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The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace
Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory...
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Understanding Peacebuilding
The UN has created a set of organizational structures under the broad heading of ‘peacebuilding’ that build support for rule of law and justice...
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Adaptive Peacebuilding A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through...
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The untold story of civil society organizations’ contribution to peacebuilding in Lesotho
Lesotho has been bedevilled by sporadic episodes of conflicts since the dawn of independence. Most conflicts revolved around an incumbent and...
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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...
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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,...
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Introduction: Toward Bespoke Peacebuilding
This introductory chapter briefly discusses the current debates on peacebuilding study, as well as some of the major turns in peacebuilding research...
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Introduction: Empirics for Peacebuilding
While the naïve optimism of the liberal peacebuilding perspective has been tempered by recent real-world events that have revealed the complex and...
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Conceptualizing Bespoke Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding contains multiple persistent challenges, from the systemic, cultural, regional, religious, and the political. While many actors are...
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China’s Peacebuilding in South Sudan: “Top-down” Adaptation and Its Effectiveness
This chapter examines whether, and if so how, Chinese peacebuilding actors adapted their peacebuilding approaches and practices in South Sudan and...
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Personal Peacebuilding and COVID-19
Personal peacebuilding is a form of nonviolent learning and action associated with self-knowledge, wellness, and positive encounter with others and...
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UNEP and Environmental Peacebuilding
This Chapter focuses on the different concept-building practices that have helped constitute environmental peacebuilding as an international concern....
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Towards the Peacebuilding Consensus
This chapter investigates the development of theory about conflict and peacemaking in the discipline of IR, through three generations of debates on...
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Peacebuilding Online Dialogue and Enabling Positive Peace
This study takes the work of transforming violence and conflict online and offers insight into the practice of dialogue in virtual settings for...
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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...
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Introduction: Civil Wars and Communicative Peacebuilding
This short introductory chapter defines civil wars as a persistent feature of the contemporary world. Though local in character, civil wars are...
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Exploring the Impact of Women’s Organisations in Peacebuilding in South Sudan: Post-independence Progress
Despite the grassroot breakthrough for South Sudanese women in peacebuilding, the unstructured interview carried out among women/women’s...
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Experiencing Adaptive Actions Within a Complex Peacebuilding Framework: The Colombian Case
The present chapter proposes a characterization of the adaptive peacebuilding approach based on the experiences of institutions and local communities...