Tag: peacebuilding

Roundtable 10-24 on Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding

March 25, 2019March 28, 2019 By Naazneen H. Barma, Susanna P. Campbell, Dan Honig, Roger Mac Ginty, Joshua Rovner, Catherine Weaver

What it takes to forge peace in conflict-affected societies is an enduring source of debate for scholars in peace studies and comparative politics. It is also a source of dispute among peacebuilding organizations, their country offices, and local stakeholders. In Global Governance and Local Peace, Susanna P. Campbell explores this complicated and sometimes contentious relationship,…

Review Essay on The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding

September 14, 2017September 10, 2017 By Ingrid Samset

Catherine Goetze’s The Distinction of Peace is an important book. It breaks new ground in viewing peacebuilding as a field, and analyzing what attracts people to it and what enables some of them to remain. It contributes to research agendas on interventions in conflict zones, power in international encounters, and peacebuilding as a form of…