This study aims at the debate of promoting peace and achieving justice in conflict-prone
countries. The debate's core is whether justice should be traded for peacemaking. Whether …

This book investigates why peace and reform processes across the world have recently
been stagnating or have become blocked. They have failed to maintain security, rights …

States which encounter massive human rights violations usually implement various
mechanisms of achieving accountability. There exists documented evidence of conflict …

This chapter explores why and how revisionist actors escalate their counter-peace tactics
into systemic challenges to the international peace architecture. In particular, it explores how …

In recent decades, a large literature on state failure has emerged. However, it is difficult to
say that there has been a significant development in the theoretical framework of the subject …

Abstract The Central African Republic has been entangled in new cycles of conflict since the
upsurge of the Seleka insurgency in December 2012. Although a number of reasons …

Since the adoption of the Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325 in 2000, two
decades of reporting on conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) have …

This introduction outlines the book's main argument that peace processes across the world
have become systematically blocked in the post-Cold War era, indicating the emergence of …

In recent decades, a large literature on state failure has emerged. However, it is difficult to
say that there has been a significant development in the theoretical framework of the subject …

Can minor powers in the Global South derive benefits from the current competitive world
order? Conventional research posits that minor powers can swing between major power …