The Elusive Coherence of Building Peace

This groundbreaking book brings the insights of organization and public administration theories to the analysis and enhancement of complex peace operations. Focusing on three essential and interrelated aspects of organizations—coordination, learning, and leadership—the authors bridge the gap between...

Peace Enforcement in Africa: Doctrinal distinctions between the African Union and United Nations

When the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to authorize a peace enforcement operation in Africa, its partner of choice is the African Union (AU). Africa has developed significant peace operations capacity over the past decade. In addition to deploying eight AU operations, Africa now contributes...

Can the AU finance its own peace operations, and if so, what would the impact be?

UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era: Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats

This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The pace...

Introduction: Addressing the Emerging Gap between Concepts, Doctrine and Practice in UN Peacekeeping Operations

This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The pace...

Conclusion: Towards a United Nations stabilization doctrine—stabilization as an emerging UN practice

This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The pace...

The BRICS: The Last Line of Defence for Globalisation?

In the West, the rise of nationalist populism reached a tipping point in 2016 when it generated both the United Kingdom vote for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as President in the United States of America. In contrast, the BRICS have over this same period invested in strengthening their commitment...

Crisis response and peace operations in Africa

Implications of Complexity for Peacebuilding Policies and Practices

Why Consider New Approaches to Peacebuilding and Evaluation, and Why Turn to Complexity for Answers?

Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation

This book addresses the core dilemma that practitioners have to confront: how to function in situations that are fast changing and complex, when equipped with tools designed for neither? How do we reconcile the tension between the use of linear causal logic and the dynamic political transitions that...

Conclusion

Protecting civilians: comparing organisational approaches

Introduction: Assessing the impact of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture

The future of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture

UN Peacebuilding Architecture: The First 10 Years

Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the PBA during its first decade in existence, and generates innovative recommendations for how the architecture...

Civil-Military Interaction: Rationale, Possibilities and Limitations

Future of African Peace Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram

Peace Capacities Network Synthesis Report: Rising Powers and Peace Operations

This report presents the research of the Peace Capacities Network into the policies and roles of a select group of so-called ‘rising powers’ in international peace operations and UN peacekeeping reform. The case studies are from Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Norway, Russia, South Africa and...

From peacebuilding to sustaining peace: Implications of complexity for resilience and sustainability