Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding / edited by Roger Mac Ginty.

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English
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Second edition.
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  • Abingdon, England ; New York : Routledge, [2025]
  • ©2025
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This updated and revised second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding contains cutting-edge analyses of contemporary attempts to reach and sustain peace.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Intro
  • Endorsements
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Trends in Peacebuilding
  • Institutional Growth but Lowering Political Interest
  • Rise of Authoritarian Conflict Management
  • Fewer Comprehensive Peace Accords
  • A Broadening Scope of Peacebuilding
  • A Growing Understanding of the Links Between Conflict Drivers
  • Greater Emphasis on Mediation
  • A Recognition of the Importance of Inclusion in Peacebuilding
  • A Greater Emphasis on Measuring Peacebuilding
  • A Rising Interest in PeaceTech
  • The Organisation of the Book
  • References
  • Part I: Peacebuilding Architecture and Actors
  • 1. The Evolution of Peacebuilding
  • The Origin and Evolution of the Concept of Peacebuilding
  • The Evolution of Peacebuilding Turns
  • The Liberal Turn
  • The Hybrid Turn
  • The Local Turn
  • Other Interdisciplinary Turns
  • The Evolution of Peacebuilding Nexuses
  • The Peacebuilding, Security, and Development Nexus
  • Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding Nexus
  • Women, Peace, and Security Nexus
  • Climate Change, Peace, and Security Nexus
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The International Architecture of Peacebuilding
  • The Actors of International Peacebuilding
  • The Coordination Challenge
  • The Peacebuilding Architecture and Doctrine: Beyond Coordination
  • Building Peace or International Security?
  • Sustainable Peace
  • 3. Women, Peace, and Security
  • WPS and Participation
  • WPS and Protection
  • WPS and Prevention
  • WPS and Relief and Recovery
  • Shortcomings and Future Directions
  • 4. Civil Society and Peacebuilding
  • Political Origins and the Evolution of (a) Civil Society
  • Civil Society and Liberal Peacebuilding
  • Civil Society and Critical Peacebuilding.
  • Case Study: Peacebuilding and Civil Society in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
  • 5. 'Illiberal Peacebuilding' and Authoritarian Conflict Management
  • Significance
  • Critiques
  • 6. Unusual Peacebuilders
  • Theorizing Unofficial and Unusual Actors in Peacebuilding
  • Which Actors?
  • Journalists
  • Religious Leaders
  • Businesspeople
  • Diaspora Members
  • Women Activists
  • Former Leaders
  • Academics
  • The Debate
  • Conclusions
  • Note
  • Part II: Reading Peacebuilding
  • 7. Problem-Solving and Critical Approaches
  • The Significance of Critique
  • Problem-Solving Modes in Peacebuilding Debates
  • UNDP Breaking the Mold?
  • Institution-Building
  • Managing Neoliberal Pathways
  • Peace Architecture
  • Contours of Peacebuilding and Global Distress
  • 8. The Limits of Peacebuilding
  • Liberal International Paths to Peace and Their Limitations
  • Limitations in Applying Social-Psychology to Peacebuilding
  • Origins: Allport's Contact Hypothesis
  • Pre-negotiation and Transformation of Elite Perception
  • Bottom-up Approaches and People-to-People (P2P) Programs
  • Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Peacebuilding
  • Restoring Political Realism to Peacebuilding
  • 9. A Postcolonial Reading of "Peace from Below
  • Towards Postcolonial Peace
  • Postcolonial Critiques of Traditional Peace Studies
  • Gandhi and Champaran: From "Local" to "National
  • Bacha Khan: The Nonviolent Pashtun Peacemaker
  • Postcolonial Futures of Peace
  • 10. African Perspectives on Peacebuilding
  • Shifting Dynamics of Liberal and Critical Paradigms
  • African Perspectives to Peacebuilding: Nearer or Further from Homegrown Paradigm(s)?.
  • Conclusion: What Prospects for a "Homegrown" African Peacebuilding Paradigm?
  • Notes
  • 11. Agonistic Peacebuilding
  • Transformation as Agonistic Praxis
  • Ontological (In)security
  • Agonistic Recognition
  • Agonistic Dialogue
  • Embodied Practices of Transforming
  • Agonistic Peacebuilders
  • Part III: Issues and Approaches
  • 12. Sustaining Peace through Social Contracts
  • Sustaining Peace
  • Competing Perspectives on Sustaining Peace
  • Sustaining Peace and the UN - Old Wine in a New Bottle?
