Over the past two decades, the European Union (EU) has become increasingly involved in
preventing conflict and promoting sustainable peace beyond its borders. The EU's potential …

Attempts to explain the failure to reform the security sectors in post-conflict countries have
often resorted to two sets of explanatory factors: international and local factors. This article …

In this article, we examine reconciliation as a category of political practice. More particularly,
we explore the ways in which the term reconciliation has been employed and invested with …

In contrast to most studies addressing security sector reform (SSR) in Africa, this article
queries defence reform efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from a …

This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance in the West Bank and
examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of …

This article investigates legitimacy of EU state building and conflict resolution as a
continuous and collective process through which local stakeholders, as the direct bearers of …

This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in
the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do …

How does China's rising presence in Nepal affect the European Union's own peacebuilding
efforts in the country? As a global peace and security actor, the EU has followed the liberal …

Intellectuals, particularly within Western societies, occupy privileged positions which enable
them to scrutinize the actions of those in power–having the time, expertise, and resources to …

How is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking
sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in …