Rethinking Peacebuilding

Karin Aggestam is Associate Professor in Political Science and currently the director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. Annika Björkdahl is Associate Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

• Introduction: The Study of Just and Durable Peace, Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl Part I: Just Peace in Theory 1. Linking Peace and Justice in Peacemaking, Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov 2. Seizing the Middle Ground for a Just Peace: The Politics of Recognition and Reconciliation, Karin Aggestam 3. Beyond Justice versus Peace: Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding Strategies, Johanna Herman, Olga Martin-Ortega, and Chandra Lekha Sriram 4. From Peacebuilding as Resistance to Peacebuilding as Liberation, Oliver Richmond 5. Deliberating and Localizing Just Peace, Annika Björkdahl 6. Beyond Eschatology: A Non-Teleological Approach to Security, Justice and Peace, Adrian Hyde-Price 7. Justice Post Bellum and International Law, Inger Österdahl Part II: In Search for Just Peace in Practice 8. Peace Agreements, Justice and Durable Peace, Peter Wallensteen, Erik Melander and Stina Högbladh 9. Social Justice, Restorative Justice, and EU Peacebuilding in the Arab-Islamic World, Hasan Momani and Sarah Ann Rennick 10. Towards a Just Peace? Roles and Dilemmas of EU Peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine, Anders Persson 11. Representations of Peace in the EU Peacebuilding Approach in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Stefanie Kappler 12. Transitional Justice in the Quest for a Just and Durable Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Olga Martin-Ortega Conclusion: The Quest for Just Peace: Rethinking Peacebuilding in Theory and Practice, Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl

"This book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and practitioners interested in better understanding the notion of ‘just peace’. The particulars of the case studies will speak most clearly to scholars and practitioners concerned with Israel-Palestine and Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially those working from within an EU context. However, the theoretical contributions made in the introduction and part 1 of the volume, and the lessons gleaned from part 2, have much broader applicability. This book is therefore important reading for anyone concerned with better understanding the relationship between peace and justice, and the changing nature of contemporary peacebuilding." - Christina Woolner, University of Hargeisa, Somliland