Highlights•Civil society plays different roles in urban sustainability transitions beyond civil
advocacy.•Civil society is increasingly recognized as a cog for sustainability transitions.•Civil …

This article undertakes a critical assessment of the local turn in critical peacebuilding
scholarship. It comes to the conclusion that the local turn is hampered by a binary and …

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment
has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it …

All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a
common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization …

Is peace more likely to prevail when the peace accord includes civil society actors such as
religious groups, women's organizations, and human rights groups? This is the first …

Civil society is generally seen as an important actor in peace processes. But when it comes
to reaching an agreement during peace negotiations, much of the current debate is centered …

Participation of citizens in political decision making is a core concept of functioning
democracies. Civil society has therefore tremendously important roles to play within …

This article examines how peacebuilding theory has influenced the shift from the
international to the 'local'in the practice of international peacebuilding and analyses the …

The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of
Bosnian state practices since the Dayton Peace Agreement. Jeffrey presents new and …

This study examines two ways by which education might affect the probability of civil war
onset. First, educational investment provides a strong signal to the people that the …