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A Requiem for Peacebuilding?

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Editors:
  1. Jorg Kustermans

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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  2. Tom Sauer

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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  3. Barbara Segaert

    1. University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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  • Provides a much-needed analysis of peacebuilding
  • Discusses the ability of peacebuilding to survive its current crisis
  • Includes contributions from leading academics in the field

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Peacebuilding’s Predicament: A Dark Mood Among the Experts

    • Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Barbara Segaert
    Pages 1-14

  3. Why Peacebuilding Appears Moribund

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Peacebuilding’s Origins and History

      • Michael C. Pugh
      Pages 17-40

    3. Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding

      • Filip Ejdus
      Pages 41-58

    4. Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather Than Disrupts Power

      • Atalia Omer
      Pages 59-94

  5. Can Peacebuilding Be Recreated at the Centre?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries Between Private and Public

      • Nina Wilén
      Pages 207-220

    3. The Fraught Development of an International Peace Architecture

      • Oliver P. Richmond
      Pages 221-242

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 243-247
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About this book

This book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding parallels the broader story of liberalism’s rise and fall in world politics, including the attempt to remedy an ailing patient by administering a magic medicine – “the local turn”. Its contributors further write about what may come after peacebuilding as we still know it. They describe more locally rooted attempts at building peace and how they operate in the shadows of, and in an ambiguous relationship with, governmental and international peacebuilders. The book finally suggests that reports of the pending death of peacebuilding are probably premature. Peacebuilding is a resilient international practice, apt to adjust itself to a changing environment, and too important a source of legitimacy for those that wield power. 

Reviews

“Have reports of peacebuilding’s demise been ‘greatly exaggerated’, as Mark Twain wrote about his own death after the premature publication of his obituary in the press? This is one of the many questions raised by these fascinating, important, and different books. When it comes to peacebuilding, time matters … . the two books complement each other.” (Herman T. Salton, International Peacekeeping, November 6, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer

  • University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Barbara Segaert

About the editors

Barbara Segaert is Project Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium, where she develops academic programmes on various topics of contemporary relevance to society.


 


Jorg Kustermans is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He does research on the conceptual history of peace and on the shifting sources of international authority.


 


Tom Sauer is Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is specialized in international security, and more in particular in nuclear arms control, proliferation, and disarmament. He is a former BCSIA Fellow at Harvard University, USA. Sauer received the 2019 Rotary International Alumni Global Service Award.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Requiem for Peacebuilding?

  • Editors: Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Barbara Segaert

  • Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56477-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56476-6Published: 02 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56479-7Published: 03 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56477-3Published: 01 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1759-3735

  • Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Peace Studies

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