This article explores the application of complexity theory to UN peacekeeping. To date,
peacekeeping has been dominated by linear models of change, assuming that conflict …

The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and
practical challenges to the UN's role in global governance and international conflict …

Mary Anderson published her seminal book Do No Harm: How aid can support peace–or
war in 1999, which popularised the idea of conflict sensitivity in development, humanitarian …

Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states,
in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed or fragile states. This worldview has …

United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and the Stimson Center, with the
support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, undertook this project to translate the core …

This article examines the contributions of police to the Protection of Civilians (PoC) in United
Nations (UN) peace operations. Drawing on field research in four missions where police …

United Nations police (UNPOL) have become increasingly important to operational
effectiveness of peace operations. For some time, their contribution to re-establishing the …

Nations, defined as groups that share a sense of identity, based on ethnic, religious, or
cultural characteristics, tend toward the creation of their own state as a means to achieve full …

This article develops a new framework for the analysis of international policing. We argue
that attention to the historical dynamics that shape international policing challenges not only …

This thesis presents a development of the concept of post-liberalism to analyse processes of
statebuilding in Central Asia by the example of Kyrgyzstan from a decolonial angle. Recent …