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 Journal for Peace Research. It outlines Galtung’s visualization of…
This article offers an insight into one of the main doctrinal shifts adopted by international organizations and states in light of the continued failures of externally-imposed peacebuilding efforts – the “local turn”.…
This article echoes a larger scholarly debate about The Copenhagen School – also known as the securitization theory. See this bibliographic resource: Wæver (1995). To some extent, it defends and improves the theory to…
This text explores the concept of an everyday peace, the routinized practices and interactions that bridge gaps in divided communities. It analyzes a series of everyday peace case studies and explores the use of these…
This article further develops the concept of “local ownership” in international peacebuilding efforts and assesses the feasibility of a complementary relationship between indigenous and external practice of…
This article breaks down the creation of hybrid peace into four primary factors: the compliance powers possessed by liberal peacebuilding actors, the incentivizing powers of the liberal peace (particularly with regards…
This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of peace as being the result of top-down, externally imposed systems of democratic political and…
This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of particular note is the historical parallel drawn between the colonial-era…
This article examines how the concept of local ownership is interpreted in different visualizations of peace, ranging from the narrow scope of participation in liberal peacebuilding to communitarian peacebuilding’s…
This text analyzes the shortfalls of the international peacebuilding effort in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011. It draws on survey data from studies conducted by Science Po to highlight that, contrary to popular belief,…