Peacebuilding Paradigms
The Impact of Theoretical Diversity on Implementing Sustainable Peace

Peacebuilding is explained by combining interpretive frameworks (paradigms) that have evolved from the subfields of international relations and comparative politics.

Henry F. Carey (Edited by)

9781108483728, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 December 2020

250 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.76 kg

Peacebuilding Paradigms focuses on how seven paradigms from the Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Policy Analysis subfields - Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism, Cosmopolitanism, Critical Theories, Locality, and Policy - analyze peacebuilding. The contributors explore the arguments of each paradigm, and then compare and contrast them. This book suggests that a hybrid approach that incorporates useful insights from each of these paradigms best explains how and why peacebuilding projects and policies succeed in some cases, fail in others, and provide lessons learned. Rather than merely using a theoretical approach, the authors use case studies to demonstrate why a focus on just one paradigm alone as an explanatory model is insufficient. This collection directly at how peacebuilding theory affects peacebuilding policies, and provides recommendations for best practices for future peacebuilding missions.

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword George Lopez
Introduction: bridging the conceptual and theoretical divides on peace and peacebuilding Henry F. Carey and Onur Sen
Part I. The Realist Paradigm: 1. Strategies for peace Michael Fowler
2. Realism, rationalism, and peace: a top-down and a staged perspective Norrin M. Ripsman
3. Building peace through social relationships: a primatological perspective Sarah F. Brosnan
Part II. The Liberal Paradigm: 4. Liberal peacebuilding: bringing domestic politics back in Louis-Alexandre Berg
5. Conflict prevention and management I. William Zartman
Part III. The Constructivist Paradigm: 6. The social construction of peacebuilding Brandon Howe
7. Generations of constructing peace: the constructivism paradigm and peacebuilding Erin McCandless and Timothy Donais
Part IV. The Cosmopolitan Paradigm: 8. A pluralist cosmopolitanism for the 21st century Richard A. Falk
9. The international law of peace Henry F. Carey and Rebecca Sims
10. Islamic Gnosticism and peace: a paradigmatic shift in pursuit of peace Farid Mirbagheri
Part V. The Critical Theory Paradigm: 11. Critical approaches to peacebuilding Jacob Mundy
12. A new paradigm: engendered-sustainable peace and security Úrsula Oswald Spring and Stacey M. Mitchell
13. From Scylla to Charybdis? The risks and opportunities of digital peacebuilding Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
Part VI: The Locality Paradigm: 14. Envisioning peace/transforming conflict: a global approach to peace Sabine Kurtenbach
15. Paradigm partners for locally grounded peacebuilding John Hoven
16. Cultural peacebuilding Aigul Kulnazarova
Part VII. The Policy Paradigm: 17. Peacebuilding paradigm from the perspective of policy approach: its outline through comparison Chigumi Kawaguchi and Josuke Ikeda
18. A bottom-up view at peacebuilding: pragmatism, public opinion and the individual as unit of analysis in post-conflict societies Ridvan Peshkopia
19. Conclusion: a hybrid approach to understanding peacebuilding Henry F. Carey and Stacey M. Mitchell
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International human rights law [LBBR], Human rights [JPVH], International relations [JPS]