fascism). Eingehend legt er die von Russlands Streitkräften in der Ukraine verübten völkerrechtlichen Verbrechen dar. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag ist für das Verbrechen der Aggression, das "supreme international crime", nicht zuständig; Schneider-Deters diskutiert die möglichen Schritte zur Schaffung eines neuen internationalen Tribunals in Anlehnung an die Nürnberger Prozesse, eines "Nürnberg II".

Chapter 1: Introduction: Ambiguities in Local and Global Contexts -- Part I: Complexity and Ambiguity -- Chapter 2: Approaching Complexity in Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 3: Tolerance of Ambiguity -- Part II: New Photographies and Visual Ambiguities -- Chapter 4: The Crisis of Photojournalism and the Emergence of New Photographies -- Chapter 5: Visual Ambiguities: Controlling the Meaning of Images in a Digital and Interactive World -- Part III: Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 6: Introducing Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 7: Navigating Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 8: The Grids: Architectural Space and Panel-to-Panel Transitions -- Chapter 9: Interactivity and the Author-Audience Relationship -- Part IV: Leveraging Ambiguity for Peace -- Chapter 10: Embracing Difference: Learning from Bosnia? -- Chapter 11: Exploring the Surround, Appreciating Complexity -- Chapter 12: Active Looking: Images in Peace Mediation -- Chapter 13: Concluding Reflections: Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Ambiguity of Tolerance.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Political Commemoration -- Chapter 2: Ius ad Memoriam: What is Deserving of Commemoration? -- Chapter 3: Ius in Memoria: How Should we Commemorate? -- Chapter 4: Commemoration as Path for Conflict Transformation -- Chapter 5: Applying the Framework and its Limitations -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Roadmap for the Paradigm.

Chapter 1. Africa and the Scourge of Conflict and Insecurity -- Chapter 2. African Conflict and the 'Post-colonial' State -- Chapter 3. Climate Change and Emerging Conflict between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nasarawa and Plateau States, Nigeria -- Chapter 4. Grassroots conflict over ecosystem services provided by the Inner Niger Delta: The case of Mali -- Chapter 5. Conflict, Police impunity and the governance question in Nigeria: Reflecting on the #EndSARS protest -- Chapter 6. Trapped in the Ivory Tower: Using social movement theory to analyse a 'movement in distress' -- Chapter 7. Terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa: Assessing its Economic and Social Implications -- Chapter 8. Violent Conflict in the Sahel: Causes, Dynamics, and Actors -- Chapter 9. The Resurgence of Military Coups in Africa: The Case of West Africa and the Sahel -- Chapter 10. Media and Election Disputes in Nigeria -- Chapter 11. Governance, Security and Development Nexus in Galkayo, Somalia: A New Approach to Explaining Somalia's Chronic Instability -- Chapter 12. Ceasefire arrangements as pre-conditions for independence in Southern Africa: implications for land conflicts in Zimbabwe and South Africa -- Chapter 13. The Security Sector in Zimbabwe's Diamond Governance (2006-2015) -- Chapter 14. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflicts in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and security -- Chapter 15. Somaliland's Plural Justice System and its Influence on Peacebuilding and Development -- Chapter 16. Exploring the impact of women's organizations in peacebuilding in South Sudan: Post-independence progress -- Chapter 17. Gender-based violence in South Africa: The second pandemic? -- Chapter 18. A Reflection on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria -- Chapter 19. Food security as a new frontier of war: A geo-historical perspective of food security and armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20. IGAD and the Quest for Economic and Security Regionalism -- Chapter 21. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflict in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and Security.

CHAPTER ONE: Cyprus, a Special Case -- CHAPTER TWO: Rethinking the "Cyprus Problem" -- CHAPTER THREE: "On-the-Ground" Perspective: Cyprus is a Perfect Example of a Negotiation Culture Inherent in Lengthy Peace Processes -- CHAPTER FOUR: Greek Cypriot Vassiliou and Turkish Cypriot Akinci Bridge the Cyprus Divide -- CHAPTER FIVE: Reflections and Conclusion.

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.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Innovations in African Research and Writing on Peace and Security -- Chapter 2: Inculcating the Peace Innovation Approach in Shaping the Future of Peace and Security in Africa -- Chapter 3: Community's Changing Social Structures as an Opportunity Rather than a Threat -- Chapter 4: Coping Mechanisms Employed by Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in the 2007/2008 Post-election Violence in Kenya -- Chapter 5: Transcending Inward Brokenness for Growth: A Determinant of Transformative Leadership -- Chapter 6: A Systematic Review on the Effects of PTSD Associated Alcohol Abuse on Social Economic Status Among Youth Living in Kiambu County, Kenya -- Chapter 7: The Nexus Between Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism: A Case of African Union Mission in Somalia -- Chapter 8: Cybersecurity and Online Child Trafficking in Africa: A Critique of the Legal Measures Adopted by African Countries.

1. The Future Trajectory of UN Peace Operations (Alexander Gilder, David Curran, Georgina Holmes and Fiifi Edu-Afful) -- Part 1 Reforming Security -- 2. Reforming Security Institutions: Implications of Local Actors' Incorporation on the Construction of Democratic Security Environments (Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Juliana Viggiano) -- 3. International Policing and/as the Future of UN Peace Operations (Charles T Hunt) -- Part 2 Resolving Conflict and Ensuring Protection -- 4. Attack Helicopters and Other Technologies for Enforcement in UN Peace Operations (Walter Dorn) -- 5. The Future Dynamics Between UN Stabilisation and UN Peace Operations: Conflict Management Versus Conflict Resolution (Shannon Zimmerman) -- 6. UNTSO: The Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East (Diego Salama) -- Part 3 Strengthening Partnerships -- 7. The Future Of United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) Cooperation On Peace And Security (Ruth Adwoa Frimpong) -- 8. The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (hifz al-salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation's Sustaining Peace Agenda (Mohammad Sabuj) -- 9. Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping (Dustin Johnson, Catherine Baillie Abidi, Laura Cleave, and Shelly Whitman) -- Part 4 Ensuring Future Accountability -- 10. Accountability for Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: Rethinking Relationships (Sabrina White) -- 11. Safeguarding from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peace Operations: Lessons for the Future (Sarah Blakemore, Rosa Freedman and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert) -- 12. An Alternative Approach: The African Union's 's SEA Regulatory Framework (Ai Kihara-Hunt and Roisin Burke).