Expectations and Experiences of Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: Parallel Peacebuilding Processes and Compound Friction

Mostar and MItrovica : constested grounds for peacebuilding

International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis

International peacebuilding can improve the prospects that a civil war will be resolved. Although peacebuilding strategies must be designed to address particular conflicts, broad parameters that fit most conflicts can be identified. Strategies should address the local roots of hostility; the local capacities for change; and the (net) specific degree of international commitment available to assi...

Thematic Paper on Peacebuilding and Service Delivery

Peacebuilding is concerned with the long-term consolidation of peace in countries that have experienced conflict, with a view to building resilience. Peacebuilding has been defined by the United Nations as ‘a range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict, to strengthen national capacities at all levels for conflict management, and to lay the foundations for...

The peacebuilding potential of healthcare training programs

Global health professionals regularly conduct healthcare trainings, such as first aid courses, in disadvantaged communities across the world. Many of these communities lack healthcare infrastructure because of war and political conflict. The authors draw on their experience conducting a first aid course in South Sudan to provide a perspective on how healthcare trainings for people with no medic...

Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Resistance or Emancipation ?

Despite the EU’s longstanding engagement in the Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is in the middle of what some local actors think is its most serious constitutional crisis since the war, Chandler (2009: 74) is right to say that BiH is an ‘inverted state’, not representative of local interests, but of external agendas. It represents the EU’s ambitions in the field of peacebuilding (Björkdah...