Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding
This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, its empirical applications and its consequences.
Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars tend to rely on findings in the so-called post-agreement phase of interventions. As a result, most mainstream peacebuilding literature pays limited or no attention to the linkages that exist between mediation practices in the negotiation phase and processes in the post-peace-agreement phase of intervention.
By linking the motives and practices of interveners during negotiation and implementation phases into a more integrated theoretical framework, this book makes a unique contribution to the ongoing debate on the so-called Western liberal models of peacebuilding. Drawing upon in-depth case studies from various regions of the world, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sudan, Cte dIvoire, Senegal and Sierra Leone, this innovative volume examines a variety of political motives behind third-party interventions, thus challenging the very founding concept of mediation literature.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, statebuilding, peacemaking, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.
Mikael Eriksson is a researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Institute, Stockholm.
Roland Kosti is Assistant Professor at the Hugo Valentin Centre and Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
In drawing out the ideological and other underpinnings of external involvement in peace processes, these essays contribute to an understanding of the dynamics that influence subsequent peacebuilding and the consequences for the sustainability of peace.
Michael Pugh, University of Bradford
Kosti and Eriksson provide a wide range of empirical studies on a topic that has until now been largely discussed on normative/polemical grounds, peacebuilding. The close link between these cases and their theoretical discussion makes the work exceptionally valuable.
Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh
Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kostic's work provides a thoughtful reflection on the major challenges of international mediation. A resource for researchers and practitioners alike, this book uncovers some of the key linkages between motives, actions and results in mediation processes. Looking at some of the seminal peace processes of our time, this study rightfully stresses the limits to externally imposed peace agreements. In the final analysis, durable peace requires more than just a signed agreement amongst conflict parties.
Kelvin Ong, Team Leader, Mediation Support Unit,
Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
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Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding
Peace from the ashes of war?
Edited by Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kosti
Mediation and Liberal
Peacebuilding
Peace from the ashes of war?
Edited by
Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kosti
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Mediation and liberal peacebuilding : peace from the ashes of war? /
edited by Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kostic.
p. cm. -- (Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Peace-building. 2. Mediation. 3. Reconciliation. 4. Peace.
I. Eriksson, Mikael. II. Kostic, Roland.
HV639.M43 2013
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ISBN: 978-0-415-63835-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-08405-2 (ebk)
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Contents
Contributors
Eldridge Vigil Adolfo is a Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He has worked extensively as a peacebuilding practitioner and scholar in over 16 African countries (in South, central, East and West Africa). Most recently he worked with the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) and has published research on peacebulding in post-modern conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia and the dynamics of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) within the Zimbabwean crisis.
Camilla Elowson is a Researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. Camilla's focus is on African security. At the Defence Agency Camilla has published studies on EUAfrica relations and ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) capabilities for peace and security. Her main research interest is on post-conflict processes in Western Africa.