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  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Edited by Cedric De Coning, Linnéa Gelot, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation

    Edited by Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream approaches – presenting both conceptual and empirical content. This volume offers a variety of original and insightful contributions to the debates grappling with the adoption of complexity thinking ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The BRICS and Coexistence

    An Alternative Vision of World Order

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Thomas Mandrup, Liselotte Odgaard ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies. However, these countries identified with the BRIC concept, and started to meet annually as a group in 2008. At their fourth summit in 2011, they added South Africa to become the BRICS. By then the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • UN Peacebuilding Architecture

    The First 10 Years

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Eli Stamnes ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    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 can be modified and utilized to create more synergy and fusion between the UN's peace and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era

    Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Chiyuki Aoi, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    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 and scope of these changes have now reached a tipping point, as the new mandates are ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism

    A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex drivers of violent extremism, along with recommendations for strengthening social and institutional resilience through peacebuilding and development efforts.By presenting a theoretical and empirical argument that places the emphasis on social cohesion, resilience, and adaptive peacebuilding, this book challenges the conventional security-led ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Peacebuilding

    A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, Ako Muto ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to ... Read more

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  • Rising Powers and Peacebuilding

    Breaking the Mold?

    Edited by Charles T Call, Cedric de Coning ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the rising powers towards peacebuilding may significantly influence how the UN and others undertake peacebuilding in the future. ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Mateja Peter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm shift. It is essential material for enhancing one’s understanding of the nature of international conflict and for the continued relevance of the UN as a key stakeholder and ... Read more

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  • Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power

    Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge

    by Victor Teo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and foreign relations. Rather than viewing the process of normalization and rejuvenation as two decades of remilitarization in face of rapidly changing strategic environment and domestic political circumstances, this volume contextualizes Japan’s contemporary ... Read more

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