  • Social Contracts and Sustaining Peace
  • Evolution of Critical Social Contract Thought on Social Contracts and Peace
  • Rising Attention to Contexts Affected by Conflict and Fragility
  • Social Contract Revival in Policy for 'Better' Social Contracts
  • Sustaining Peace through Social Contracts: Problem Solving, Critical, Liberal and Beyond
  • 13. Gender and Peacebuilding
  • Feminist Approaches to International Relations
  • Gender and War
  • Gender and Peace
  • Feminist Responses
  • Understanding Gendered Agency in War and Peace
  • Conclusion: Importance of Integrating Gender Justice into Peacebuilding
  • 14. Religion and Peacebuilding
  • Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding: Mapping the Field and Main Debates
  • In Lieu of Conclusion: Religion and Peacebuilding
  • 15. Climate Change and Peacebuilding
  • The Relationship between Climate Change, Conflict and Peacebuilding
  • Pathways to Climate-Related Insecurity
  • Climate Change and Peacebuilding
  • Environmental Peacebuilding
  • Adaptive Peacebuilding
  • 16. Emotions, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding
  • Emotions and Reconciliation.
  • Emotions as Socio-political Forces
  • Fear, Anger and Resentment after Conflict
  • Recasting Emotional Reconciliation
  • Legitimising Compassion and Empathy
  • Conclusion: The Ongoing Challenge of Emotional Reconciliation
  • 17. Memory, Politics and Peace
  • Understanding Collective Memory and Peace
  • The Politics of Memory and Peace
  • Acknowledgment of Opposing Narratives: Hegemonic Voices Prevail
  • Suppressing and Undermining Rituals and Expressions
  • Vernacular Memory and Peace
  • 18. Storytelling and Peacebuilding
  • Storytelling: A Research Practice and a Lifestyle
  • Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Contextual Insights from the South
  • Storytelling in Post-accord Societies
  • Storytelling: A Coping Mechanism and Tool for (Re)connection
  • 19. Mediation and Peacebuilding
  • Mediation's Measurement Challenge
  • Mediation's Current Global Status
  • Mediation's Modern Challenges and How It Deals with It
  • Power
  • Challenge Described
  • Current Response
  • Neutrality
  • Inclusion
  • Global North/Global South Division
  • Conflict Gender Roles and WPS Problems
  • Professionalization of Mediation
  • Technology
  • Areas of Improvement
  • 20. Trauma and Peacebuilding
  • Defining Peacebuilding and Trauma
  • Collective Trauma
  • Responding to Trauma as a Vital Component in Peacebuilding
  • Responding to Trauma in Peacebuilding
  • Feminist and Anthropological Positions
  • Debating the Western Orientation of Trauma Responses.
  • Stigma and Language of Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
  • Local Implementation
  • Integrating Basic Needs
  • Part IV: Violence and Security
  • 21. Security Sector Reform
  • The Development of International SSR Frameworks
  • SSR in Post-Conflict Contexts
  • Phases in Conducting SSR
  • Linking SSR to Peacebuilding Processes
  • The Future of SSR
  • 22. Disarmament, Demobilisation, Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Repatriation in Africa
  • DDRRR in Complex Environments: Conceptual and Practical Implications
  • Disarmament
  • Demobilisation
  • Rehabilitation
  • Reintegration
  • Repatriation
  • Protection of Civilians
  • Community Violence Reduction
  • Transitional Weapons and Ammunition Management
  • Women, Peace and Security Agenda
  • Youth, Peace and Security Agenda
  • 23. Violence Reduction and Peacebuilding
  • Peacebuilding
  • Violence Prevention
  • Peacebuilding and Violence Prevention: What Does This All Mean for Our World Today?
  • 24. Zones of Peace
  • Sanctuary Defined: A ZoPs Typology
  • In the Midst of Violence
  • Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
  • As Peace Implementation
  • The Struggle for Sanctuary
  • Internal Challenges
  • External Realities
  • Beyond Sanctuary
  • Peacebuilding and Development
  • Agency vs. Ownership
  • Procedural Justice and Legitimacy
  • 25. Community Self-Protection in Colombia
  • Neither War Nor Peace in Colombia
  • Self-Protection Strategies During the Armed Conflict and the Transition to Peace in Colombia
  • Territorial and Spatial Delimitations
  • Humanitarian Zones, Spaces, and Shelters
  • Agro-Food Peasant Territories, Peasants, and Biodiverse Reserve Areas.
  • Territorial Reincorporation Spaces (ETCRs).
ISBN
  • 1-04-010440-1
  • 1-003-29340-9
  • 1-04-010443-6
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