Micro-evidence for Peacebuilding Theories and Policies

Yuichi Kubota is Associate Professor at Department of Political Science and Economics, College of Law, Nihon University in Tokyo. His research interests include civil conflict, peacebuilding, public opinion, and political economy of development in Asia. He is the author of Armed Groups in Cambodian Civil War: Territorial Control, Rivalry, and Recruitment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He has published articles on civil-military relations in armed conflict, patterns of political violence, and sociopolitical attitude of civilians in post-conflict societies in journals such as Asian Survey, International Studies Review, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, World Development. He received his Ph.D. in political science from University at Albany (State University of New York).

• Introduction: Empirics for Peacebuilding.- In the Eye of the Peacebuilder: International and Local Perceptions of Peacebuilding.- Success and Failure in Kosovo and Timor-Leste.- Resilience against Everyday Disillusion: Voices for Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Wartime Violence, Risk/Time Preferences, and Post-conflict Sociopolitical Participation: Evidence from Northwestern Pakistan.- Micro-Evidence from Participatory Conflict Analysis: Toward Context-Specific and  Adaptive Peacebuilding in Mozambique.- Conclusion: Theoretical and Policy Implications.