Requiem for Peacebuilding?

Barbara Segaert is Project Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium, where she develops academic programmes on various topics of contemporary relevance to society. Jorg Kustermans is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He does research on the conceptual history of peace and on the shifting sources of international authority. Tom Sauer is Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is specialized in international security, and more in particular in nuclear arms control, proliferation, and disarmament. He is a former BCSIA Fellow at Harvard University, USA. Sauer received the 2019 Rotary International Alumni Global Service Award.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Peacebuilding’s Predicament: A Dark Mood among the Experts.-PART I: Why Peacebuilding Appears Moribund.- Chapter 2: Peacebuilding’s Origins and History.- Chapter 3: Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding.- Chapter 4: Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather than Disrupts Power.- PART II: How Peacebuilding Takes Shape in the Margins.- Chapter 5: The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge.- Chapter 6: Old and New Peace in El Salvador. How Peace Strategies Emerge, Disappear, and Transform.- Chapter 7: Land and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Peacebuilding Process in Colombia through the Peasant Reserve Zones.- Chapter 8: Peacebuilding and Resistance: Inequality, Empowerment, Refusal.- PART III: Can Peacebuilding Be Recreated at the Centre?.- Chapter 9: Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public.- Chapter 10: The Fraught Development of an International Peace Architecture.

“Have reports of peacebuilding’s demise been ‘greatly exaggerated’, as Mark Twain wrote about his own death after the premature publication of his obituary in the press? This is one of the many questions raised by these fascinating, important, and different books. When it comes to peacebuilding, time matters … . the two books complement each other.” (Herman T. Salton, International Peacekeeping, November 6, 2023)