Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
About the Book Series
This series publishes innovative research into the connections between insecurity and under-development in fragile states, and into situations of violence and insecurity more generally. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the study of a variety of issues, including the changing nature of contemporary armed violence (conflict), efforts to foster the conditions that prevent the outbreak or recurrence of such violence (development), and strategies to promote peaceful relations on the communal, societal and international level (peacebuilding).
Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism: A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace
1st Edition
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By Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto
July 31, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex drivers of violent extremism, along with recommendations for strengthening social and institutional resilience through peacebuilding and development efforts. By presenting a theoretical and empirical argument that places the emphasis on ...
The International Law of Peacebuilding: Engaging the Conflict Resolution and Peace Community
1st Edition
By Omar Grech
November 08, 2024
This book contributes to the debate on the international law of post-conflict peacebuilding and suggests a need for closer connections between practitioners and lawyers. The work argues that significant benefits accrue when lawyers and conflict/peace practitioners, and scholars work with each other...
New Paths and Policies towards Conflict Prevention: Chinese and Swiss Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Courtney J. Fung, Björn Gehrmann, Rachel F. Madenyika, Jason G. Tower
May 27, 2024
This book explores the discourse on conflict prevention and peacebuilding by bringing together researchers from China and Switzerland over a series policy dialogues. The Charter of the United Nations, adopted in the immediate aftermath of World War II, is clear about the fundamental necessity for ...
The Political Economy of Civil War and UN Peace Operations
1st Edition
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By Mats Berdal, Jake Sherman
March 31, 2023
This book examines the operational and political challenges facing UN peace operations deployed in countries where civil war and protracted violence have given rise to the complex and distinctive political economies of conflict. The volume explores the nature and impact of such political economies...
Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation: Peace, Space and Place
1st Edition
By Annika Bjorkdahl, Stefanie Kappler
October 18, 2018
This book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analysing the link between peace, space and place. By focusing on the case studies of Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and South Africa, the book provides a spatial reading of agency in peacebuilding contexts. It...
An Ethnographic Approach to Peacebuilding: Understanding Local Experiences in Transitional States
1st Edition
By Gearoid Millar
July 22, 2015
This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent years, too often evaluations assess projects ...
Controlling Small Arms: Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy
1st Edition
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By Peter Batchelor, Kai Michael Kenkel
December 19, 2013
This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem. The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political ...
Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Post-Conflict Consensus-Building
1st Edition
By Timothy Donais
November 08, 2013
This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In the context of post-conflict peacebuilding, the idea of local ownership is based upon the premise that no peace process is ...
Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding: Postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone
1st Edition
By Christine Cubitt
October 25, 2013
Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence. This book presents nuanced and contextually ...
Stabilization Operations, Security and Development: States of Fragility
1st Edition
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By Robert Muggah
July 19, 2013
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the new...
Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation: Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
1st Edition
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By Bruno Charbonneau, Genevieve Parent
June 21, 2013
This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding. After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The ...
The Peace In Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding
1st Edition
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By Astri Suhrke, Mats Berdal
July 03, 2012
This volume examines the causes and purposes of 'post-conflict' violence. The end of a war is generally expected to be followed by an end to collective violence, as the term ‘post-conflict’ that came into general usage in the 1990s signifies. In reality, however, various forms of deadly violence ...