Richmond, Oliver P. 2008. Millenium: Journal of International Studies 36, no. 3: 439-470. This text offers a strong, introductory overview of how the primary schools of International Relations conceptualize “peace”.…
Jarstad, Anna K and Louise Olsson. 2012. Global Governance 18, no. 1: 105-119. This article provides a case study of the international peacebuilding community’s emphasis on “local ownership” and its implementation in…
2021. Barcelona: Institute for Integrated Transitions. This discussion paper was published by the Barcelona-based Institute for Integrated Transitions, a non-governmental organization that seeks to establish “brain…
Gleditsch, Nils P, Jonas Nordkvelle, and Håvard Strand. 2014. Journal of Peace Research 51, no. 2: 145-158 This text traces the development of Peace Research from its origins with Johan Galtung and the Journal of Peace…
Galtung, Johan. 1969. Journal of Peace Research 6, no. 3: 167-191. This source is a pivotal text in the early field of Peace Research written by Johan Galtung, the founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the…
Ejdus, Filip. 2020. In A Requiem For Peacebuilding, edited by Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, and Barbara Segaert, 41-58. Berlin: Springer Link. This article offers an insight into one of the main doctrinal shifts adopted…
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2010. Security Dialogue 41, no. 4: 391-412. This article breaks down the creation of hybrid peace into four primary factors: the compliance powers possessed by liberal peacebuilding actors, the…
Richmond, Oliver P. 2009. Review of International Studies 35, no. 3: 557-580. This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of peace as being the…
Paris, Roland. 2002. Review of International Studies 28, no. 4: 637-656. This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of…
Von Billerbeck, Sarah B K. 2016. In Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping, edited by Sarah B K von Billerbeck, 48-77. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This article examines how the concept of…