Calls for a greater inclusion of local actors have featured for some time in debates on how to
make humanitarian action more efficient and address unequal power relations within the …

Recent critical perspectives on peacebuilding have sought to shed light on experiences so
far marginalized by mainstream approaches. In particular, critics have pushed …

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 …

Critical Peace and Conflict Studies scholars have increasingly sought to overcome binary
approaches to engage more fully the ways in which peacebuilding missions are designed …

The past two decades have witnessed myriad 'turns' in peacebuilding scholarship. This
article explores these 'turns' and questions their influence on peacebuilding practice …

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 …

We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in
Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace …

The notion of conflict disruption is proposed as an addition to the established conflict
response framework of conflict management, resolution and transformation. Drawing on …

Conflicts relating to chieftaincy succession are recurrent among some monarchies in Ghana,
and scholars have extensively debated their causes, resolution, and peacebuilding …

The direct protection of civilians from the violence and harms of armed conflict is most often
understood in fixed, identity-centred terms: of what protection is, where it is located, of who …