Educating Conflict Management and Practicing Peacebuilding: The Case of Lebanon
Peer learning in higher education can help to align peacebuilding theory and practice, scholars and practitioners, thus putting research to work for sustainable peace.
Brexit and the Consequences for International Peacebuilding
The UK’s departure from the EU might arguably leave not only the UK but also the EU more inward-looking and less engaged in world affairs.
Studying Conflict and Practicing Peacebuilding
To overcome the ‘epistemological gap’ that reflects the limits of our current knowledge it is imperative for scholars to study war and peace together.
Feeling For the Game: How Emotions Shape Listening in Peacebuilding Partnerships
Interpreting emotions are not considered relevant to being a competent peace building practitioner, but paying attention to it helps us to listen and identify obstacles.
Why Understanding Religion Matters in Post-conflict Zones
Examining the doctrines of religious institutions can help understand their relation to the international community in times of conflict, peacebuilding and development.
Power-sharing in Africa: Does It Still Have a Role to Play?
Despite its bleak results, power-sharing should not yet be dismissed altogether because it still offers the most promising tool for dealing with deeply-divided places.
Review – Alternative and Bottom-Up Peace Indicators
While helpfully presenting the limitations of top-down evaluation and the challenges facing bottom-up approaches, this volume leaves the reader wanting a more comprehensive engagement.
The Effectiveness of Peacekeeping during Civil War
Research on cases of failure and success within and across peacekeeping operations should include the strengths of the quantitative approach and the power of ethnography.
Review – Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding
Cubitt’s analysis of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone offers a unique case study for the critical and empirical examination of liberal peace-making.
Review – Rethinking Peacebuilding
This book takes up the challenge of reframing both peacebuilding theory and practice to better address questions related to the relationship between peace and justice in contemporary peacebuilding.
