Scrutinising UN peacebuilding: entangled peace and its limits

Re-engineering the UN Peacebuilding Architecture

At the 2005 World Summit in New York City, member states of the United Nations agreed to create " a dedicated institutional mechanism to address the special needs of countries emerging from conflict towards recovery, reintegration and reconstruction and to assist them in laying the foundation for sustainable development ". That new mechanism was the UN Peacebuilding Commission and two associate...

“Public Administration meets Peacebuilding” Peace Operations as Political and Managerial Challenges

1 1 Principal drafters: Till Blume and Julian Junk, under the lead of Wolfgang Seibel – who is also heading the overall project – and with the assistance of Florian Roth and Johannes Cherbuliez. We are grateful to Susanna Pfohl Campbell, who provided her notes of the conference. David Antal proved invaluable for the finalization of this report. explored two largely neglected aspects of United N...

Evaluating Multilateral Interventions in Civil Wars: A Comparison of UN and Non-UN Peace Operations

Legitimacy, impartiality, and technical expertise and are often thought to be key components of United Nations peace operations, ones that enable the UN to “get the job done” and that non-UN interventions lack. Based on an ecological model of peacebuilding, however, we expect there to be no inherent difference between the effectiveness of UN and non-UN operations. Using a comprehensive dataset ...

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Th e Impact of Spoilers on Peace Processes and Peacebuilding M ceasefires and peace agreements in civil wars are initially unsuccessful and give way to renewed violence. In other cases, peace processes have become interminably protracted: lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare and even if agreements are reached they falter at the implementation phase. State-building and...

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