1st Edition

International Peacebuilding An introduction

By Alpaslan Ozerdem, SungYong Lee Copyright 2016
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

International Peacebuilding offers a concise, practical and accessible introduction to the growing field of peacebuilding for students and practitioners. This new textbook comprises three parts, each dealing with a key aspect of peacebuilding: Part I defines the core concepts and theoretical discussions that provide the philosophical grounds for contemporary peacebuilding activities.... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Concepts and Theories of Peacebuilding 1. Armed Conflict and Peace 2. The Peace Process 3. Liberal Peacebuilding Model  Part II: Three Phases on Peacebuilding 4. Conflict Resolution 5. Post-conflict Reconstruction 6. Conflict Transformation  Part III: The Practice of Peacebuilding 7. Political and Security Reconstruction 8. Socioeconomic Peacebuilding 9. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Conclusions

Biography

Alpaslan Özerdem is professor of peacebuilding and co-director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. He is the author/editor of numerous titles, including most recently Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding: Mobilization, Reintegration and Reconciliation (Palgrave, 2015).

SungYong Lee is lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is co-editor of Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding: Key Theoretical and Practical Issues (Routledge, 2015).