In November 2007 Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern
Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It …

Dominant narratives and theories developed at the turn of the 21st century in order to
account for civil wars in Africa converged around the idea that this upsurge in violence was …

This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its
preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace …

Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity comprehensively analyzes the full
range of the transitional justice processes undertaken for the Rwandan genocide. Drawing …

UN peace missions are constantly evolving. Yet, we lack a detailed understanding of the
shifting types and objectives of peace missions beyond broad categorizations that …

This paper examines how fragile Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is and whether it is indeed
in danger of collapsing, as significant amount of academic literature often claims. The …

Rebuilding institutional legitimacy is considered essential for stability in postconflict
societies, yet the factors that influence citizen perceptions of legitimacy in this context remain …

The debate on peacebuilding is deadlocked. Leading scholars of 'fourth generation'
peacebuilding, who take Liberalism to task for creating what they refer to as crises in …

Security, economic recovery, democracy and statebuilding are seen as tenets of post-conflict
peacebuilding in the academic literature. In Rwanda, 15 years of post-genocide peace were …

Contemporary policy-making guided by the 'liberal peace'holds that peace is necessary for
states to emerge, and that peace-building and state-building do not only go in tandem, but …