Adaptive Peacebuilding
A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century
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Cedric de Coning
Political Science and International Relations
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Adaptive Peacebuilding: Leveraging the Context-specific and Participatory Dimensions of Self-sustainable Peace
In the context of the poor performance of many existing approaches to peacebuilding, the aim of this volume is to explore alternatives that may be potentially more effective. One alternative that has emerged p...
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Introduction. Exploring Alternative Approaches to Peacebuilding
Several developments disrupted an initial period of relative calm in the early twenty-first century, including the effects of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, major shifts in the geopolitical power balan...
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Conclusions. What Have We Learned About Adaptive Peacebuilding from Comparing Determined-Design with Context-Specific Peacebuilding Experiences?
After several decades of liberal peacebuilding implementation and considering the outcome of Western interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the ineffectiveness of liberal peacebuilding to prevent, mana...
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Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Contemporary and Future Armed Conflicts
Since the 1990s, mediation and conflict resolution have often been related to liberal peacebuilding interventions. A characteristic feature of this period is that the content of peace agreements typically reve...
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Adapting to Uncertainty: What Have We Learned from Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria
With more analysts, policymakers, and practitioners advocating for a new twenty-first-century approach to mediation, it is now increasingly recognized that old methods designed for inter-state disputes and sub...
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Adaptive Mediation
This chapter introduces the Adaptive Mediation approach, explains its roots in the study of complex adaptive systems, and addresses some of its key principles and characteristics. Adaptive Mediation encourages...
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Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria
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Hybridity, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Complexity
Complexity science provides us with a theoretical framework for understanding how complex social systems lapse into violent conflict, and how they can prevent, or recover from conflict. For a peace process to ...
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Africa and UN Peace Operations: Implications for the Future Role of Regional Organisations
Over the last decade and a half, Africa’s peace operations capacity has significantly increased. African states have deployed operations of their own and they now contribute half of all UN peacekeepers. The Af...
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UN Peace Operations and Changes in the Global Order: Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience
Changes in the global order are contributing to a more pragmatic era of UN peace operations. Peace operations are likely to become less intrusive and more supportive of locally-led solutions. Three overarching...
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Introduction: Why Examine Rising Powers’ Role in Peacebuilding?
Over the last decade, setbacks in places like Burundi, Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen have undercut the credibility that peacebuilding enjoyed in the international system. These failures have combined with a pu...
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Conclusion: Are Rising Powers Breaking the Peacebuilding Mold?
The concluding chapter analyzes the peacebuilding concepts, policies, and practices of five key rising powers—Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey. It finds that these countries’ approaches share...
