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Introduction: The view from below -- Below the surface -- Self-understandings versus power -- The dilemma of migration -- Sites for building bridges -- The plague of politics -- Implications for Eurasia

Gives an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict. Each of the chapters here analyzes the prospects for building a sustainable peace from a number of different perspectives, examining: the role of economic development, democratization, respect for human rights, and more.

A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11. Bringing together leading international scholars, this book presents the latest empirical research alongside detailed theoretical analysis. Examining the key questions local parties and the international community have encountered in Kosovo, including how to develop effective and inclusive local government, how to counter crime and the dys.

'Obgleich die Zustimmung der von einem Konflikt betroffenen Staaten und die Kooperationsbereitschaft ihrer Bevölkerungen wesentliche Voraussetzungen für eine erfolgreiche Friedenskonsolidierung sind, kann es im Rahmen des Peacebuilding durchaus erforderlich sein, unter Anwendung von Zwang in völkerrechtlich geschützte Rechtsgüter einzugreifen. Davon ist insbesondere auszugehen, wenn im Zuge des Konflikts politische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Strukturen bereits erheblich zersetzt oder im Wege einer militärischen Intervention gezielt beseitigt wurden. In solchen Eingriffssituationen muss Klarheit über die juristische Grundlage des Einschreitens, den Status der beteiligten Akteure und die Rechtsfolgen des Eingriffs herrschen. Die politische Relevanz dieser Fragen besteht vor allem in der Tatsache, dass nur ein völkerrechtsgemäßes Vorgehen konkreten Peacebuilding-Projekten die erforderliche Legitimität und Akzeptanz verleihen kann. Die völkerrechtlichen Voraussetzungen für den Umgang mit Staaten und Gesellschaften, die von einem Konflikt betroffen waren, erschließen sich jedoch nicht systematisch aus internationalen Verträgen. Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit dieses Defizit unter Rückgriff auf allgemeine völkerrechtliche Grundsätze kompensiert werden kann. Sie versucht insbesondere aus der Charta der Vereinten Nationen und dem Völkergewohnheitsrecht Elemente eines 'ius post bellum' abzuleiten, die den Handlungsspielraum im Rahmen der Friedenskonsolidierung zumindest in groben Umrissen vorgeben und den Beteiligten in der Nachkonfliktphase einen Mindeststandard an rechtlicher Sicherheit und Vorhersehbarkeit garantieren sollen.' (Autorenreferat)

Examines what external actors can do to help move a war-torn society in confict toward a stable peace. It is based on the premise that if external actors cannot figure out how to lay a foundation for a peace, there will be decreasing support for international intervention and peacekeeping missions

Examines what external actors can do to help move a war-torn society in confict toward a stable peace. It is based on the premise that if external actors cannot figure out how to lay a foundation for a peace, there will be decreasing support for international intervention and peacekeeping missions.

AbstractThis project explores the potential of image-making in augmented reality (AR) technologies as means of designing sustaining quality peace futures—unfuturing peace, focusing on Ukraine's heroic defense against Russia's 2022–2024 full-scale war of aggression as a case study. Employing the methodology of compositional interpretation and the conceptual tool "futures images," the project theoretically and practically differentiates between defuturing and unfuturing as peace design processes in developing an essay of originally designed marker-based Augmented Reality Posters in Support of Ukraine as demos of sustaining quality peace arrangements. The posters reference the topics of (physical) integrity of Ukrainian symbols, global food security and the security of the LGBTQI+ community in Ukraine. The technological artistic process/outcomes of this AR image-making experiment and their relation to power layouts in peacebuilding form the bases for theorizing how AR-supported futures design in war-affected communities—unfuturing peace—could facilitate "guerrilla peacebuilding." In outlining theoretical and practical premises of guerilla peacebuilding, the project intersects Augmented Reality Posters in Support of Ukraine with explorations of guerilla warfare and counterinsurgency efforts leading to the 2016 Havana Peace Agreements in Colombia as well as mobile technologies/power in guerrilla approaches to democratic development.

Environmental change and armed conflict are major challenges of the 21st century. Meanwhile, scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize the environment and natural resources as not only sources of conflict and violence but also as potential means for peacebuilding. While research on both fronts is rapidly progressing, the literature on the climate–conflict nexus and environmental peacebuilding has remained disconnected, although climate conflicts will (and already) require peacebuilding efforts. We address this gap by identifying overlaps that open opportunities for an integrated research agenda. Particularly, we call for a deeper exploration of the local dimensions of climate-related conflicts and environmental peacebuilding. Local actors, knowledge, networks, and identities shape peacebuilding outcomes and are key in building climate-resilient peace. However, romanticizing the local sphere might also mask significant inequalities, power differences, and ethical concerns.