Adaptive Peacebuilding
A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria
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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 ...